We have been taught from kinder garden to appretiate the small things in life and to always compare oneself with those who are less previlaged than us and to feel good about our status and position in life. But some lessons are learnt not from books but by the "real" experiences of life. Probably this is the reason why it used to be so facinating to listen to Grandma's stories coz they come out of "real" world and their philosophy is far more realistic and acceptable than some of the crap in books....
Am sitting in the balcony of my room... I have finally been shifed to a hostel room (was put up in a guest house before). This new room is really really awesome! The best part of it being the sit-out in the balcony. This is my "thinking place" and a little paradise in itself. Bro gifted me this huge teddy-bear which I call "Eddy-Teddy" for my room and am living a very comfortable life out here. The mess food though some-times boring, still is quite good and they try to be innovative and give real weird flavours of ice-creams at-times. My lab is one of the bests of IISc with an amazing supervisor who says "no for nothing". Have gotten real time good friends here and the fun n masti that we do, is inspiring me to write a novel on.
It was an usual saturday afternoon last week when I had been pulled out of bed by my stupid friends at 5:45 coz the tea time in mess is (4:30 to 6). Very half heartedly and with a heavy head I managed to reach the mess constantly cursing my stupid but very caring friends. There we went to our favourite corner near the window and I was gradually coming outta my sleep hangover when I found 4 children looking at us from the window. Must have been the children of the mess workers, I thought. They noticed me noticing them and asked me to pass them bread. Before I could react, Chandu went and got them a pile of bread with jam on top of it. They were happy and ran away.
This incident ignited a spark and a heated arguement began on 'how good was that act'? I didnt understand 'what is bad there'. This is what we have always been taught right, to help the poor. After all its just a matter of a few slices of bread, something which is available in mess everytime and no one touches it. But different people have different perspective and it takes no time for a discussion to take a turn to arguement with things moving from east to west to north to south. People feared these kids will get to this bad habit of begging for their food and will start disturbing and irritating other people in mess. There are days when we ourself are so busy that we just get time to slip in one sip of tea n rush back, who got the time to even pass on that one single bread.
I never saw those children near the mess again, I dont know what happened. But then isnt it sad that there r children who really really are so miserable. I on the other hand, doing nothing but just studing am earning a handful and living a very comfortable life. Trust me if I say my new room is big enough to accomodate a poor family of 4 members. If I really start looking down at people who are lower in status and position than me, am afraid I will start feeling so chocked and guilty that I wont be able to enjoy an ounce of my life.
All I can say is that am just happy that my life is like the way I wanted it. I have a family back there who have been really supportive of my decisions and dont fail to push me to greater heights. I have friends who truely honestly deserve and fit in all the millions and trillions of definition of the word 'friends'. I have been under such fine superwising eyes that their inspiration and words of wisdom are more than enought for this birth of mine and last but not the least, the dear almighty who perhaps is really very fond of me :)
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4 comments:
i have to only say u r a grown up child..:-) so have u started writting the novel. all the best for that.
Shruti.. too much philosophical a post baby.. But then i m happy that some1 passed on the bread to that child.. and I just wish that ppl understand that they shud only give birth to a child wen they know, they can give proper life to them.. Now as a country we are growing and surely.. ppl educated like us.. shud encourage more education and less poverty.. :)
Shruti,
One should always have compassion for those who are less privileged but at the same time ensure that they are given right opportunity to become self reliant. There is no end to doing something for the society. You may even think of spending a couple of hours every evening to coach such children who can not afford tutions but need someone to assist them. You may even start giving them talk on health & hygine as well as visit their living place to see they follow what you tell. There is so much more but I will stop here.
Take care
@ ajay - thanks re... u r always the first one to read my blogs. it really means a lot to me :) abhi toh i just got the inspiration... wil write one soon n am sure u wil b the first one to read that :)
@ subbu - i wish u were there in the mess that day, u would have taken the discussion into sum other direction of its own :)
@ Jack - yes uncle u r absolutly right. rather i do plan out on starting out some volunteree work on serious grounds very soon. am doing a little bit of reserch on the trend here. wil update the stuff soon on blog :)
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