Why is the grass always greener on the other side??!!??
A Child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead
and dreams of a faraway place;
A traveller on the plane sees the farmhouse
and dreams of home.
The Greener Grass
Guess, that’s the irony of life. Human desires know no bounds and are far from satisfaction. It’s often a pre-requisite for every individual (consciously/unconsciously) to gauge the light in a gathering. But is it really a necessity? – That still stands out as a million dollar question!
What started out innocently at kindergarten with comparison of dress, school bags and other miniatures, which led to the squabbling and tantrums to get the other-so-nice object, continues to grow subconsciously with us, and royally twines its life with us. Only that what started out as a Mickey Mouse pencil box and hot wheels plastic cars continues to apple iProds and a shiny ever so ”Hot wheel” metal cars. But on second thought, do the apple iProds and metal Hot wheels satisfy us really? Not so, thanks to another acquaintance turns on the light shower on top to talk about the Berry-prods (yea yea the Berry which is Black in colour) and a shinier metal car he owns, constantly trying to push the tiny nagging feel over the corner of his head, which says, ‘iProds cud be better than Blackberry’! Voila!!! No one’s satisfied at the end!
So, where goes the peak aspect of human lives – Emotion? Well, the above could be classified as one type of emotion – jealousy! Barring that, what happened to the other finer aspects of human lives? Let’s start simple with three 4 letter words – L.O.V.E., C.A.R.E., L.I.V.E. Simple to spell, but in truth very difficult to find. Out in the ever-so fast revolving world, most of the homes are turning into houses, devoid of the above 3 simple factors. Result – The grass is always better on the other side. “Oh, his American siblings and their families are doing so well!” The American sibling’s wives think “Oh, his Indian sibling’s wife has everything she needs to raise a perfect family!” would be an almost cliché thoughts going around in most of the households.
Let us think where we are going wrong with this conspiracy. The other day, when my sister and I were going to the office, we had to pull over in the signal. Out of Monday morning blues combined with the monotony included long ride to office, I was staring out of the window, without much options left. There was this tiny 2-ish something kid trotting in the corner of the road, in the scorching sun all by itself. Alarmed, I followed its path to the source and I spotted a man walking before. Somehow the situation convinced me to the assumption that this guy was the kid’s father. Much before I started was absorbed in a state of pity for this tiny thing, an incident that followed, shook me off-hand and made a deeper hole! The man stopped in front of a local wine shop, and turned to look at the kid. The child was crying and managed to close the space between them and hugged the man’s legs. Now this man pushed the clinging child off and went into the shop without a second look. Almost tear welling at eyes I was seeing what the child had to do. Yea, naturally the child still crying followed the man into the shop. The signal turned green and we had to go. But was it in fact green around me? NO, definitely not!
Where does that lead us back to? Bingo the 3 simple words I had spelled out before – Love, Care, Live. Had there been even a bit of Love, the man would have not let the small child walk without sandals to the mercy of the cruel sands – Let alone the scorching sun here! Was there a bit of Care involved, then the man would not have let the child follow him to a wine shop on a Monday morning 9 ‘o clock. LIVE? Now, that would be a parody here. Would it be Live or let Live? Was it Live, then the man would not have decided to walk to a local wine shop and decide to deteriorate his life and health. But, if he had also decided to Let Live, then the poor kid mayn’t be turning into the father’s current replica 20 years later! There we go again. Life is very simple to be Loved, Cared for and Live it to the fullest extent, and thereby letting lives also blossom on the way ahead!
Green or not green, sorry to break your bubble folks, Home rules way beyond any other place and Mom’s food scores better than American Chopsuey at a far away glittery place.
LIVE AND LET LIVE … MAKE WORLD A HAPPY PLACE!
L.O.V.E., C.A.R.E. & L.I.V.E.
