How green!

Well sometimes I wonder why do we have birthdays, festivals or for that matter all those valentine, teacher's day etc etc.

For a simple reason that we wish to celebrate the person or the thing; on that day exclusively and maybe overdoing it in the process and almost are pardoned to forget it/ him/her on all other 364 days of the year.

Maybe not always; the reason my steering shifts to that direction is for something similar we did few days back on environment day. We went out of the way to a far off place in the city outskrits to plant a thousand sapling via a eco related NGO who has tied down with another firm to take care about the welfare of these newly relocated beings till they attain maturity, hmmmp sounds ok enough.

It was a large almost barren piece of land with shrubs and weeds dotting the landscape and potholes neatly dug all around the place so we can relocate our friends to their new dwellings. Gardening as a hobby and that too in a small backyard seems simple and fun but working with spades and trowel in mud and scorching sun is almost a different ball game. We were sweating good enough to water the plants ourselves, while in another corner coconut water sold like hot cakes. The whole thing looked like a fanfare in itself.



The guest of honor mentioned that this drive is part of a bigger drive to plant a million trees in bangalore, wow, that sure is a big number, and we planted a thousand of those today. The only regret, we would never revisit that place to see how those baby fared. Did that place actually become a green spate of land it was envisioned. The deed was done and the day celebrated & the target met, or did we?

In our zest we humans ravel on the chance to envision, begin an idea a movement, but sometimes once we go past the start line we forget why we came there in the first place. The idea of responsibility of owning the task should be fostered till the end.

And maybe for certain things or people we wouldnt need to celebrate them exclusively but each day by simple smaller gestures the deed would be done.

Hiatus Dot

Its been almost an year or more and to most fellow bloggers (of the year before) I visited I saw the signpost of hiatus either in start or end; for me atleast "the END". Its almost strange that whenever one takes the next step in life the time warps as if few hours were somehow taken back from the day, we get a few more new chores to get involved and the old habits or chores are lost in the run. Ofcourse many would recognise this as a break or timeout for the new things or events just unfolded. But somehow we get so much involved in this run that we really forget on the good things we used to enjoi. There was a time when I was a child and was stuck on spiderman coming on DD and used to cry if I missed an episode and wondered I would ever be someone who misses it out again, and Now when flipping through channels I do come across, it gets flipped as well.

Hmmmph though not the really one of the good things I like to do now but things like playing around, meeting friends more often, spending time with myself. The old list is endless and so is the list we like to do as we move along, so maybe its fair that some things do get lost, but maybe now or more often we should recheck from our checklist of the past, if we are missing on the real things.

Married life sure is different brings in quite a few responsibilities, quite a few new relatonships and ofcourse chores like cooking and cleaning ;) but its fun and you enjoi as long as you keep smiling.

So here's to the new beginning; a toast; Sante!!