Do You Have A Happy Corner In Your Home?

The delightful set of pictures were captioned “My Happy Corner”. I was smiling to myself. It’s so beautiful to know that someone somewhere unknown to me had created a space at his home where he could simply be him.

We all know that little nook in our home where we love to cozy up doing our favorite things. It could be sipping our choiced beverage with a book in hand, watching the sunrise or sunset or staring at the stream of light entering our homes, listening to the birds, playing with our kids and pets, practicing our music recitals or tap dancing to feel good songs; stealing those moments of the day that make us most alive, those sacred minutes, however less that brings back the you in you. The much needed break from the daily grind. The space to recharge our inner batteries, finding the calm in the chaos, the connect in the mundane, that tiny sanctuary that rules our heart and our soul. There’s a happy corner in all of our homes, big and small where we are truly ourselves sans everything that the world has labelled us or we have labelled ourselves for the world. 

That happy corner I saw on my Facebook Feed was the home garden that Subramanian Venkatraman had set up for himself, the space he calls in one word “Blissful”. I could sense the cheer it bought swiping through the photos.

Why do we need a Happy Corner?

Momentary happiness is such a tricky chap so elusive that we don’t know when he comes and how long is he going to stay. In today’s day the accumulation of stuff, the paradox of having too many choices is leaving us overwhelmed. In a manner, we have become de-sensitized to those aspects that impact our inner being and soul; simple things that bring a smile on our faces. 

It’s in spaces like the happy corner that we discover that inner joy, no matter what appears to be occurring around us. It’s an intolerant world, waiting for opportunities to attack and having a safe space to go to is incredibly essential for our mental health. The safe space refreshes and rejuvenates you. Every time you look at it it makes you happy and every time you sit in it, even more so. The best thing is that your happy corner allows you to be messy when you need to be cause none of us is ever totally sorted. 

His Garden His Safe Space

A Project manager for a global market research and consulting company by the day, Subramanian chooses to be a gardener post his work. In creating his happy haven that consists of a range of plants – Aloe Vera, Anthurium, Ferns, Ficus Bonsai, Coleus, Areca Palm Plant & Lucky Bamboo, it took him almost 2-2.5 years and a lot of failed attempts to bring it to a stage where he feels sheer peace and contentment being there. That’s the thing with our happy spaces. It finds us, we are drawn to it. As Subramanian puts it, “A lot of it came from self-realization. For me, gardening is a natural stress reliever.”