A visit to the toy store...

Today my parents actually forced me to leave work early because they realised how much I hated it and because since Friday is the Sunday of the Gulf countries, dad had a half day at work so we had a shopping trip planned for the evening. My brother had his football playing session lined up so he didn't join us so it was just my parents and me. We went to a boring mall with a great electronics store and some others. After my dad pondered over which foot massager to buy(yes, a foot massager!) and didn't end up buying one, we thought we would drop into 'toys r' us' which is one of the biggest toy store chain in the world(?). I wanted to get a stuffed toy for myself so i dragged my parents along with me. We looked at a thousand soft toys but I didn't find any good enough so we just walked around the store looking for some toys for my cousins back in India.
Walking through those shelves full of toys really really brought back memories for me. I actually felt like a kid again. We used to frequent the store alot when we were young and all 3 of us siblings used to disperse, my brother to the action figures section, sister to the grown up peoples section, me to the whole store. When I was younger, I had a stuffed blue bunny who I used to hug to sleep. It had been sewed and fixed so many times by my Mom that it even looked a bit distorted, but I just would not let my Mom throw it away. Fortunately for her, one day, my brother, who had an incessantly annoying and very weird habit of throwing anything he could get his hands on out of the window when he saw it open, threw my bunny out. I never saw him again.
While walking around in the store today I could actually picture everything that I used to see as a kid. All the colours, the evil men, the cute soft toys, the board games. Kids running around, parents looking for the perfect gift for their little children, grandparents trying to run behind their grandchildren. A small thing like a visit to the toy store can actually make you see soo many emotions all in one place.
It got me so excited walking through those aisles that I actually clapped everytime I saw something I liked or remembered and walked with a hop in my step. My parents were amazed at how small a kid I still was. Later on on the drive back home I sat back and thought about it. It doesn't really take much to change a person's mood. A simple look at a memory could make you laugh or cry, no matter how agitated you are, a glance at the serene and supportive faces of your parents can immediately calm you down, your anger can melt away in a moment just by a little squeeze of your hand by the person you love, the silliest of jokes can make you smile admidst all your tears. Life isn't easy, no one said it would be, but easy or not, it is beautiful.
The world around you is not out to get you. It is just around you always in it's various forms, colours and messages. It just takes a positive mind set from your side to make it look beautiful...
And all that...from a visit to the toy store!
Note to self:Stop thinking too much!