Author : Heena Shah
Joy
The dictionary meaning is;
Joy – a feeling of great happiness or pleasure, a person or a thing that causes happiness, a deep feeling or condition of happiness or contentment, something causing such a feeling; a source of happiness, an outward show of pleasure or delight, rejoicing.
For me, Joy is not just an emotion or a feeling, it’s a person, in fact not one but two! My two lifelines, who have brought immense amount of Joy in my life, my loving husband and my dearest daughter.
Though I must have told them both ‘Love you’ umpteen number of times, my heart still says it’s no justice done. Hence, maybe I can do some justice to the feeling of love and Joy they both have showered on me, through this post.
True Joy entered my life about 18 years ago, though it was not like sparks flew at first sight, neither did our wavelengths match, yet slowly we got close, knowing one another better. Eventually, falling head over heels in love.
The beautiful moments spent together brought sheer Joy in my otherwise monotonous life. Various love songs kept playing in my head through the day.
This Joy turned into a bonding for life, 14 years back, there is no looking back since then. For our honeymoon, we were to take a flight to Delhi and then onwards journey by road to Uttarakhand. This was the first time I was going to experience a flight journey, the Joy I felt, was just like the feeling of Joy a child has, who is given an ice-cream, so innocent and real.
We faced many difficulties, ups and downs in our life, but Joy never left my side. Thanks to my caring and understanding life partner, we could tide over all of them, emerged as winners. My heart like a jukebox kept humming different songs at each moment, ‘’Song”
Something was amiss, it was already over 35-38 days, I had missed my periods, the home test for pregnancy was done, I leapt for Joy looking at the positive result, I was going to be a mother! The melody this time around was, ‘Nanha sa gul khilega angna, Sooni bahiyan sajegi sajna, Jaise khele chanda baadal mein, Khelega woh tere aanchal mein, Chandaniya gungunayegi, Chandaniya gungunayegi, Tabhi to chanchal hain tere naina, Dekho na, dekho na, Tere mere milan ki ye raina..’
July 2008, my bundle of Joy, our cute little daughter was placed in my hands, my Joy knew no bounds! ‘Mere ghar aayi ek nanhi pari…’ was my tune for a long time.
She’s almost going to be a teenager now, the immense Joy I have experienced while raising her, cannot be expressed in words. We’re more like best friends now, staying up late till 3 a.m., having heart to heart talks, sharing our Joyous and sad thoughts, singing and dancing to various melodies.
Simple and beautiful moments of life we three have spent together, whether it’s humble celebrations or holidays here and abroad, all are captured, not only in my memories, virtually too, have been the most Joyful ones.
Since the last 15 months, times are tough, many have faced lots of difficulties and lost their loved ones too, my heartfelt prayers are with them, but for me, the last 9 months have delivered ample and most Joyous moments of life. The best part is having both my doses of Joy, right here with me throughout.
I have enjoyed cooking a variety of delicacies for them, playing so many games together, and spending quality time together. Just wondering, hope I don’t get any withdrawal symptoms once things go back to normal.
When the heart is filled with pure joy, the whole house chirps with positivity and the aura around is of peace and tranquillity.
Hope you found my joyful melody of life worth humming…
