Sometimes, when I see a picture that I have clicked I'm flooded with happiness for no apparent reason.

It might be an inconspicuous, ordinary image.

No matter, how hard I look within its frame I fail to see the exact reason as to why it makes me happy.

The lighting, the composition, the object, the colors, the everything is sometimes less than ordinary.

Yet,it would make my heart puff a little not with pride but with joy.

A smile would spill over unable to contain itself.

The joy within would brighten my eyes.

I would again go back to the image and scratch my head, "What is it?"

Nada. No answer. Just pure joy that I am looking at something beautiful, at least for me, and that it makes me happy.

It took me sometime to understand a simple truth. Just like how you don't look a gift horse in its mouth, you don't HAVE to find the reason for your happiness. You don't have to justify it. If something makes you happy, accept it, relish it, and build on it. You really don't need to go looking for a reason.

The day when we need a reason to be happy is an indication that we are going downhill.

This is one such image. It is a picture of an electric pole. Technically, there is nothing in it that screams `be happy, smile, say cheers' - still I can't help think how beautiful it looks and how happy i feel just by looking it.

I guess there is a slight manufacturing defect in me! So be it :)