I am like most women well heeled,
But pathetic behind the wheel :)
As I travel to work each day, 14 kms in all by the 3 wheeled transport of an autorickshaw, I get to understand and talk to people of all kinds. I feel a special bond with most of my fellowbeings during the commute :)...the collective emotion we feel when we are all struck in traffic, the abuse that touches the tip of one's tongue but doesnt come out as we dont want to draw attention to ourselves, the stickiness at the nape of one's neck especially during summer, or the discomfort in bargaining for a rick when the roads are flooded and rain pours its anger on us...
As i feel i also think, at times I amuse myself by imagining what could be the vehicle of each person on the road :) Every God in our scriptures has an appropriate vahan, if we were to choose one of our own, would it be a bird, a mouse, an elephant or a clever fox??? the mind just doesnt stop working and the amusement is soo engaging that I loose myself in the tales I spin around complete strangers...
But there are times when I do think, think like the gyaanis and wonder...y cant we develop a system of emotional stability? Why cant we focus our emotions on positive thoughts and try to make little differences, why cant we address little hiccups on roads by building a collective bond...instead of wasting ones mind and thoughts on abuses and blame game shouldnt we focus on thinking how we could change things around us???
The grandparents who gave us our values are not there for our little ones - as our parents continue to drive the material bandwagon...
The teachers who were parents during most part of our day are busy hopping jobs and take teaching as a profession only as a stop gap professional choice, before they could get into better roles and job opportunities
The really dedicated teachers are often neglected or become victims of politics in the functioning of the institutes they represent
There is a poet, an artist in that techie whose job everyone envies but only does the individual know that he doesnt love what he does...
Will we ever a build an emotional system where our children arent forced
to flaunt the toys(gadgets) they own
or talk of the cars their parents bought or
the vacations they went to or
the many things that give them a particular material edge????
Could we build a system where they dance in the rain,
dirty themselves in the playground,
eat lollies on the roadside,
smell the flowers,
steal mangoes,
and fight with their grandparents and then convince them to carry them around :)
that glint of mischief,
that innocence of longing for life's little joys - that walk in the park, that school picnic, those days of funny secrets (secrets they most often forgot..hehehe)
keep failing and yet learning...
Shouldnt we start letting life lead its course, letting light define the form :) allow the formless and boundaryless to redefine this life that is sooo predefined everyones collective definition of existence :):)....
2 comments:
God has built a system (product) to do all these with enough emotional stabilities; unfortunately, He didn't create proper carrier for the emotions, and has made it more complicated by assigning the emotional intensity level differently among us. Your thoughts are good. Other creatures in our environment do act according to certain collective stability (don't know whether it is emotion though). Such as ants; the movements of ants are in such a way that they do understand the who is in front and in back, and sometime even scarifies the life for the entire ants colony!
hmmmm..i agree sometimes we seem to be running too fast and ignoring the perfect balance that nature has created all around.In our quest to succeed at a superficial, shallow level, we tend to ignore the cues that our own internal system gives - there are times when we feel like hugging a friend realisin that they are communicating thru their eyes but ignore those indicators and only listen to the words :)
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