All that matters

This is my first post (Letter A) for the A to Z Challenge. As I try to get back to blogging, this post is more as a note to myself. 

No matter how others see you or think about you, all that matters is how you treat yourself and what you think about yourself. 

You are the one who is responsible for your happiness or even sadness

You are the only one who can take care of yourself best

No one can hurt you without you giving them that right. 

No one else can make you happy if you cannot be happy in your own company.

You cannot change or influence what others think about you if you yourself do not have the capability to accept and appreciate who you are.

Each person is different and so are the circumstances surrounding each one of us.

So instead of looking at glass as half empty, try to change the perspective and look at it as half full.

And this new outlook will change the way how you experience and embrace things in life.

And do this, not for anyone else,but just for yourself

Because again,

All that matters is YOU.

My singing buddy

Did it ever happen to you in life that one thing which you really love to do and wanted to share it with someone close in your life, it turns out your better half has an exact opposite taste on that?
Well, it happened to me.

I just love music, and not just listening, but also humming along with it, or as Puja said in Lamhe "main ga kahan rahi thi, main to gungunaa rahi thi"
And S has totally opposite taste when it comes to music. In terms of choice of songs, on the level of volume at which I like to hear, everything. And if I try to hum the songs while they are playing, he can think of the all sorts of parodies for those songs just to tease me.

So when li'l A came in my life, as a part of my daily routine of putting him to bed, every night I used to sing him one of my favorite songs. And one of those songs has been "Halke halke aayee chalke" from Movie Apne Paraye.
What I never realized is, that over so many nights, hearing those songs over and over, A also picked up those songs. And a few weeks back, when I started singing the song for him, he started singing with me, in his sweet cute voice.
Ever since then, it has been our kind of daily routine. Every night, he'll pick up one of the songs he wants to sing.
So, now my li'l A is my new singing buddy.
And my day ends with a smile on my face..
Never realized such small things can bring so big happiness in life ...
dil se..

PS: Just in case you are interested, here's the song I mentioned. I just love this song, the way it was picturized on Shabana. I specially memorized the lyrics of this song, so I could sing it to A:



PS: Also read Sara's post here about her budding writer.