Scribblings from Life

This is one of the incidents which made a kind of impact in me and so I thought it might be a good idea to share this with the world as well.


I was at Belgium for a IT project. This project was at a small place at Belgium called Mechlen. We had a team of around 30+ people onsite and all of us were working for a belgian telecom company. We were working with this client for quite sometime and hence had good relations even with the employees of this company. We often end up inviting them at our places for parties and vice-versa.


The incident happened at one such party. We were all enjoying the party mood with all the gossips making ways. I was talking to one of this belgian colleague of mine. She was just chit chatting about how her kids were enjoying their childhood and some funny incidents with them. During this conversation, just out of curiosity I asked her, “Tell me what is the one thing that you really like about India ?”. I was expecting usual replies like “nature of people, your IT talent, Tajmahal” or likes. However I was moved by the reply she gave me.


She paused for a while and said, I really like the fact that when you grow older you take care of your parents.


I had never anticipated somebody coming up with such a reply. I was moved by the fact the world can watch us so closely. These are the few good qualities which we as Indians are known for in the world and I actually felt proud about the same.


At the same time I was a little worried that with the current western trends that we are embracing, are we on the verge of losing these kind of small uniqueness that we held which sets us apart from the rest of the world ?


Comments welcome.

 

I use to go to the Garden for morning walk. I use to meet and see lots of people there. Today also ,as always, I went for walk in the garden and I saw the same routine there. People were talking on the mobiles, doing physical excersises, resting after a heavy workout and some were just chit-chatting.

 

But in all of that, I saw someone who was looking very different among all of them and looked gloomed. I went to him and asked, Excuse me ! Can i ask u who are you ? and why are you so sad ?

 

Her reply plesantly surprise me. She said I am Nature. I asked but why are you so sad ?  

 

She said God has sent me here to teach you some vauable lessons of life. And the problem is everyone is busy and nobody is looking at me. Do you know why ?  Because I am a free gift from God. And people generally think that anything which is free has no value. But that is not true. Although I am free I am precious.

 

I asked, how ?

 

She replied come closer to me and observe each and every thing that I carry and the things i do and then relate them with your life. you will start learning many things about your life.

 

I said ok, let me try.

 

I went close to nature and I can tell you I learned many valuable lessons of my life. Do you want to know what were they ?

She says I bestow you with colorful flowers and beautiful birds. Nature thus teaches us to enjoy the colors of life, decorate our lives with pleasures enjoy everything that God has given us for enjoyment in form of music, dance, art, work and much more

 

She says I change myself in form of seasons. It thus advices us to adopt ourselves to the changes that occur around us. It advices us to make our surrounding more beautiful with our presence.

She says, I stand firmly even in earthquaqes and famines. It teaches us to empower ourselves to fight and to be able to believe in our strenghts instead of foul cry.

 

She says I believe in being regular. Sun rises and sets at a given time. She therefore teaches us the importance of discipline and timeliness in life.

 

These are some of my observations with my meeting with Nature. I would love to hear everyone’s observations with dear nature and their learnings. You can easily write comments to this and send me your view points and your observations. Let us make this list exhaustive enough that mother nature gets smile back on her face