A new spring every week!

To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations.

I am a great fan of quotes, in fact I read at least 5 new quotes every day. Here are some that reflect my mood today:

[Spring is] when life's alive in everything.

Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)

An optimist is the human personification of spring.

Susan J. Bissonette

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.

Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973)

So why was today a good day? I was down the last few days and nothing would get me out of it. The recurring flu was not helping my cause. This down syndrome has been hitting me again and again; it has been relapsing shall I say? But I am an optimist, every time it hits me I start building my web again akin to the undefeated spider. This week I hoped and looked out for small things to rock my boat. Another quote coming your way:

I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

On Monday, I found pleasure in working hard at the office and enjoying my favorite TV shows, thats a simple life.

Tuesday, I went down to the office cafe twice but both times I could not find anything appealing to eat so I decided to not give up on my desire for good food. I waited till I finished an assignment I was focused on till 3 pm, left work with no idea of what I wanted to eat. Randomly, I went to the Prolific Oven bakery and viola I tried something new - a Mexi-Chicken panini and boy was it good. It felt like Beethoven's symphony as I gorged on the mesquite chicken, the fresh avocado and the savory grilled peppers. The side salad was no less. I felt deja vu. Waiting for the right lunch and then finding supreme delight in it felt real.

Today, a series of fortunate events made me a super happy person and it was a new spring in my life all over again :)
- The project at work that had made Friday and Monday busy and yesterday uncertain today was all of sudden in green. Hooray!
- An hour at my favorite Toastmasters club was super fun.
- The soup at the cafe was so good, I bought 2 cups of it :) I even recommended it to 5 different coworkers. It was called Garden Vegetable Minestrone but it was so spicy I am sure it had some Thai or Indian herbs.
- I have been planning for my marathon spree since weeks and the inaction was killing me. The plan is not to build stamina for a marthon and then throw it all away like 2006. For 2007, I am planning a 6 month series full of a 5k, 10k, half marathon and then marathon. Once I get to the full marathon, I get to blow some steam and then start the same cycle again. I get to achieve 3 cool things: maintain stamina, keep fit year round and see new places that I go to run at. This is a good plan, all it needs is good execution. I kickstarted the preparation today: 1 hour of pilates followed by 3 rounds of Moitozo park. 1.5 miles in 20-25 minutes is not good at all but today is day one, so anything goes!
- As I walked home tired, I checked the mailbox and there it was - my graded paper on "The private diaries of Agrippina". This was the final paper I wrote under excruciating personal circumstances for my literature class on Roman emperor Nero and the three women he loved and killed.

All these very silly events just made my day. God is indeed as Ms. Arundhati Roy has famously cited in small things!

What a day! One must wonder how down I must have been to really feel so happy!