Life's Biggest Happiness comes in Smallest Packets

Hey all you Kind-Hearted People!

A Warm Hello,

If I can make a person smile, my day truly becomes worthwhile...This is undoubtedly the philosophy of my life...gifted to me by my mom whom I lost 9 years ago...Spreading smiles is what I have seen her do all through her life and when I do exactly the same, I feel closer to her as she is and will forever be alive in my heart <3

And so my life is so much richer with the sweet memoirs of these lovely moments where following my heart has brought a genuine smile on someone's face...Sharing a relatively recent one, that satiated my soul...

This incident dates back to a couple of years back when I shifted to Pune from Gurgaon.....Luckily I found a good domestic help with about a decade full of similar experience...She was not only hands on in domestic work but also an excellent nanny for my little chap.....Within months she gelled so well with us that we almost felt she was our family member...we lovingly called her "Gorethi Akka" .....She lived with us and we never saw her spending even a single penny out of her salary, little did I know she had a mission in life until one day she candidly poured her heart out to me...

I was pained to know that she and her only son were abandoned by her husband some years back (she was happy about it though, as this had put an end to the physical and mental abuse she has been bearing for long) and since than her son lived with Gorethi Akka's mom and dad in their village while she worked extremely hard to support her son and her very old ailing parents....Now her son has completed his primary education and there were no school after class 5 in her village....However she desperately wanted her son to get good education so that he does not grow up to be another drunkard illiterate monster like his father...So she was collecting every single penny vehemently, to admit him to a school in Patna and also support his living there....

I was extremely touched by her story and felt deep in my heart to help her out in the most noble mission of her life, to the best of my abilities....This was extremely essential too to reinforce her faith back in humanity....I asked her to let me know the total amount needed to deposit for her son's admission and how must she has already collected...she initially hesitated for she is a lady of great self-respect but as I convinced her that she can return it from her salary as per her convenience, she agreed...and happy to help as I always am, but only to the real needy, my heart was super-elated again.....

For the first time in last few months, I had seen a hearty smile on her face...That weekend she went back and got her son's admission done..I also sent with her some clothes and shoes for her son.... Being able to complete all formalities for the same, her heart 's joy knew no bounds...Sincere as she always is, she returned back to us and our Gorethi Akka still lives with us like a family member...This year her son goes to Class 8th and as he is growing up, so is my heart's happiness of following my heart in making Akka's Dream come True <3 ...A small gesture of mine brought such a big happiness to someone really worthy of it, isn't it ? 

Life's Biggest Happiness truly comes in Smallest Packets <3 ..So never hesitate to take that small plunge :) ... You mat never know, it may create a MAGIC in someone's life...


And hence when I came to know of the worthy #DilKiDeal Activity of Snapdeal, I thought to pen down my ecstatic contentment experienced through this  #DilKiDeal incident in my life ( My #DilKiDeal  Story), which is forever etched on my heart...

Trust you enjoyed the read, as it came Straight From The Heart :)

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The Gesture out of Pure Love Tinkled my Soul and gave un-paralleled Satiation to my Heart

A Peep From my HouseBoat

Hey Folks,

Words fail me to express my love for paradisaical Kashmir where I went inadvertently every year with my dad in Summer Vacations for a month and this incident dates back to almost 2 decades ago but is extremely fresh and extremely close to my heart...some memories you know, get forever imprinted in your heart and become a reason for your smile, even years later...

I was in class 6 then, if I remember correctly and was standing outside our room in the houseboat enjoying the serenity of sunrise from behind and hills and playing a peek-a-boo with clouds, when I saw a very small boy probably 6-7 years old sail a tiny raft full of water lilies of astoundingly beautiful colors....gradually the Kashmiri little boy with a pink innocent face approached me and gestured at me to buy some of his flowers....I looked at mom and dad who were sipping their herbal tea and after their nod in affirmative, asked him the price, he said - "Ek ka Do, Do ka Paanch" ...In his broken hindi, he persuaded me to buy his stuff which I willingly did...Afr that that he came almost every morn  with those divinely mesmerizing flowers....Don't know why, but at his first glance, I felt connected to this cute little boy called Firoze...

Unknowingly I started to wait for Firoze every morn....he stayed with me for about half an hour each day and I taught him how to read and write...he was like my younger brother not related to me in blood but heart....but it so happened that after about a couple of weeks he did not come with his lilies....I was worried and my fears worsened when he did not come for many more days to come....this lovely boy had a spell-binding innocent charm about him than he had carved his sweet little place even in my patents hearts...so honestly all of us were worried about him....

After inquiring with some shikarawalas with my dad, I finally reached Firoze's House and found that he has been ill...seriously ill for days now...he looked pale and week...I turned to him mom to inquire about what their doctor has suggested but was heart-broken to know that with his dad being no more and having his 4 more siblings to cake care of, his mom hasn't had enough money, to take him to a doctor....Infact, they barely had food to eat....

I looked at my dad, almost like pleading to him, for intervention and we rushed Firoze to the Local Doctor...where after about a week of being admitted to the hospital, the little boy was saved with a lot of difficulty as the infection has badly spread all over his body...But he was to be kept under observation for two more weeks in the hospital...For the days he was in hospital, I went to meet him daily and carried some fruits for him exactly like he rowed to me each day with the un-earthly Lilies....I would also read out stories of grit and determination, that I thought at my tender age then, would motivate him...I also shared with him that why he must study to be able to take care of him mom and siblings as he grows up and gift himself and his family a worthy life....In all my care for my dearest Firoze, I followed my heart,whose strings have been unknowingly attached to this boy....  Our bond of humanity and friendship grew stronger with each passing day and I am proud my Firoze soon stood up on his feet again...But you know what this couple of weeks has transformed him completely...Unknowingly I have conferred upon him "The Gift of Education" and a deep desire to study has taken birth in his heart....My heart felt for him and I simply followed my heart and in this connection heart to heart, little Firoze's heart got a direction :)

This was the biggest transformation in Firoz's Life....With an initial financial help from my dad, he embarked on the journey of education in his life...and as he grew up his ambitions took precise shape...he even came to stay with us a couple of times in Jammu during holidays...With his impeccable focus and the ability to work extremely hard, this innocent Kashmiri Boy has cracked IAS exam last year....

Grown up Firoze getting Flowers for me :)

My Day is incomplete in Srinagar without his Flowers

As for me my gesture out of pure love for him tinkled my soul and gave me unparalleled satiation...It also enriched me as a person...Firoze visits me every year on Raksha bandhan without fail and no matter how many times I have been to Kashmir in so many years, he still comes rafting that same boat and brings to me those lovely lilies without fail....though he's grown up today and their are more varieties of flowers on his raft now....True we are not related in blood but in hearts <3

And hence when I came to know of the worthy #DilKiDeal Activity of Snapdeal, I thought to pen down my ecstatic joy experienced through  this #DilKiDeal incident in my life ( My #DilKiDeal  Story) that created magic in Firoze's Life....<3

Trust you enjoyed the read, as it came Straight From The Heart :)

“I am participating in the #DilKiDealOnSnapdeal activity at BlogAdda in association with SnapDeal.”

Photo Credits: All pics used in this Blog-post are my personal pics clicked in the Paradisaical Kashmir.