Her Holiness :)

The other day, while I was traveling from one office to other, I had to wait at a “Train Crossing” for close to half an hour. I had been going through some of the documents sitting in there, for a meeting that I was supposed to attend but was feeling bored. The cab driver had switched of the engine and we were just idling. The cab had stopped in front of a “college gate”. Bored and eager to move on, I had shut my laptop and was peeping out of the car window, when I saw this cow, holy cow. She was trying to find some green grass around to fill herself. It had just stepped in front of the gate of the college and seems to have found a small patch of greenery near the road, besides the pavement. As it started to chew, the college security guard came rushing to shoo her away and swung his wand onto the poor cow. The cow kept chewing and after having got a mouth full it moved on as if nothing had happened. But the guard ensured the push and yelling till the cow moved away from the gate. The funniest part was that, the cow had just moved a couple of inches, an old man passing by, stopped, stepped out of his “chappals”, touched the cow, mumbled a few prayers and then moved on.

I was wondering what a diversification of thoughts and beliefs. The beauty was the timing of the events.

But for the cow, it just moved on chewing its cud, oblivious of the happenings.

Happyness!!

His smile said it all… It was so catchy that my eyes could not move away from that twinkle in his eye… He could not move himself, could not convey his thoughts, could not even utter a word but his smile said a million of words. He was one of those amazing kids, who were challenged from the day they were born. Palani, lying in his bed on the floor, shared with four other kids was just smiling. He only other thing that he could do was to lift his arms and say, “hug me”.

I stood still as if time has stopped for me, not knowing what to do, holding back my tears, as the supervisor of the “Little Hearts Specialty school” kept telling us what all happens in the day. These kids were in this world not knowing whether they would live another day. They do not even know when they are hungry, what they need to eat. Today they may seem so nice, in their best way possible, tomorrow with the new day, who knows what state they would be in.

Thoughts kept coming, how does he talk? Must be frustrating when not able to communicate what he wants. Does he know what dreams are? How does the world look outside? What are the different colours in this world? And so many more…

We always keep comparing how sad we are, how not so good we are to do in this world. How much short of money we are in… Our limbs are intact but we still complain of an easy mode of transport even for a shorter distance. I am sure a lot of us can argue saying otherwise. But, reality is, “How may of us are happy in the state of affairs we are in?!”

If Palani can still smile in his irreversible pain why can’t we love the live we are in??

Where is the Cash!!!

Credit card companies do come up with some nice line.. Today happened to stumble upon one HSBC line that me laugh.. It said.. "Shop More, Live more"...

Well who does not want to shop and live more.. But I wanted to ask.. Who is giving free monies... Are they???

Silence

The other day while driving back home from office, one of my colleagues asked me..

"How comfortable are you with Silence!!?"

Pat came the reply.. very much..

Though on second thoughts.. I do not think so as humans we can ever be comfortable with silence. Yes maybe when one has a good control over his / her mind... this may happen. We keep searching for something or the other to keep our selves occupied.. Even when alone.. a book, the music, the fleeting thoughts over some fun / argument.. keep running though.. Yeah now a days, the fingers running over mobile keeps us more occupied that any thing else...

The only time that I can think of being very comfortable is sitting quietly at the sea shore.... I do not why but a big solace and comfort... :)

Smoke on Fire...

Funny Language -- English

English .. English... Oh my dear universal language...

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