A little talk that helped a lot...
20th June,
Today I talked to my grandmother for a while. The talk was very short but the meaning was very beautiful. It rained after a lot of time in Pune, the start of real monsoon which came really late this year. Water shortage, saving water, tension creeping amongst everyone, especially the farmers. Many a times, in talks of this kind with my mother, I always said, "Our condition is much better than the farmers, it must be so difficult for them to live if it does not rain." Seeing their own crops dying for need of water is the same as seeing your own child die, one you have nurtured with great love and care.
Today at aroung 3 in the afternoon, the sky became very dark, infact this is the time when no one generally steps out of the house, unless urgent. But, it became dark, clouds started thundering loudly and...my alarm rang! I was sleeping peacefully and my grandmother woke me up to say that I should study now. I just begged for 5 more minutes and slept off. Another crash of thunder and I knew I couldn't sleep anymore. Not because the thunder had disturbed my siesta, but because I was happy and I was glad. It had finally started to rain! Normally, in the first week of june or so, the monsoons start. But this year, everyone was starved for the sight of rain. I exclaimed happily, "Yes, its raining!" And I fell back on the covers, smiling. My grandmother came and sat next to me and said quietly, " Just look at the immense and mystical power of the sun. How he achieves the impossible, he pulls upward water of the sea, without the salt. Just imagine what would happen if it would rain salty water. What would happen of everyone then? Every living being would die. Not a soul would remain alive. And imagine live without water. " Jalameva jeevanam" they say in Sanskrit. " Water is life." That water which always flows downward, that same water is pulled by our sun. We call it "EVAPORATION" but it is just another miracle of nature. We curse the summer, but that same summer provides us with so much! Think of yourself, being stranded in a boat, with no water to drink in the middle of the sea, 'water, water everywhere, not a drop to drink!!'
I learned a great lesson that day, how we inevitably go back to nature the way we came into it, how we start accepting that nature is someone much much greater than man. And how we easily take everything around us for granted, when we lose it , we realise its value.
Today I talked to my grandmother for a while. The talk was very short but the meaning was very beautiful. It rained after a lot of time in Pune, the start of real monsoon which came really late this year. Water shortage, saving water, tension creeping amongst everyone, especially the farmers. Many a times, in talks of this kind with my mother, I always said, "Our condition is much better than the farmers, it must be so difficult for them to live if it does not rain." Seeing their own crops dying for need of water is the same as seeing your own child die, one you have nurtured with great love and care.
Today at aroung 3 in the afternoon, the sky became very dark, infact this is the time when no one generally steps out of the house, unless urgent. But, it became dark, clouds started thundering loudly and...my alarm rang! I was sleeping peacefully and my grandmother woke me up to say that I should study now. I just begged for 5 more minutes and slept off. Another crash of thunder and I knew I couldn't sleep anymore. Not because the thunder had disturbed my siesta, but because I was happy and I was glad. It had finally started to rain! Normally, in the first week of june or so, the monsoons start. But this year, everyone was starved for the sight of rain. I exclaimed happily, "Yes, its raining!" And I fell back on the covers, smiling. My grandmother came and sat next to me and said quietly, " Just look at the immense and mystical power of the sun. How he achieves the impossible, he pulls upward water of the sea, without the salt. Just imagine what would happen if it would rain salty water. What would happen of everyone then? Every living being would die. Not a soul would remain alive. And imagine live without water. " Jalameva jeevanam" they say in Sanskrit. " Water is life." That water which always flows downward, that same water is pulled by our sun. We call it "EVAPORATION" but it is just another miracle of nature. We curse the summer, but that same summer provides us with so much! Think of yourself, being stranded in a boat, with no water to drink in the middle of the sea, 'water, water everywhere, not a drop to drink!!'
I learned a great lesson that day, how we inevitably go back to nature the way we came into it, how we start accepting that nature is someone much much greater than man. And how we easily take everything around us for granted, when we lose it , we realise its value.
Mohana.
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