The joy in spontaneity

There is some true joy in being spontaneous. In fact one of the unadulterated joys in life is in giving spontaneous gifts to loved ones. And anything spontaneous as long as it isn’t life altering always leads to happiness… a trip.. a sudden shopping spree…a call to a long-lost friend… to name a few off the top of my head. It gives you that sudden surge of adrenaline and has you bursting with joy for the rest of the day at least. And then you feel like you slept with a hanger on your mouth – smiling all day. And these days make it worth existing past some of the horrendous ones that are bound to show by every now and then.

So on this Fool’s Day, do something silly. Make it one of those days you wanna think about to get past the terrible ones. Make it count! (And if you need inspirations, I’ll tell you about my most memorable Fool’s Day trick where I pretended to have a fracture in my arm on an English final exam in the VIII grade). Happy April Fool’s Day!

Happy Fool's Day

Here's Orkuts gag on Fool's Day - calling themselves "Yogurt"...

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Other gags - CNN IBN actually had a totally fake 'Rakhi Sawant assaults reporter' video. It was fake from the first microsecond and anyone who'd not guessed as much has some serious disorder.

Rediff had the headline - "Sorry Ranbir.. But Deepika weds Yuvi" - again it was soooo fake you could smell it. And then there have been the usual Jolie-Pitt wedding rumors. People should grow up and post believable April Fool's gags... Google usually does a great job.. In fact their ever-increasing mailbox storage was introduced 2 years ago on April 1... which led many people to believe that it was joke.. With the storage still increasing, we all know now who the joke's on. They also had a great one on some pigeon-flying search method or something similar...

Check out this year's Google Gag here.

Traditionally though, for me... April Fool's Day in India at least as long as my brother and I were there held the charm of fooling all my really naive family members. Mostly my brother and I would fold an 'Inland' Letter (remember those blue-coloured one and a half page paper which would fold into an envelope and had a printed stamp?) in which we wrote nonsense in Tamil, fold it, stick it and address it to our Chittipatti (Granny's younger sis who lives with us). Then we'd take turns in going out the door and ringing the bell. The other would open it announce loudly, "Babu letter." She'd come over expectantly before we screamed "April Fooooooooool" at her.

Soon, everyone else caught on... making fake calls from the mobile phones to the landlines, saying they cooked something else as opposed to reality and what not, and everything got the April Fool's tag with it. Now I suppose the charm has slightly faded on me... Or I would probably have attempted a gag post on my blog. That would've been fun... Lol.