Why You Need To Cherish The Awe-Inspiring Moments in your Life. . .
1. Watching India win 7 matches in the 2015 Cricket World Cup:
Every nation has a preoccupation," wrote the cricket writer Vijay Barve in 1971. "In China, it is Mao; in Latin America, it is Revolution; in India, it is cricket." But, while China and Latin America have overcome their love for Mao and guns, India's obsession with cricket continues unabated. How cricket, the slow, stately, and quintessentially English game with roots in a cold and damp island thousands of miles away, could have been so successfully transplanted into the hot, dusty, and crowded playing fields of noisy India has befuddled most sociologists, cricket writers and commentators. Needless to say Indians in India and Indians abroad love cricket and follow it with a passion unequalled by any other sport. To wit, my husband is in Australia currently, with eight other buddies to. . .you got it, watch the 2015 ICC cricket cup.
2. Freeing butterflies:
Be ever so quiet as not to scare them. Instead, watch to see where they fly as they embark on a new life.
3. The Magic of Rainbows:
Another awe-inspiring moment is when nature bends a kaleidoscope of heavenly colors into a rainbow. Growing up in New Delhi, I engorged on a diet of Enid Blyton books, retaining the mystery of the proverbial pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. But, never got to see one in the smoggy, polluted city of my childhood. . . now, twenty-five years later, when I drive into the gates of my residential community, and my senses are assaulted by one, sometimes, two rainbows, peeping over the mountains that surround the vineyards near my home, I still feel and exhale my breath on that "Ah, ha" moment.
4. Tipping the scale (OR NOT):
Gingerly, fearfully, stepping on the scale the morning after a drunken orgy of three wine glasses and a full serving of chocolate lave cake. . .to find that by some miracle, you're still at the 120 pounds you weighed when you left spinning class last week. Yeeeehaaa!
5. Pairing the right wine with your chicken biryani/shrimp scampi:
Savoring it as it blends with a mealy mouthful and creates just the perfect taste on the palate. Now that's awesomeness!