Nature teaches many things everyday and it helps to realize your forgotten-wisdom. Being so near to the nature and becoming a part of it really evokes your senses to life.
There is a lake in Taipa, which I like very much. It is encircled by casinos, House-Museum, a basket-ball court, a park and some wild-bushes. The park spread between the Museum and the lake is lined with wooden-benches each accompanied with a tree and pathways for jogging.
One evening, there were many people in the park. Some couples were photographing each other and some other was playing with their children. At a distance, there was an elderly couple, who were starting in the empty-air hand-in-hand, probably visualizing their youthful memories. A kid was trying to chase was plucking flowers from the garden and then a dry-leaf being sweet away by the cool breeze. When he fell down, his mother came running and carried back to her husband.
Bearing no flower, lotus leaves spread across the lake, with frogs jumping on them occasionally. A jungle duck was floating with the waves. It ducked-in when the ripple was low and swallowed a little fish in a single gulp.
It is refreshing & rejuvenating to listen to water-ripples, rolling dry-leaves, kukus and laughing babies at a time. I sat on a bench on lake-front and was relishing the 5-Star chocolate, while watching bird-life nesting on the bushes alongside. Majority were white-cranes with a few numbers of pigeon and sparrow.
From no-where, there came a brown-eagle which rounded the lake twice, in less than five minutes. A sparrow (or some small bird of that kind) started following this eagle. While the eagle was swiftly gliding in the air with its wide wings, the sparrow was trying hard to catch-up by fluttering its tiny arms. When the eagle took a great lead in two big strokes, the sparrow was left far away. The sparrow returned to the nest. There were similar birds in the neighboring nests and all but one paid no attention. Probably, they are its parents.
The daylight started trailing-off with the disappearing Sun, but my mind and heart were just lit for working better.
Once in college-days, I was very inspired with the acts of a movie-actor and trying to mimic him, I tried to jump across a pavement-divider in a brisk leap. I’ve almost jumped, but my energy and velocity wasn’t enough for jumping over. My foot got hooked to the divider and I fell down. I laughed, along with my friend, at my childish miscalculation of attempting a jump with no run-up at all.
After starting to earn, one day when all my roomies left me alone for their office-event, I spent fifteen hundreds on an expensive meal. I ate all the varieties I love, ranging from mushroom to panneer and from chicken to prawn. I’ve not only troubled my tummy, but also emptied my wallet. I learnt that inflow should be proportionate to the outflow and activity. And, by the next month I learnt that my expenses should also be proportionate to my income.
Wisdom comes with experience. Though we get to know from multiple sources, few things are learnt only when one faces them in reality. Some lessons are learnt at a cost, may that be time, money or even a relation. Unless we try we'll not be able to know our capabilities.
For the good or bad, the little sparrow could learn the truth by its voyage. It was very courageous and daring to fly on the waters, not even knowing how far it can fly & for how long. Yet it had to pursue its will, or will never in its life be peaceful. Though satisfaction is a feeling felt only by saints and the eternal, and read only in literature, the little bird will at least be answerable to its own heart.
I'm very grateful to my parents who permitted me for pursuit of my instincts for nature, travel and friends, than restricting me to monotony. They let me choose my options in life, under their guidance and support. I know people who obeyed to their parent's decision decades before, and after living with their obeisance for half of their life, now complain on their parents who have passed away. Had they had tried listening to their youthful-heart than obeying the wisdom of parents, they won't have to repent now and hurt the hearts of the loving elders.
The sparrow found out that its' destiny is to nest on the bank, and feed its family.
I'm yet to find mine.
