100 Days of Happiness – Day 17

It’s easy to find sadness each day, but to find a moment of happiness is difficult. Last year, I couldn’t bring myself to finish the 100 Days of Happiness challenge. This year, I am more determined to finish it — Counting down to 2016 with Happiness!

The Happiness of a Playing Carom

100 Days of Happiness – Day 17

I’ve never been much of a sportsperson. In primary school, I used to positively hate the sports period and try to make up excuses to miss it. I guess it was influenced by those TV shows where children would get a note to get out of gym class.

My favorite game to date remains badminton. The first time I picked up a racquet, I played so poorly, I thought I’d be laughed at, but I had these wonderful neighbors, who would put a net from my home to theirs across the road and play badminton every Sunday. They pulled me in, and I began to improve and love it more. Another game that I had a bad start with was carom. I remember fighting with my father when he put the red coin before me. But I persisted, and soon became almost as good as him.

Happiness is playing a game of carom during the lunch break at office. At times I win a lot of games, but I lose a lot of games too. But in a hectic day, the game comes as a breather, and helps me to focus on the day ahead as well.

(© 9^th October 2015)

Vinay Leo R.

Poetry & writing to me are to me, a breath of fresh air in a life that is sometimes covered by the smoke of sorrow or self doubt. They also become the sweets I share to celebrate when life offers me a reason to. But most of all, they are to me, my life. For each word I write is a piece of my heart, a thought that just had to find its way into the world.