-

Friends,

Sleep eluded me for a long time, last night. The wailing of our little Vedika (well thats what we have named our daughter) and the incessant babble of Siddharth kept me awake till mid-night. Midnights are something which I rarely experience, because in most cases magic sleep overpowers me the moment I hit the sack every night at 10-10.30. Yesterday night I kept awake, rolling onto different sides (wanted to use some other word for "karvat badalna"-but then I dont know the English equivalent of this), listening to some good music and reading some reasonably good books pulled out from our little book shelf. There was something that was disturbing me last night.... possibly I was looking out for something called happiness... some serenity. Tried to speak to Yogi. He was attending a marriage somewhere in Punjab.Then I heard this story which I thought I should share with you guys.

Once upoon a time, long long ago (woh! do you remember such lines from your old story books)... there lived a small bird.

Beautiful, light, cheerful and always happy and smiling. Nothing, nothing could obstruct his ecstacy, his joys, his laughter, his penchant for living in this world. He laughed loud... and loud enough for people to hear him. People in turn loved him.

However not the King of the land.

The king was irritated by his laughters and smiles. He asked his sentry to catch the bird and put him in a cage in his palace.

However, our little friend laughed again,

"Woh! I have the privelge of living in a golden cage in a golden palace, lucky me. Ha Ha!"

The king got further annoyed. He ordered his sentry to keep the bird outside without food and drinks.

" Woh I am so glad to be fasting. I can have fresh air outside. Ha Ha!"

This time the King got still more furious and asked his sentry to kill the bird.

As the sentry were trying to take the bird out, the agile bird gave them an effiecient slip and flying high up said, " King nobody is as poor as you are, you have forgotten to laugh long ago, your entire wealth is useless infront of my happiness. Learn to be happy today"

The bird flue away.

As I heard this little story, ( though not at all very interesting by any standards), I thought am I the king or the bird? Do I laugh and smile or has my life transformed itself into a morbidly mundane machine working for a meagre salary and staying away most of the time from people who mean so much to me.

Many a times life brings us into a strange trajectory from where we begin to see our lives from a different perspective. These days I am trying to learn to be the bird in the story... to smile more... to laugh more.... and to connect more with all of you..

Cheers

Will write to you more about dil, dosti, surgery, money, friends, visits, songs and bosses etc..

Till then

Raju

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Sensitivity and life

-
Sensitivity is such a common word these days. As a matter of fact these days we are bombarded with words galore. We need to be sensitive, understanding, loving and caring and what not. I think sensitivity is the mother of many of human emotions. I rate myself as a sensitive man. However, there have been many instances when I have acted as one of the the most insane and insensitive persons around. I have hurt my friends, relatives and of course my wife in many of the occassions of travelling together in life. But this attribute called sensitivity is interesting. Interesting because it is not something which one can "do" to others. On the other hand it is something which is a way of life. It is something that comes blended in all interactions. In many cases I have failed to understand why I behave in a particular manner, the way I do. In many cases my wife has asked me for my supprt, but I had failed to reach out to her. It is not that I did not want to be with her, but it just
Read more

Why I can't trust myself?

-
Dear life, Why is it so difficult to trust oneself and be confident about ones on abilities.In my own case, I think I find it difficult to believe that I am good in anything. This is so far from truth . People come to me with so many questions about their issues . I am able to tell them exactly what has been their problem. But when it comes to myself , things look different. I ask myself “why?” Does this happen to you .? I guess we can solve most of the problems of the world However when it comes to our own issues , we get bogged down.. we don’t trust enough. It so happened that last month an exhuberent 30s something chap came to my office to see me . I was really hard pressed for time, as I had a flight to catch in the evening. However one of my dear friends had insisted that I meet him, and hence reluctantly I did meet him exactly for 30 minutes . He came to me with one question . He had got an offer from an organisation and whether he should join it. I took the marker a
Read more
-
Friends In the year 2008 I have realised the importance of health. Nothing should/could be more important than a proper physical and mental health conditions. Since the last 6 months I have been attending the Sivananda Yoga Institiute located in Dwarka. I am into this power yoga for about 90 minutes , 4 times a week and the resluts have been stupendous. I have lost some weight, my regular headache and allergies have gone due to jal-neties and feel very postive. Folks start your yoga sessions soon. Raju
Read more