Was flipping through my drawers and cupboards over the weekend. It's strange, but sometimes you just feel like rummaging through some old stuff for some memorable history.
The most interesting ones that caught my attention were a few pieces of foolscap paper. It was scribbled with some words of encouragement from a particular someone. Most of the contents were in Chinese, but the cutest part of the messages were that of telling me to be 10:10 on the clock instead of 8:20.
Hmm, I sense a few puzzled reactions. What the heck am I talking about?
Well, it's actually pretty simple. Imagine a clockface showing the hour hand pointing at 10 while the minute hand points at 2. And viola!! You actually get a smiley face! Thus, if the hour hand points at 8 and the minute hand points at 4, you get a frown.
Get the explanation? So yeah, it's someone slipping me a note trying to turn the frown on my face into a smile. And you know what, as far as I can remember, it worked almost everytime.
And guess what, those foolscap papers actually date back to the year of......1999!! Even before the turn of the millennium!! That means they have been with me for like, 7 years? That's already a one-third of my lifetime!
It's strange that something so simple can actually do so much. I mean, how nice can words be scribbled on foolscap paper look? Even the most expensive foolscap paper you can buy looks like, well, just another foolscap paper.
What I'm trying to drive across is that on many occasions, you do not have to go all out to make someone feel better, to make someone feel cherished and important and so on. All it takes is sincerity and a genuine heart to do so.
And I wonder why I never realised that things could have been this simple a few years back when it had dawned on me 7 years ago. Not to mention failing to convince myself that these simple things that touched my heart would similarly touch others' too.
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