My wise friends...

I have a niece who is around 12 yrs old, once she came to visit me in delhi. At that time i was doing my masters...i remember, once i was loaded with some assignment..and i instead of working on it in the morning..pushed it evening and so sat working on it pretty late....she came and said the next day, akka if u had done it earlier, you did not had to sit so late and maybe we both could have gone out...

I felt at that instance, yep you are right....new generations are lot more systematic/intelligent :) Kids sometimes teach us so much.

One my way to back from office, i meet a girl occasionally, who asks me to join her game....when i am with her...life seems so much fun....and all my troubles seem so small/stupid. When i am not in a mood to play because of something that happenned in office, she asks me what happenned, when i tell her at a high level what happenned...she will just say...tell him u r katti and will not talk to him because he said x...

I sometimes feel, her advices make perfect sense :)

The child in me, gets thrilled when i do something not expected for adults, like leaving early from office to see a movie, getting off on my way back to a shopping area, and just roam for a while...,not working sometimes in the office and telling the boss directly, i don't want to work today, and when i get to hear a approval nod from the boss... as if some adult has allowed a kid to go play and study later....starting to sing not caring who is hearing...

There has been not some good moments, when i act like this...recently i said to my team, i hate planning...and i see my PM looking at me with surprise...as though thinking, i thought she is the most experienced among the lot here, a seasoned senior associate, she seems so immature.

We all have a kid within us i guess, who wants us to return to childhood once in a while... break free from this world of logic/responsibility for a while and return to simplicity, innocence, small joys...where the rules are very simple....2+2 is always 4, 1+3 cannot be four :)

Basically telling us, life is not that complex as u make it sound :)

Want to Wander...

I know of a bird, which has left the cosy nest, and has wandered out to explore the world. She does not want to follow the norm which her clan has followed so far.

I had a talk with her and she said, i just want to go where life takes me, i don't have any destination in mind, i just want to experience things, as they unfold.

She was telling me about her journey so far, the kind of people she met...a boy who was lost in the world of art, for whom nothing else mattered...his life devoted to understand art....a girl who was a bundle of joy and who would make friends at the drop of a hat...a Chinese lady, who could not communicate with her, but her warmth was beyond the boundaries of speech...
and she carried on and on....

i asked her don't u want to stop somewhere and make your home.

And she said, wherever i am, its my home.

I said don't you want achieve something, something u can be proud of, like your cousin who has settled in Himalayas, and has set an example that nothing is impossible for a sparrow.

People who are close to you must be expecting something from you.

She laughed and said, do i need to achieve something for myself or others. If i can live the life with a open mind, i would be satisfied...

And then she started to talk about the future travel plans she had, she wanted to visit someone old aunt of hers who is very wise and how times flies when she is with her....and she wants to go to Antarctica and see the penguins..

She told me about her friend/guide wind, who is all wise and tells her of the interested places she should go to...i said, can u introduce me to your friend wind.

I also want to wander....