You made my day !!!


One fine day, all out of the blue, you get up, finish the routine morning activities, prepare your fresh cup of tea and grab the laptop do the most important ritual of a IT guy... Check mails...

There is a mail from the agency which monitors your pay check saying that the salary is deposited... nothing unusual... this mail comes every 15 days... this time also I was anticipating this mail... but still, every time this mail lands in my inbox, it brings out a smile at the corner of your lips... the same tea tastes a lot better, the same ginger brings a unique flavor and the same morning feels a lot better... There is a smile and u say -- U made my day !!!

Then u scroll thru the remaining new mails... An old friend sends a mail which really sends a happy chill down your spine... you cant recover from that for the whole day... Not that this was unanticipated... u knew this was going to happen... but this is what u wanted from a long long time to happen... suddenly there are invisible shock-absorbers in your heels and suddenly there is a spring in ur step... it feels nice... There is a smile and u say -- U made my day !!!

Then ur wife checks her mails... she also gets one mail which she has been anticipating for long... it makes her flash her thousand watt smile... for her too, the morning cereal is more crispy... the sun is soothingly warm... There is a smile and u say -- U made my day !!!

I fail to understand why there is this happiness even though these events are anticipated and sure to happen... Never were such sure-to-happen results, so very satisfying... Why is there a smile and why do we say -- U made my day !!!

And thats when I thought abt another such event... The would-be-parents know that they are going to have a baby... they know it for 9 long months... They have been planning the baby room... the baby's name... the finances... the many not-so-mundane things... there are innumerable visits to the doctor... innumerable morning sicknesses... innumerable sweet moments... then there are those long labor hours and waits outside the labor room... the script is written well in advance... everyone knows the results... But still when the baby enters the world, There is a smile and they say -- U made my day... what more, they celebrate the day for years to come... Need I say anything more...

The least I can do is smile and say -- U made my day !!!