"It's the simple things in life that keep us from going crazy" - Ruskin Bond (Notes from a small room")
This is one of those life saving truisms. At times when mind is preoccupied with a thousand things, when the hours in a day aren't enough to keep up with all that one has to keep up with, and when life pulls a couple of those unpleasant surprises, simple acts that let one soak in the present moment offer a great respite. This could vary from a 30 minute jog, watching a rain or children play, listening to the birds or the wind in the trees, feeling the brush of the wind or the salty spray of the ocean on your face, discerning the subtle sounds and colors around us etc.
Anyway, that's what took me back to Ruskin Bond's works. It is a great stress buster for me and helps take mind off work, unwind and occupy the mind with simple acts and pleasures of life. Over the last few weeks I've read a lot more of Ruskin Bond:
1) The India I love
2) Book of Nature
3) Notes from a small room
4) A Handful of nuts
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