Haven’t you all noticed that when you now pick up the pencil of a young cousin and scribble something, the writing being produced is beautifully legible??
When you taste the new chocolates in the market, don’t you miss the taste of Nestle chocolate that you can no longer find on the stands?
Haven’t you felt that being a pillion was so much more comfortable that being the rider 24 * 7 and straining your back?
When you taste the new chocolates in the market, don’t you miss the taste of Nestle chocolate that you can no longer find on the stands?
Haven’t you felt that being a pillion was so much more comfortable that being the rider 24 * 7 and straining your back?
(Clicked while on our way to Bodhgaya)
Yes, we all have felt these pangs from within sometime or the else. Basically, as they say that “grass on the other side is always greener” and “you understand the value of things only with time”, you do realize the goodness of things and people when you’ve moved ahead, and gone so far that there isn’t even any scope to look back.
The games I played on Windows 95, or the togetherness of travelling as a family on our Kinetic or even the way I used to be so regular and neat during the school days seems to have gone with the wind. A few days back I became so nostalgic while covering the books of my cousins, that I’ve promised to myself that if I don’t have any job, I’m surely going to cover children’s books for free..(He He).
Dilemma all the way.... Experience Vs. experimentation
Why is it that only when you have all the knowledge that you don’t need to make any major decisions and when you are raw and just so much of clay still, do you have to take great decisions like that of your career, your life etc etc....Experience or experimentation is the essence of life is still unknown to me... I do feel at times that when we were small, it used to such a happy moment to see your friend wearing something new or distinctive, anyhow these days when you find extremely prim, proper and polished individuals, you’re rather jealous of either them flaunting their what we call “so-called attitude”!
I guess it runs in every generation to cling on to their ways or beliefs. You never like the past or the future ones and there arises the “Gen Gap”!
You move on and things change...
Anyhow, guess things happen for the best only! The later games made my reflexes go berserk in seconds, the new ways of commuting and meeting people after months is also bliss and so has the irregularity in my life become adorable. There was a time when I was totally independent ( with regards to no dependence on cellphone, computer, personal vehicle, money.........to infinity), but today I’m crutched with the inevitable things which I doubt even any strong willed person could do away with....You better be a Saint to refrain from all these....
The Balancing Act!
I guess I’m writing this post as all the good times of life are flashing as I am just about to step out of my teens and become a more grown, a supposedly matured ( I’m still a kid guys) and understanding individual.
Hope He endows me with the strength to actually pick up the best from the past and give the best to the future by being the best in the present!
Keep Thinking...Give me answers if you can...!!!
3 comments:
Hello,
The Grass on other side is always greener. I think, we tend to feel like this because, when are faced with problems in life, our mind just wants to escape that problem. And our mind sometimes, makes us to remember only good things of "other side" so that we see "green" on "other side" and feel compelled to move towards that. Most of the times, this is not because the other is really good; but because we don't like our present situation, or some parts of it; consciously or sub-consciously.
If you see green on other side again and again, it may be that, you've not watered well to this side, where you are living presently.
Experience or Experimentation-
You have to see the objective. If to build a business is your objective, see the situation. If the risks are worth, go for experimentation. Or if your only aim is to build business, and you know tried and tested methods, you have your tasks, neatly defined.
But if your only aim is to "experience the life", girl, my suggestion is go for "experimentation".
You will have a wonderful life.
Neo
wow...dat totally hit!! it's like all this whille it was rite there within...n just wen u wrote about it...it just...bammm!! n yeah, we all miss all those things...the "s much better cartoons" on cartoon network, the annual shopping for school uniforms and NEW school bags for every new class...!! wow! the fascination for cool pens wen we had just been promoted to the %th standard...!! Life was beautiful then..wasnt it!! it's a pity we never really got it then! Life's gud even today, n the charm is quite there as well...but the best things of the past...they just pull u back there!!
How many pens did u actually use, my dear??????? Did u ever keep a count? At times, I used to feel that u were gobbling down pens.
As I had said in an earlier comment too, that change is constant. What is it that changes actually? Times change, prespectives change, people change, situations change.......
The sun keeps rising in the morning and setting in the evening. The seasons come as usual and the cycle goes on. People still eat with their mouths, my mother always retorts when people around her comment that everything has changed. Life surely has changed drastically, my mother had gone to school on cycle, I went to college(final year onwards on M50)and you may start using a four wheeler. So, the technology is changing forever. The earlier life was much more peaceful, less hassled and absolutely tension free.We had the transistors, B/W TVs, you have the MP3 players and colour TVs. We had no computers in school n college times.
We had those lovely summer holidays spent at our grandparents' place with all the paapad, achaar n masala making sessions, star gazing, card games, long evening walks, temple visits and much more such fun. Along with the book covering work, we also removed the unused pages from the old notebooks to bind them into notebooks to be used for roughwork.
Nowadays, all are in such a great hurry and hurry is only making everybody worry. Experiences, you will be gathering infinite as you walk the path of life. Experimentations also can be unlimited. You can try out anything in today's era. There hardly seem to be any kind of restrictions. You have to learn to take life as it comes. We have seen so many changes in a short span(40 yrs)- born in a lightless village, walked and cycled to school, listened to two band radio, lived in cowdung covered floored house, used record and casette player, graduated to two wheeler,operated phone with numbered dial, and presently living in a highrise building with lift,using mobile, CD players and computers ofcourse.
Haven't we taken all these changes quite successfully in our stride? The GENERATION GAP can hardly be bridged and hence, it is a gap. We never argued or backanswered our parents. Now, we are quite open to our children arguing and giving their opinion on each and every topic under the sun. So, that is where the change has come in.
We are not averse to the GEN X by any chance. The GEN X children, I feel are very smart, well informed and grounded. They know exactly what they want out of life. I am sure that you will try to fill up the gap between the past and present as successfully as you can and emerge as a knowledgeable, compassionate and mature individual.
God Bless.................
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