The X-Factor

We all spend so much of our days, weeks, months, years, lives looking for that special X-FACTOR in our lives. We keep looking for that one thing - that special something that we've all come to call the 'X-factor'.

However, so often, without our even realising, the X-factor pervades our day making us smile, laugh, enjoy life and experience all those emotions that we hunger to experience as humans.

A few months ago, I found the X-factor in my life... and it's just so amazing coz now that I've discovered it, come sunshine or rain, whatever be the season or the reason, I have beautiful days. It's amazing to know that a little something in your life can turn your world upside down. In my case, it's turned it upside UP :).

MAKE WAY people - the X-factor exists but it's for YOU to discover it.

The Grandeur of Small Things

Sometimes it just takes a lil bit of thought, a tiny effort to make someone's day. It's almost as if in God's (the Higher Power or Higher Energy, call it what you may) great magnificient design, we are each given the power to influence someone else's day. And so I find, that if I look hard enough for the 'interventions' in my own day, I am blessed with many many sweet interventions.

Even if I tried to make a list of all of them, it wouldn't do justice to all those things that do make a difference to my day thatI remain unaware of. But here's my limited glimpse of those things that really mean so much to me and that I notice!

• Someone who does a tiny special something just to make me smile or to make me laugh or to let me know that they were thinking of me.

• My mum, who will call me more than five times each afternoon even if she can't get through to me on her first three attempts (which should usually send the message that I'm extremely stuck up with some work and so, can't return her calls) - just to make sure that she asks me what I would like to have for dinner that evening, so that she knows I'm eating something I will enjoy.

• My aunt who will call me everytime she notes an achievement that I have made (no matter how tiny) in order to congratulate me on moving forward in life and being a step closer to my goals.

• My dad who is endlessly frustrated with today's super-fast-pace-of-life that it so gets to him. But somehow, he always manages to come up with a reaaaaaallyyyyy corny joke, at which I cannot help but smile!

• Someone who ensures that I always get my 'time-out' in the day so that I can let go or chillax in my own space.

• Someone who is thoughtful enough to make sure that I get my daily dose of nature and exercise in some form or means, so that I do not become mad venturing from one set of four-walls, into another set of four-walls.

• Someone who hates doing some of the things that I do, but will do it nonetheless every now and then, just because they know it would mean a lot to me.

• Someone who is a total clown and makes sure that he reminds me of this every day. He will make himself out to be a total clown (even when he knows he's being really silly) by blurting out something completely absurd in the midst of a conversation that he's really uninterested in or in order to burst the bubble of a realllllyyyy uncomfortable situation!

These are some of little joys which I am blessed to experience everyday. :) And it serves to remind me how even the smallest of thoughts translated into action can make a huge difference to someone else's day.

When I was young I used to believe that God had chosen me to be an instrument of His and that I had some Special work to do here. This belief of mine still holds true (though I often forget this in the hullaballoo of my day!). The only difference is that I think that each one of us here has the same special work to do in His grand design. We just don't know it.