The Chained Soul

In the cage of your own pre-conceived notions lies your frightened soul, desperate to free itself from the enclosure. Let it break free and go away, go away and just be…

Let it fly like a free bird in the clear blue sky
Let it thrive on music and hum along
Let it swim the deepest oceans and hike the highest mountains
Let it travel the untrodden path
Let it walk the bylanes of small hidden villages
Let it breathe the air of foreign land
Let it imagine and go places
Let it soak in the sun of early summer mornings
Let it learn a new language
Let it feel the sand of pristine white beaches
Let it read and soak up everything ever written
Let it raft through the rivers and dive from the cliff high above
Let it meet happy new faces
Let it walk through the green meadows and dense forests
Let it witness the awakening of the world
Let it gasp in the beauty of crimson red skies during sunset
Let it relish the tranquil silence and savor nothingness
Let it learn from its trivial mistakes
Let it sleep under a star-lit sky
Let it exude gratitude and humbleness
Let it experience the adrenaline rush
Let it cease to just exist and start living; living like it owns the world
Let it get lost...

Current mood: Keep calm and meditate!

Happiness in the little things

Every single day, we live our lives, oblivious to the small things that happen around us. Many a times we choose to ignore them but there is so much bliss that the little things can give us that it can be quite overwhelming sometimes. Here are a few (Well, okay! Not few) little things that can make you happy just by their mere existence or occurrence; all we need to do is acknowledge them, by all our five senses.

1. Chirping of a bird
2. Smell of first rain
3. Rains
4. Music playing out of nowhere
5. Smiling children
6. A baby’s hand wrapped around your finger
7. Soulful music
8. Happy old people
9. Love
10. Friendship
11. Beautiful weather
12. The smell of babies
13. Inspiring happy quotes appearing randomly
14. Colors (bright and beautiful)
15. A long drive
16. With a loved one, maybe
17. Friend calling just to say hello
18. The smell of perfectly-cooked food
19. Daddy’s concern
20. Mother’s care
21. The sight of a place holding fond memories
22. Nature
23. Bumping into an old friend
24. Knowing how much they have changed, for good
25. A smile from someone you just helped a little
26. Or maybe a little more
27. A good book
28. Walk through the meadows
29. On the beach
30. Just a walk
31. Family time
32. Old pictures

While I try to compile this happy list, it comes to me that there are so many things that can brighten your soul in just the least of time, all you need is to know how to appreciate and enjoy its power to give to you. Maybe there is a lot more to add to this one, next blog maybe, maybe…

Arijit Singh’s soulful performance plugged in and loving every bit of it :) 

A behind-time Introduction

A shout out to all you fellow individuals on the blogger-sphere. I know this is a tad too late but it had to come.
This is Richa here and my Twitter bio right now reads, 'Happy Writer. Creativity breather. Sapiosexual. Mad dancer. Panipuri lover. Tuneless Singer. True Leo. Adventure Seeker. Grammar Nazi. Social Media bird.'
These 20 words quite perfectly explain the whole of me. I love to write. Love everything that involves creativity. Intelligence really is a very big turn-on. Dance is a form of expression that I've known since I was a toddler with a running nose. To me, Panipuri is the best food in the whole world, and Yes I'm very serious about this. I love to sing but every time I seek my love, ten others seek me asking me to shut up, but I still continue. I proudly boast of possessing every quality of a true Leo. Adventures make me happy, a bit too happy. I always have this undying urge to correct anyone who goofs up with the grammar and last but not the least, I am a social media person, even professionally.

Apart from the aforementioned traits, there is one thing I strongly feel should be added to my Richa-in-a-nutshell-bio and that added characteristic would be 'A Wannabe Vagabond'.

When you Google it up, words like traveler, gypsy, wanderer, nomad, wayfarer, bag lady, drifter and many other surface. If you ask me, I'd be more than thousand times happy to associate these words to me and my being. However for whatever the reasons may be, I haven't been fortunate enough to have any of these to call my own. To live under the stars, at the beach, under the sun, on the mountains, at a village with the locals, near the river, around the wild, with the fellow travelers, on the road, nothing much has come to me till now, but I hope and want that it does soon. So yeah, that's a wannabe vagabond writing to you, how much ever she is capable of.

Hoping to be a little more connected than this through the Wannabe Vagabond Diaries.
Cheerio.