Simple pleasures of Life

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There have been quite a few things or behaviours in Athiboy which reminds me so much or my own childhood and brings joy to the day. I'm trying to document them here so that I can always be reminded that the joy of life lies in the most simplest of things. Things which cannot be bought, but only experienced as a part of the life. 


1. Sleeping the moment breeze hits your face during travel - This is something I have been quite famous for when I was kid. I literally doze off the moment I board a bus to Chennai / Bangalore. As soon as the breeze hits me, I'm out into my own dream world. One other reason was I had motion sickness, so if I don't sleep, I'm going to vomit - so people preferred to let me sleep.    

With Athi, there is no motion sickness, but almost all auto rides have put the kiddo into sleep within 15 mins. I love how observing how he slowly becomes silent and gets into a trance state and finally sleeps take over. The position or the comfort doesn't matter at all - off he goes into his own world. This unworried and peaceful sleep is something that I so miss these days. Because as I grew older, and travelled more, I got the better off my motion sickness and my sleep during travels have drastically reduced, and even if I do sleep, its not as it used it to be when I was a kid. Some things are gone with childhood, and this is one such - but glad I could cherish it when I was kid. 

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