Rain

Things never are same and one cannot expect them to be. Today I sat in my seat and working seriously on a white paper, I stress seriously, now I always wondered why should one work so seriously? Nevertheless when I say seriously my way of doing it is to work joyfully but seriously concentrate on the lyrics of the songs playing in my I pod , well I am built like that I cannot live without Ipod or music working all the time even while studying. Now why did I suddenly deviate to another topic altogether! Not sure but I hope you will find a link as you go through.

It was a cloudy day in Pune the weather was measuring 22 centigrade, the sun looked as if it took a day off, but bright light filtered through the dark clouds was appearing so good as if it were the intersection of dawn and dusk. Even the birds were confused of whether to start from home thinking it was day in search of food or at the same time to stay back in their nests as it was looking the sun had just set. It appeared to me as if some how few birds faced a weather lag just as one faces jet lag while traveling far places with a considerable time zone variation and so were out roaming in search of food. So one could hear the sweet sounds they make and the good koel too singing to the tunes of the other birds. The droplets of water on the leaves due to the drizzling of the rain illuminated by the light were looking like the pearls shining with a glossy texture. While I was cautiously making my way through the pits containing the rain water to avoid any dirt to my trousers I saw two kids thumping the water pots with their legs by the road, as they were playing with least botheration of the dirt or the consequences later, the drizzle slowly turned heavy and started to rain.



I immediately opened my umbrella and started protecting myself from the rain and these kids were enjoying inexorably, mean while I opened my I pod from my back bag and started humming to the lyrics of Black eyed peas. In the whole process I was still watching them and slowly I recollected something, when I was a kid though I had rain coat to wear in my bag I cleverly used the rain coat to cover my school bag to avoid my books getting wet due to rain and I used to get wet top to toe, it was just not enough for me, I used to sway, nod, stamp my feet on the muddy pit pots of rain, raise my head up and feel every drop of rain on my eye, my cheek, It was like a moment where I had nothing coming in way of joy not even what my Mama would say after I reach home.

But now here I am with gizmos all around, hi-fi mobiles, I pods, laptops, multiplexes, we protect us from everything and anything, we rarely observe what nature is offering us, we shop we celebrate we spend money, but we spend no time for ourselves. As a great writer said money, technology and science make things complex, it is very much true.

My Gran used to say, we lived when there were no televisions and no internet, we lived even when the television was invented, we lived even when everyone was so oblivious of the fact that all the information is at a click away due to presence of internet.
But she always said we truly lived than you are living your life today.

I hardly see any IT guy coming out of his desk to see the rain fall, or to see the sun set in the evening? We do come out but we do so to use it for some other things! Dude life is not just earning it is earning a true life for yourselves. Love and get loved, give and get given. We worry about everything but we never care to worry about ourselves? It is still time that you start enjoying every moment around you! Enjoying is not partying, enjoying is not just discoing, and enjoying is not just all that!

I always had this vague feeling that all of our good things are outsourced to westerners. When I (not me its my friend but lets assume I am speaking on his behalf) was in Netherlands(in dreams he he lets assume I went) for an assignment I was rather exuberated with surprise when all my colleagues suddenly started getting out from their desk to see the clear sun light and most took a day off to spend the warmth sunny time with their families. Of course they rarely have the sun light in an unseasoned year but the way they made me recollect how small things in life should not just be taken for granted but to live the fullest is what amazed me!

Hope you had good time while going through the blog, I do not know how many of you would agree or you do! But as they perceptions through persuasions are never the same on a given thought 