Imagine this scene, you are right in the middle of your chaotic life.. rush home from work, cook dinner , co ordinate between washing machine ,ironing, clean the house, buy groceries catch bits and pieces of the talk show on TV ..when all of a sudden there is a power failure! You are left in darkness and you have absolutely no way of continuing all those hajar things you had to do .. and somehow till power comes back .. they actually seem unimportant!
It was one such scene I experienced last week and I promptly threw open the windows of my living room, plonked myself on the window ledge and gazed out at the stars, the neighbouring buildings, the ever flowing traffic and the shadows of the hills on the horizon. All of a sudden I got this feeling that life just stopped! One minute you are caught in this maddening stream of chores that ‘have’ to be completed and the next minute since they cannot be done there is no urgency to complete them immediately.
I think that’s the funny thing in life you set rules for yourself, sometime stringent ones and you try so hard to live by those rules, some of us killing ourselves in the process! We forgo the things we would love to do, just so that ‘we’ can live up to those rules that we have set for ourselves!What never strikes us is to question these rules or to relax them a little bit!
Nope, that never strikes our mind, but what does sadly is the failure if we don’t live up.. or the fatigue, which comes with trying hard to live up!
Hmm, the ‘bulb’ glows at last!
4 comments:
Hi Preeti,
what you said is perfectly true. A good one.
Still In LaLa Land
For some the Blub goes off, only every once in a while. While there are the rest, for whom it never goes on and it's gazing n lazing Time all day through! Are you thiking "Me". No way, I do more than that, uh....Don't I?
Well.. there is a group of species whose headlights fire up and do good things with it... there is this other one whose lights are always off and they go where their legs go... finally there is this species whose lights fire up but would care less to use it and later repent after a crash! I proudly hate the fact that I belong to the third one!! Grr!!
More thattuvam posts are welcome!!
Nice One, preethi. Good to hear that you are really involved in your household. Things have changed.......
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