Letting good things happen

notes on staying open to wonderful things

I keep thinking about how joy can be chosen without explanation. How you don’t have to earn it through insight or suffering or closure. How delight can come from the most unserious places. Warm hands, good timing, the pleasure of being noticed, the relief of not having to be curated or perfectly profound. Letting that be enough.

The picture above is from The Lumineers concert earlier in Feb’26. I have been a hardcore, all-lyrics-and-tunes-stamped-on-my-heart kind of fan. So much so, I’m able to quote lyrics in real life scenarios. It blew my socks off. I didn’t have to fly to America to watch them live although I would have done that too.

The universe makes my dreams come true. This one fell into my lap. We paid in rupees upwards of 16k for the tickets, 5k on travel, 3k on merch, and 8-10k on food & booze at the venue and boy every penny was worth it. We had plenty space in the concert group and got to experience the band and music and the circus of it all. This was a bucket list item and I got to experience them with my best friend at a fantastic deal.

Spending almost 35k at a concert would be the craziest thing to me a few years ago. I have learnt to expand my vessel of abundance. Make more money instead of trying to save every single rupee I make.

I’m really proud of being able to work on my mindset and coach myself to have better financial discipline. To feed my inner child too.

I got many compliments on my outfit!

Appa joked that I dressed like a goth indie artist for an American folk band, but vibes are vibes! We made new concert friends at the ground. Jeff & Maggie, a sweet American couple who live in Pune! They had flown up north to Gurgaon to attend The Lumineers concert. I spoke to Maggie about living a 4-hr train ride away from my family and she said I was lucky to be so close to people I love. I believe her.

It surprises me, this idea that cheer can coexist with everything else. That nothing needs to be fixed for something to feel good. That light moments aren’t shallow but they can be brief. They ask you to be present or miss them entirely.

I want to tell you how much magic lives in choosing delight on purpose. In letting yourself be impressed by ordinary things.

In noticing that happiness doesn’t always come from healing or meaning or depth, it sometimes comes from pink skies, warm bread, shared jokes, good hair days, and laughing at the wrong moment.

From letting life flirt with you and flirting back.

That choosing sweetness in a trembling world is its own form of courage. That even when nothing is resolved, something can still be beautiful. That high moments don’t cancel the hard ones. We coexist in the blues and greys and blacks and whites.

I want to tell you I remember this sometimes. And when I do, it feels like glitter on my palms.

I love you.

I hope you carry this lightness in your heart all day. I’ll see you next week with another sweet something.

Mo.