Thursday, October 2, 2008

What is life if Full of care

What is life if Full of care
It was just 8:45 am that I came to my office . I was just wondering how the day could be imagining how I wanted it to be Just like a beautiful day .Not rainy not very sunny .Just like a perfect one. It didn’t even matter that I travelled around say about 60 kms one way which takes me aoround one and a half hour to come here stuck in traffic jams and the bad roads on the way . But still hoping it to be a perfect day.
I went to the terrace with my management books with a cup of tea all blenched with ginger and spent an hour immersed in all that terms of our “PrInCiPLes AnD PrAcTiCeS Of MaNaGeMeNt “ pondering over what to teach to the students today ,occasionally indulging in the sneaky joy of being distracted by the birds in the classroom.What a bliss !What a soothing luxury . In the midst of a maddening city like Pune which is beset by horrible weather, I found myself experiencing something different ,rare, unfamiliar but it was happiness . I was just lost . My mind knew that I am in the office unusually not somewhere outside maybe shopping for my baby, or watching a movie with friends or my dance class or curled up in the bed with my favourite books of James Hadley .I suddenly remembered the poem which I learnt in my school days and pondered over it . Leisure, by W. H. Davies

What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?—
No time to stand beneath the boughs,
And stare as long as sheep and cows:
No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass:
No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night:
No time to turn at Beauty's glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance:
No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began?
A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
We really are so much lost these days within ourselves that we hardly have anytime to look at the beauties and the bliss that nature has given us. We go to all those artificial places where we can relieve our stress and also do whatever possible things to make ourselves free from all the worries and tensions that we have for the day . But did we ever think that we have all ready made stress-boosters which are given to us by Our Mother Nature is so free of cost. However she just needs our attention to her at least for say 2 minutes a day

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