today, i didn't snooze my alarm at 6. i wanted to see the first rain, i wanted to see how the clouds got together for a blissful pour. today, i got the top front seat of a double decker bus and the bhara was 5 taka. i don't remember the last time i enjoyed such fresh air. such peace inside a bus! today, my iftar outing got cancelled at the very last moment; although i had already told my mother, i will be late. i decided to explore an empty park. it was beautiful. today, i forgot to fully charge my phone which led to drained battery. clicking non stop nature photos made it worse and by 5pm, my phone was dead. it felt like i was officially out of everyone's reach. today, i didn't rush to get home. i stood on a busy footpath, saw busy people in busier transports. today, i saw kind people. sharing iftar, offering their best behaviour; no matter how exhausted and frustrated they were after a hectic wednesday. today, i walked back home as i wasn't in a rush. 7pm felt like 1am; with empty streets, closed or half shuttered shops and a rainy wind. i wish we still had sodium lights though. today, i wanted to go to chillox. i have been loving their fish tots recently. but then i felt i should keep my happy day inexpensive. just like it was so far. today, while walking, i met this 6 year old street child named meem who seemed to be a pathological liar. she was raised this way probably. but i liked her. she told me about her stray dogs and i told her about my day. we talked for almost two hours. i wished i had some battery left in my phone so that i could show her the flower photos. she would've loved those. being hopeless, i tried starting my phone and it worked. my phone which was dead for 3 hours, miraculously woke up with 1% charge. i don't know where it came from. and yes, i showed her the photos andvclicked a photo with her. today, she asked me to be her friend. she offered me dudh cha with the 5 taka she'd just got from an uncle near us. i bought us cha and had another 10 minute long conversation on why we think dogs are better than cats. then we clicked another photo and i bid her goodbye. i don't know if it's just the weather or the air, i liked everything about the day. today, i liked everything about myself.