Live it up...

You are making your way through the crowd getting down and getting into the train. Before you know it you are making your way out of the train station through the subways, crossing the busy road to catch the bus to your destination. It starts raining and almost as a reflex you bring to life the colourful canopy above your head, breaking into a sprint to the bus stop. Once reached , you heave a sign of relief and more often than not you find yourself exclaiming “ What rains! My god.. such a trouble!!”

But if you just pause for a moment and rewind the entire sequence, you’d find it all rehearsed , like a well practised drama or play that is being executed to perfection. Its almost as though you schedule a antivirus test every morning at 9, it diligently walks through the files and folders in the same order day after day every day. So does that essentially mean you are a scheduled task too??

We have always been so , right from childhood we have been trained to the same things everyday, except on holidays where we do things with a difference but yet again every holiday we almost ended up following pretty much the same schedule. I must agree college might have been a respite for some of us where we set our own rules and hardly followed them either. Still you lived it, you lived your life the way you wanted.

So what’s different now, you are a responsible working graduate why can’t you avoid the time table? You can walk up to your boss and say I want things my way , I will come in at any time and work from any development centre .No doubt, your wishes will be honoured but of course after you are scrapped off the organisation.

Is there nothing you can do about it then? Do you have to live this way? Not really. Walking through the crowd have you wondered where are all these people headed to, what is it that drives them to work day after day? Think about the beggar who sits at the end of the stairs hoping someone will be kind enough to drop a penny. Once you step out , the beautiful drops of rain that bring out the green in the city and a panorama of vibrantly coloured umbrellas.

These rainbow of colours amidst the gray hues of the tall buildings are such a wonderful sight to see, with the cold breeze brushing against your cheeks . You rush to a shelter and folding your umbrella, wiping water off your glasses. In this hustle you failed to notice the beautiful pattern the rain drops had formed on your glasses. Your palms n fingers turn cold with the water that has touched you, your feet feel the chillness , you feel refreshed from within but only if you stopped enough to notice .Just when you start to inhale the smoke filled yet the most exhilarating smell of rain falling on earth, you see the sun peeking from the dark clouds waiting to flash a beaming smile .That’s how nature tells you in her own way that I am there to surprise you every day in a new way.. Just keep looking out for me....Live it up.!