Moments of Happiness | At the Phuket pool

{For the context behind this series of posts called 'Moments of Happiness' do read this one}

When: Aug 2012
Where: Phuket, Thailand

One of the days from our 1st Hangover Trip at Thailand….we were at Phuket and was put up at a little resort which was a gem of a discovery by our mate Chiki Sen - Prince Edouard resort.

All of us were a bit travel-lagged and we decided to take it easy for the day; and what better way to do it than lounge at the pool and keep downing the cold Singhas.

It is at one such moment that Chiki Sen captured of the 3 of us (Chatts, Gobs & I) while we lay submerged in the waters…

Photo Credit: Chiki Sen

When I looked back at this photo after our vacations were over and even multiple times after that, I seem to recall an amazing sense of happiness and peace that I felt at that moment…it was almost tangible.

There we were…quite a couple of beers already down and in all probability either recalling some past incident involving the buoys or taking a piss at any the other buoys…for the moment cut off from the worries of the world.

And what wasn’t there to be happy about -  our vacation was just beginning, some of us oldest mates were getting together for it in Thailand - half of us were there and the residual slated to meet us at Ko Samui within the next 2 days, we had an endless assembly line of beer bottles materializing beside us at the pool and the holiday sun just makes everything happier!

Life took a pause as we basked in it's moment.

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 Legend:

Chiki Sen a.k.a. Abhishek Sen…one of the Buoys

Chatts a.k.a. Arjun Chatterjee…one of the Buoys

Goba a.k.a. Abilin Mukherjee…one of the Buoys

The Buoys - The DBPC boys and all those non-DBPC ones who have come to be associated with them

Moments of Happiness - the idea behind it...

Unfortunately it is an oft occurring event, that in our strive to achieve happiness we often tend to either overlook, or forget to enjoy & celebrate and forget too easily those sudden moments of happiness which brings forth that elusive nirvana within yourself, even maybe for some moments.

As I often recall that quote from (for some reasons) a favorite movie of mine - The Beach - as Richard poignantly puts it:

"…And me? I still believe in paradise. But now at least I know it's not some place you can look for. Because it's not where you go. It's how you feel for a moment in your life when you're a part of something. And if you find that moment... It lasts forever…."

So as an ode to those sudden moments of joy, happiness and peace in our lives which we often ten to ignore, I thought of starting this 'Moments of Happiness' where I would try to recapture some moments from my life where I felt at peace with myself and the events which built up to it.

Will try to keep it short and as accurately as I remember it, just such that years later, these memories can still stay fresh I my mind and can be relived again…