Anuradha Khandelwal
It has been 7 months of trying to be cheerful, but the sudden sulleness seems to give the game away. The tiredness takes over every now and then. Emotions are a constant rollercoaster. Why?
This morning as I got up early to catch the birds...all I saw around me was mist and no birdsong. It was deathly quiet, I felt a chill down my spine. September and mist? I looked around and felt an emptiness.
Everything we stood for seems to have been lost.
Sensibilities have changed. The world that I knew- that beautiful familiar world- was no longer mine to hold and nurture.
The familiar sounds
The familiar routines
The familiar smells and aromas
The familiar emotions
all are slipping away from me.
The politeness
The truthfulness
The understanding
The gentle kindness
Why is it all becoming passé?
It frightens me ...does it frighten you too? I look at teenagers and young women around me and I wonder.
What the young lack is
Discipline.
Gratefulness.
Kindness.
None of the children of tomorrow seem to be disciplined. Why? Because their parents never disciplined them. And now they have to deal with it. A whole generation of slouching, unkempt and undisciplined children who sleep through the day and keep awake at night. They aren't people anymore, but owls or bats or aardvarks.
I wonder if will they ever smell the flowers. They want more... bigger, better, greater, larger. Never happy with their lot in life. Kindness has to be in thought, word and deed. Self-obsession leaves no place for kindness. You be kind and kindness comes back to you.
For you younglings to better grasp my old-world ideas, let me make it up to five simple points.
Get up by 7 am
SMILE and be grateful that you live to see another day (don't go back to bed and don't eat in bed either)
Take an afternoon nap.
Be kind when you are about to be judgemental and be gracious in your comments.
Know that "thank you" never hurt anyone!
But for me, it's all just slipping... time too! I am happy that I lived in wonderful times where I was loved for what I was, not how worldly my possessions are
I wonder what my grandchildren will inherit. A world bereft of simple living and high thinking?
Only because they don't like simple!
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