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Finding Joy
That long and winding path to pleasure
Shortcuts may be efficient but detours and being a little lost yield surprising rewards.
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Going off the beaten track can yield sparks of joy in discovering new things in an old, familiar neighbourhood.
PHOTO: LESLIE KOH
Leslie Koh
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The walk from my home to my parents’ takes about 25 minutes and is as simple as it gets: out of my Housing Board estate, onto the main road, straight down for 20 minutes, then a left through an HDB block to their home.
But I’ve found several other ways to get there, all of them taking far longer. One meanders along a winding road of old bungalows before cutting back into my parents’ estate. Another takes a long loop around my own estate of ageing HDB blocks before getting back to the main road. A third includes a detour up and down a hillock packed with swanky condos.
