Two for joy...

"One for sorrow..
Two for joy...
Three for a letter..
Four for a toy.."

When i was a child i remember flying off kisses to two singing birds wherever I could see them, getting sad about seeing one and so on... In fact this prevailed till I was in high school. I ensured I never missed it. I remember doing it in the middle of a lesson in school. I was probably bored with the lesson and was staring out of the window into the garden and I must have seen two singing birds and inadvertently i kissed off the birds.I believed my day would not go well if I ever missed a chance or came across a "one for sorrow". As I think back I dont even remember when I gave up on believing these "not-so-important" thoughts.

I suddenly remembered these today morning as I was walking along the Necklace Road (in Hyderabad btw) and came by two singing birds. Not that I had seen them after long but "two for joy" occurred to me after long.I got upset for once thinking I had actually given up on these small things which gave me happiness albeit temporary. The sight of two singing birds would actually give me immense pleasure in that I used to think "Wow! My day will be good today". And the thought that would follow would be "so silly" but at the end of it I was happy with the thought of a wonderful day ahead!

May be these are just perceptions, I start viewing things differently when I want to. I was brisk walking along the tracks thinking of this and that... all random thoughts. But as soon as I saw these pair of birds I saw everything around afresh! A group of teenager boys trying to balance themselves on an iron fence and that they were so happy in being successful or even happier when their friends were falling off in the process. They were lost in what they were doing, enjoying themselves, so oblivious of whats happening around them. They were there for quite sometime but unnoticed by me, I was probably lost in "more important" things. Huh! Two old men on the bench laughing away merrily while talking to each other. I cant describe what it was to see them laugh the way they were. I usually start laughing even when I see two unknowns laugh loud. But this was different. I was really overjoyed! I was smiling I realised! Indeed it is "Two for joy"!