An Anecdote.

Wake up a little late…Manage tasks in hurry…Rush to office by 9:00…Work throughout the day like a bull…Stay late nites either for building your career or getting appraisals. This in fact is the 24/7 schedule of most of the S/w engineers for there’s neither spiciness nor zest in life…

Well, this is a short anecdote which I presume would take each of us back for a couple of moments into our good old childhood days cherishing those past reminiscences…

Today I work as a s/w engineer .I have enough bucks to lead a so called life but no time to spend .I have a comfortable bed, but hardly find time to take a short nap. I have friends but no time to enjoy their company. I own a mobile to ring my parents every day, yet I miss their presence…In short I miss my family, friends and food…I miss everything.

It was Saturday morning just after the dawning hours. I conceived to go for a morning walk after a pretty long time on the never ending IT highway. The roads seem to be glassy unlike regular weekdays where the roads are busily jammed up with white collared professionals all around.

As I walked along, the sudden spatter of rain, the chirpy behavior of birds, the most fascinating sight of the silver lining across the clouds and the beautiful rainbow made my heart leap with immense joy for a while…All drove me into stillness taking me into those nostalgic past memories.

I remember those blissful school days where my teachers and friends filled my life with fun and frolic during class hours and playtime, which mesmerize me till day.

I remember those saccharine school days where I spent hours together talking to my school girl friend.

I remember those honeyed happy days where during my school vacation, I spent days together gazing at the sky to enjoy the nature’s beauty trying to catch it’s glimpses and carving on a piece of canvas.

I remember those euphoric college vacation days spent at my granny’s village where the sprightly twigs shooted up to advent the green splendor across the paddy fields, filling the nature’s cradle with infinite gladness transforming earth into painted canvas.

I remember those glad days of yore where I drenched in rain delighting to utmost the charming spell in the nature’s lap.

I remember those felicitous days where my friends secretly brought a cake and wished me at sharp 12:00 to ring the birthday bells.

I remember those fortunate days where I spent weekends with my family relishing my mom’s delightful dishes.

Last but not the least I remember those paradisiacal bitsian days where friends added colours to my life, nevertheless my best friend added a special speck to it though he tried wrangling with me very often…

I remember those special ones whose love unfurls in my tissue and whose presence intensifies with a warm feel in the heart even while they are miles apart...
I remember those who have always been a source of cheer and whose notions being always near...
I remember those who spread the supernatural joy and brightness in my life with a hope of discovering light amidst darkness….

I remember those past memories big or small that made me who I am…

Entangled in the busy schedule of life, today one hardly spares time to share and care.Life has become a busy zone, love & care is now traversing a walk alone. Life no more seems like eternity for happiness rests far away from the depths of reality…

The tender tides wishing to rise up to get the unknown prize, find no time to fondle the living feet in surprise…These young s/w larids had set to soar their dreams into reality over this booming-tech sea…These tired young minds seem to hunt for a carefree joyride into the dusk in the quest of finding happiness lying below the life's horizon…

Money is the only issue today, no more loving warmth being coherent in the human tissue!Peace seems to fade from our enmeshed lives for there's everything here except that old love and care.

Relations seem to have got far apart for everyone is trapped in this life’s grip.No longer can one find a Soul-Satiating Salubrious Smile, for this narrow restless life is hovered with never-ending dreams wider enough.

Though placed amidst the most adorably flamboyant stars of nature’s cradle, stretching across the infinite firmament with scintillating waves of artistic opulent beauty beneath, these tired young minds can no longer admire this resplendent world for that pleasing sense of delight no longer exists within these souls…

A Queer land, I always dream of where no one is two-faced, the impetus being eternal love, leaving no traces of trounces and mishaps nor the signs of neaps and gasps in life…

Trying to nurse the notion of being lonely, I manage to write poems which infuse an insight into past moments leaving memories to be treasured forever and a day… It’s the language of the soul that dispenses love to nature, delivering joy to people. It’s the melody in the gentle wind, the viridity in the nature and the freedom from hideous evil.

Stephen’s meet with Bapu…In the midst of extreme poverty.

Bapu once decides to see the plight of people in India…Though he could see from heaven,significant progress in terms of development, the very notion of certain things, especially extreme penury in India keeps him baffled…

Bapu walks on one of the busy pavements in a street in Mumbai…Everyone is busy in the scheduled lives and no one cared to notice his presence…One of the kids named Stephen, a daily rag picker suddenly notices Bapu and the conversation between them begins…

Stephen (With great astonishment): Bapu, What a splendid surprise visit to the nation…

Bapu (With a pleasant smile): May I know ur gud name pls. my son…

Stephen: Sure. I’m Stephen, leading a life on these busy streets of uncaring city. I am shelterless orphan.

Bapu could see Stephen’s skin being gripped by the chilling cold, his eyes squinted, pleading and begging to the passers-by displaying his horrific specter of penury. He stands helpless, holding the two slices of dried bread in either of the hands, as his precious opulence of the day.

Bapu(tears rolled down his eyes ): Stephen, let’s go to some pleasant place.

Stephen: Ahh! Bapu, U cannot find such a placid place here…If u wish, we can go to the nearby beach…

Bapu and Stephen started walking and soon reached the beach. Soppy sand seeped between Bapu’s toes, the tender tides fondling his feet…

Bapu: I could see many people speaking to themselves…Is there something wrong?

Stephen: Hmm…They aren’t speaking to themselves,they are on some conversation with their dear ones…that is the mobile technology which had greatly impacted the normal lives for even a small vendor owns a mobile handset these days…

Bapu: Grt! Even heard lots of software revolution…

Stephen: Yes, It has brought about great prosperity to the nation…Of course, the condition is bit worse now as the industry observers say the IT sector is heading towards a recession which would be worse than the one it had witnessed in any sector in the past.

Bapu: Let’s not discuss abt these white collar jobs…I feel they can somehow manage living.Is everyone so busy that this year on Jan 30^th ,only 30 seconds silence was observed instead of 2 minutes silence unlike past…Anyways,I’m not worried if they observe silence or not. All my worry is that I expect every individual to be concerned abt the poor and spare some of their valuable time to help the homeless…

Stephen: Only few people have time to help people like us because their present schedule keeps them busy all the time…

Bapu:Even more than 50 yrs after independence from almost 2 centuries of British rule, large scale poverty remains the most shameful blot on the face of our nation. Our nation has the largest no of poor people, 75 percent of the inhabitants still reside in rural areas, majority in slum areas, more than 40 percent of population is still illiterate.

Though economic prosperity has indeed been very impressive, but the distribution of wealth has been very uneven…

Stephen: What you say is absolutely correct… Population growth rate far exceeding the economic growth rate being one of the prime significant reasons for poverty in the nation…Increasing focus on education, increasing empowerment of women and economically weaker sections of the society is expected to contribute to the alleviation of poverty, which of course can be a very long time goal…

Bapu: Let’s take the instance of you people leading a life on these busy streets…I understand life in such uncaring city is joyless…Yet countless men, women and especially children manage to find solitude sometimes in each other ,sometimes in soft drugs…

Stephen: Most of my friends are neither helped by govt. or charity during their entire lives on streets. Hope everything will turn out better one day… It’s time for me to pick up rags to earn my daily bread…See u Bapu…

Bapu: Get well soon, my son…

It’s not the task of govt. alone but it’s the responsibility of every citizen to strive towards some social noble cause helping the downtrodden.

Pls.help the poor and the homeless!

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