SWEET SOLITUDE

One fine morning in my own little hamlet…

I woke up in my hut and it was already late…

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I walked alone through the stenchy streets

Feeling the fire of penury, heat of sigh and sweet baby cry.

I smelt the pungent tobacco smoke and the

Song of folks that stopped my walk

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I walked alone through the thick forest with

Yellow leaves spread on the ground.

The blue-green sight and snake-rat fight

The chirping - twittering filled my heart

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I walked alone in the city with a sack

Felt the load of leading life

Found the crowd with cold heart and knife

Learnt that life there has no end or start

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Tired I was and I was lost

Sought out a claim to take me fast

The road was the same, from the city

To my hamlet through the forest

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The time was spent in chat and laugh

His heart was sweet, the load was off, but

I lost the blue-green forest sight

The chirping-twittering melody like lute

The yellow leaves and snake-rat fight

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Didn’t smell the tobacco smoke

The song was dull, tired were the folk

Streets were clean, but mood wasn’t green

Nothing original there had been!

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I lost the joy of being alone,

The inner voice and eye within, and

The “SWEET SULITUDE” brought me all

I woke up again and walked alone

Options, choice and Selection

I had almost finished the cup of tea, and was about to leave the tea stall. Suddenly I felt a hand on my shoulder, “Sir, aren’t there customers at the shop?”, I asked Mr.Aravinda. He is a fellow, owning a medical shop at our college campus. “No sir”, he said “no more customers. And I don’t want more customers to be there. More customers mean more number of patients, meaning more disease. Is it worth earning money like that sir?”.

I looked at his face. He was smiling. And his words were firm, affirmating his love towards the people. He continued to tell his story. He is about 40 years old. Before opening the shop, he was a Regional Manager at a pharmaceutical company at Bangalore. Then he got a promotion to some higher post. even though the salary was heavy, the job was hectic. Now he had too many options spread in front of him. Many other companies had offered him good designation, and facilities. But the most liked option for him was to leave the job!!! And he left it, and opened a medical shop at the campus of our college!!! And he even defended that he took the decision for the sake of his family, and the whole family supported him in that situation.

Such things happen!! There occur situations when we are given many options and will be having a chance to choose only one of them!! Look back in your life! you will find thousands of such decisions you have made(or we have made). Most of the times, all will choose the same option. Why is it?

Few times, we are not at all given an option. Nature selects us for something and we have follow what it says. Aravind tells about it-“Sir, are we given an option while deciding our sex? or the sex of our children? It’s the nature’s selection and we always have to nod for it, as we have always done.” Ya, he is quite right. It always true that we are given options only when we deserve to choose. Otherwise, we are only selected., to do something, to obey the natures law..

“So,” he continues, “when we are given options, they are a gods gifts for us. We must choose the best from that to make our lives more beautiful, as I did”. Now, According to me, Aravind is the one of the only few people in the world who are living happily just because of theie choice.