Trust me, I fell in love as a little girl
With the music of nature, the sound of the world…
With the wind blowing my hair and the sky painted blue.
As a little girl, it was easy to fall in love!
Trust me, I fell out of love… At once
With the insane chattering of humans
Trying to bother the tranquility within me;
Ripping me off the innocence I once carried.

When life gave me a chance as an adult, I realized and
I welcomed it with my hands wide open.
I breathed in the air of freedom,
And let myself travel with time
To find out that life is so much more than
The constant hustle I let myself dwell in.
Life is in the fresh air I forget to breathe most often,
It is in the busy traffic every morning;
Life is in the coffee I sip so busily
While creating memos at work!

Life is in the TV commercials I skip
Only to find myself watching something random!
Life is in that random child who smiled at me
While I waited impatiently in the queue for my turn.
Life is in the arms of my little boy
Who outstretched his little toy car to me
And I restlessly brushed off trying to book us a cab
for we had somewhere to be!
Life is in the little things that I simply
Ignored, thinking they are merely little.

They aren’t is what I understood when I fell out of love
Of the constant bickering of my brain to my heart
To hear me out for once! No contentment in anything I do!
This realization let me understand the importance of staying still,
Holding on, taking it slow, and keeping it light…
Life is more meaningful when I meditate on the essence of who I am;
Away from the jarring sounds of the world that’s just racing
Each morning in the traffic, each evening in the same traffic!
When I realized that the hustle is real, and so is life;
I decided to sit back and do my best to
Relish that coffee break, stretch my back a little,
Honour my work, play with my child, and build myself up!
For I am living a life only I know about
Wearing a shoe that fit just my feet!

And I know I deserve to fall back in love
With the green of nature and the scent of the ocean;
With the smile of my son and the feeling of contentment.
Because life without contentment is life not lived
And I decided to live…to live well…
Trust me, I fell in love with myself this time!
And this time I shan’t fall out of love because
This time I know what I want from life!
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