What Is This Happiness Anyways?

           For a long time, I had yearned to witness snowfall. I have had almost given up on the idea after having my hopes and wishes to see it at Auli were squashed. But Mother Nature had a better idea, and a very good one at that!

             I discovered Dean Village, an 800-year-old former milling village, while looking for "must-see offbeat places to see in Edinburgh." 

             After getting off the bus ,I had to walk towards the village for about 30 minutes  while doing so I was listening to Nikhil Banerjee's Natbhairav and was synchronising each step of mine to the beat of teentaal. I also watched people getting ready for their commutes to work and enjoyed the charm of the old, rustic buildings. 

                After coming across half a dozen coffee shops and lamenting the lack of good tea options. I remiscined to the good old chai point days in Bengaluru, and after noticing that markets had increased by half a percent, I wondered what kind of idiotic deranged retard would invest at this level.I was lost in my own thoughts the entire time I was walking.

          The village being an offbeat location had a sparse audience, and as I got closer to it, I started  struggling  to keep up with the drop in temperature as my pullovers gave in.

         As I walked through the bylanes of the village, seemingly out of thin air  I spotted a few little ice flakes that quickly intensified into a barrage of snow fall and within five minutes whole of the ground  was snow clad.

         I stood there. awestruck. trying to process the whole drama the cosmos was setting up for me.

          At the beginning of the year I didn't even had a passport and now I'm at one of the most picturesque spots on the other side of earth fulfilling a major bucket list. 

          Life at times feels strange. After going through unprecedented chaos over past year now I am at peace and contended.

        As I grow older the writings of Viktor Frankl is making more and more sense to me and I leave you all with my favourite quote 

For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.

Cheers!  Happy Holidays...