Sick Leave

Basically how one day gave me plenty of memories, peace, positive thoughts, and hope — how it all happened, and my takeaways.

I've started this to get like-minded connections, express myself better, and because writing always improves our thinking and creativity — feels like a big step for everything ahead.

Usually I don’t take any medicine, I don’t like hospitals or medicine stuff, most of the time I avoid it. Instead I sleep well and do whatever my mind feels like at the moment, no pre-plans.

Same happened today, I slept till 11 AM and woke up lazy.

Got fresh and went to Madhuram (my go-to local restaurant for tiffins, not the best but best among available options) and ate ghee karam idli.

(We’ll come back to Madhuram again, wait for it)

I’ve been thinking about it for a long time, but due to various constraints it didn’t work. But today it formed a shape, bought a domain, wrote a few lines by hand not using AI, to mark a memorable event (I usually consider little things, feel happier for silly things, that’s me).

And wrote a LinkedIn post for sharing this new website update, and scheduled it.

Scrolling reels and quick naps.

Went late for lunch but our owner ensures everyone has enough food, so I managed to get hot rice and tasty curries.

As I’m on leave, no rush. Sat very relaxed, eating slowly and enjoying the little things around — cool winds, light rain, a flight passing low, birds, and a girl enjoying the drizzle.

She was around 3 buildings away, I could barely see her face, but I could see her posture. She bent slightly, hands on the wall, turning around and enjoying the moment.

Felt like talking to her, but she was far away and on the 4th floor, so no chance. Just watched her for around 10–15 mins.

Since I had no chance to talk to her, I thought if I had a drone, I might send it to her with a msg or capture her moment and show her how beautiful it looked.

Hopefully if I earn more money, I’ll definitely try things like this 😄

After lunch I went to a bike wash on the way, it was around 3 PM so 0 customers.

All the guys there were playing cricket.

They had no bat, no stumps — just a ball. They were using a plastic tray as stumps and a rod as a bat.

While one guy was washing my bike, I captured videos — bike from front, my puppy sticker, and them playing cricket.

After some time I showed him the clips, he felt happy. I don’t know his language, so used sign language 😄

He shared it with the others as well.

After bike wash I started going home, but my mind said not to stop.

So I kept going and stopped at a colony ground (park).

Every bench was occupied, mostly men, everyone in their own world, probably dealing with their own thoughts.

So I sat on the ground under a tree and captured them, the trees, and the flights above.

Started walking around 4 PM, weather was cool and it felt really good.

Captured trees, a lonely dog, birds singing, etc.

While leaving, I saw a guy who looked a bit sad entering the ground for a walk.

Still my mind said to go somewhere, so I started the bike again and moved ahead.

Saw pink creepers (paper flowers) and started capturing them while riding, got some good clips btw.

Came back to room, after some time rain started again.

While capturing it, I noticed a guy sitting in the balcony enjoying the rain, later his partner joined him.

Now both were enjoying it together, I captured it and shared it as a reel.

Those moments were really beautiful ❤️

While I was enjoying the rain from the balcony, I got a high priority office task.

I picked it up and completed it there itself. Working in that cool weather hits really different compared to a closed office, it gives a better feeling, feels more effortless, open door, fresh air, rain vibe, everything together makes the work feel lighter, even u feel the same right?

After a long time met my old friend Sandeep, he’s a professional body builder, u can ping him for tips, this is not a paid promotion 😄

Spent a good time with him, a long walk around, and shared thoughts for a while, again captured a few nature moments.

Went for dinner, met a few people there, PG owner gave raw mango slices sprinkled with chilli powder, (mouth watering while writing this), had them, we discussed a few business ideas (routine stuff when men meet).

After a while big sound from transformer, power cut...

We thought to walk, as the view looks attractive when power is off.

Started, roamed around the streets, believe me for every 50 feet or less we stopped, had good talk, captured very good pics (not pics of us).

Every stop, new thoughts, new feel.

At this point of time, we realized that we forgot everything, our office pressures, our life struggles, everything, we were just being ourselves, enjoying every sec, by doing just simple things.

While we were reaching the destination, thought to capture one more to end better, one guy said to capture “Madhuram” restaurant from distant, started capturing, I saw a couple inside it, secretly I tried capturing them with 10x, looked good. People used to call me introvert, and most of the time I’m like that only, but in this scene I went like a popular Insta influencer and did things like that.

Went nearby and captured again with 2x, it was awesome, captured the perfect candid, felt like showing the pics to them.

We took a daring step, approached them, and said we took their pictures, showed them, she felt happy, yeah even he felt good, I’m in the sky when I see their faces glowing, he asked to share pics, done. I can still remember her smile and his shocked-like expression.

I’m not sharing the pic of them here, due to privacy concerns.

Took the step what my gut said, it went very well.

I came back to my residence, and the best satisfactory day, u know the sleep will be as good as the day.

If I went to office, these moments might never happen the same way, the girl I saw at lunch, the cricket play, the ground scenes, and couple balcony scenes in rain, and the Madhuram moments.

Everything is butterfly effect, I can literally feel the chain of events, how interlinked each other.

Few key roles in this butterfly effect too: Jay who accepts my No easily, understands better, and because I said it to the movie for various other reasons, feeling tired and not seeking entertainment, coincidentally these things worked out; Munendra and Varaprasad for the PG walk and Madhuram moment participation; Sandeep already became part of this chain in between.

I pray to have more days like this, to make my soul happy.

Doing what u love every moment is not always possible.

But when life gives u a chance, even for a minute, do it.

Break the resistance, ignore judgments, leave no regrets.

I felt this is life. Few might find it silly, but it isn’t.

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