Simple desires.

I believe, that this shot, taken from the inside of a crammed rickshaw speaks for itself. We were tired after roaming and purchasing through the noisy, crowded streets of Kariakoo- a hive of activity, and were relieved by the sight of a rickshaw that could take us back home.

We could've complained about the fact that there wasn't a taxi or a bus available at that time, but then I saw that this photo was just sitting there, waiting to be taken. And I saw it in good time, as we almost reached home and were about to get down. Had I given complaining a thought, I would've surely missed this photo. What we're looking at is the most common sight of millions of people in the third world countries around the world. Most of them resort to a window seat on their way back home after a day of laborious work that pays them barely enough to take their family out during the weekend. Most of them just yearn for something that simple- a window seat, maybe some drizzle that gently sprinkles on their face. The most important thing- they're happy with or without something that basic too!

If you look at this mindset of these people, you really wonder, "Wow, I've been asking for too many things in life", and that's true- we ask for a good childhood, we then ask for a good college life with absolutely no sense of responsibility and pure 100% social life, partying everyday with people we call friends, posting pictures of delicious-looking food and putting a 'want' or a 'craving for it' sticker on the photo, and then we ask for luxuries like a large car that has an expensive price tag on it, just to impress, again, people we call friends, and then comes the time when we complain that our grades went low without realising that we were and are the only person in-charge of everything in our life and that things in our life are under our control, and that we're the ones waiting for those things to go out of control and wake up only when it's too late, while we could've corrected everything from the beginning without even a fraction of the pain we went through during the process of setting things right after everything has gone wrong.

The takeaway here is that we ask and crave for things which are grand, and with it comes unhappiness- we've experienced it many times. I think that it isn't too difficult to ask for simple things. The amount of joy in doing simple things will surprise you often. You end up with nothing but dissatisfaction whenever you aim for grand things without which your life would still go on happily. I think when we change this mindset of ours, our life will become much more simpler, we'll be more happy.