Just because

I have always been someone who saves good things for special occasions.

A pretty dress? I will wear it for birthday. That favourite outfit? May be for a festival or a function. The lipstick that I bought recently? I will save it for somewhere worth going. Even the clothes hanging in my wardrobe sometime feel like they are wating for an invitation.

For some reason I always believed that dressing up required a reason. A celebration or a gathering or a dinner or atleast somewhere nice to go.

But today was different. I don't know what possessed me to do it. It was an ordinary evening. Nothing was planned and nobody invited me anywhere and there wasn't an special evening coming up. I was just going through my usual routine when I suddenly felt like wearing something nice.

So I opened my wardrobe and picked the dress I had been saving for the right occasionm I took my time getting ready, did my hair, put on some makeup and even spent a little longer than usual deciding how everything should look.

I stood in front of the mirror and adjusted my dress, tried a few poses and took photograph. Some turned out nice and some thing I have deleted immediately. I changed the angle and fixed my hair and took few more and smiled at home seriously I was treating my own little photoshoot.

And then, just like that I went back to my evening. No party. No celebration. No planes to meet anyone. I changed back to my comfortable clothes eventually and continued with what I have been doing before.

But something about those few minutes made me so happy. I realised how often I postpone little pleasures. I save the good dress, the expensive perfume, the pretty stationary, the favourite food, and even certain experience for days that feel important enough to deserve them.

Meanwhile ordinary day keeps passing. Maybe we don't needs a birthday party to war our favourite dress. Mayne we don't need a dinner invitation to use that perfume we have been saving. And perhaps the prettiest dress in our wardrobe deserves to see more that the inside of the closet.

I don't know if I will stop saving things for special occasions but today reminded me that sometimes, the occasion can simply because being alive and wanting to feel good about it.

Tell me, do you also have that one outfit that you have been saving for an occasion that never seen to arrive? Did some dress just comes to your mind while reading this?