WALKANAMA......1

Walkanama

You may call it not so good manners,I have this unusual habit of observing the activities and people around me unobtrusively.And my ears only are the generally operative instruments active at that time,and very rarely my eyes lend a fleeting glance in this exercise.That many a times gets me lots of insight into my environment and enriches me through many invaluable words of wisdom coming unwittingly and unknowingly from almost people otherwise unknown to me.I thank them in my heart although externally,I hardly have interacted to them at all.So in this series I would share observations during my morning or evening walks.

Today being the 67th Independence day celebration,the park in the morning was filled with more than usual crowd of morning walkers.But few of the conversations and sights, which caught my eyes, were quite interesting.

The first one was the cautionary call of a loving father to his four year son,who was straying away from the main walking track very often in his enthusiasm to display his athletic abilities.The father called the child,"Bharat,udhar nahi idhar se chalo.tum galat rashte pe ja rahe ho." Even though,it was  a casual conversation between the child and his father,but the the name of the child made me look back and then ponder over the deeper meaning of what those words meant in the context of our country.I wished that our country too had a loving father like the child had,who could make course corrections out of love and care for the country with as much responsibility. And then I saw another kid tugging at the shirt of that child,"Haan..Bhalat bhaiya,udhal chhe nahi,idhal chhe chalo"(The words in his childish tone said,"Come on,let us go on this path instead of that path"). I wished that all of us were as compassionate and persuasive to our countrymen in dealing with differences of opinion.

Jai Ho...Salute the spirit!!!