Good Morning!

Another day woke me up from my bed early in the morning and the first wish for the morning was reserved to my new gang of friends who always stayed with me quite close by. With a gentle smile I opened my eyes and they were right by my side dancing to welcome me for a whole new day. They were 100 plus feet and tall enough to peep in my windows. I nearly whispered ‘Good Morning’ and they bowed down to acknowledge outside my window along the roadside!

It was time for an early morning jog and I liked to be on road while there were less vehicles. Few others who had grown up with discipline came out jogging at the nature reservoir a few miles away from where I stayed. Each was a stranger to the other but when someone smiles at you, you would naturally smile at them! Like a celebrity would to the paparazzi, I smiled at everyone on my way. It was as much of an exercise to my facial muscles as much to the rest of the body!

There was one special person who always greeted me after I first wished her ‘Good Morning’. She never said good morning to me but replied in her way… ‘Zao an’ and we exchanged few more smiles before walking our own ways. There was some warmth in it and the smiles had multiplied. An old man who never said good morning to me used to say, ‘Selamat pagi’.

The nature reservoir looked full of life and a life full of smiles. It was a place where strangers met every morning to just smile at each and wish good morning in their own languages. It was where I realized the importance of celebration of each day and each new morning. ‘You don’t really need to know anyone and you don’t really need reasons to smile’, the old man always said in a language that I didn’t know but whose meaning I very well knew!

It’s late now and I sleep before it’s too late…
I wake up early to meet my unknown mates…
They would come down to wish me and I’ll no more wait…
It’s going to be a new day again, so keep wishing … Good Morning!