"Distance la moonu moonu... moonu colouru white-u", a snippet of the song that went viral on Youtube.
Ah! the moon... in its full white glory has been creating never ending pages of creative comparison to various things on earth, from love... to a woman.. from the writers.. to the poets.
Look a little closer and
you will notice that the white moon is not all that white but it has all these dark patches called the "lunar maria" (basaltic plains) formed from rapid cooling molten rock and so it goes... scientifically speaking.
Our Bangalore is such a moon, well we don't have rapid cooling rocks but we have our dark patches and that's all the amoeba shaped potholes on the roads. If I were to stand on the moon and look at the Bangalore telescopically I would see the same thing. Only that if I was the citizen of the moon I would be thinking these patches to be craters created by meteor hits on the earth. To come to think of it, it may even look like Earth had a war with the meteors that they really hit themselves so hard on to the earth to make such oddly
shaped craters and them deep too.
All of us have been through one of them or all of them during our stay in this Garden city. People have written letters, petitioned, protested or even sued the Govt for this but it has always remained. Me being an ordinary citizen watched to know what the outcome of such flag raising initiatives would be, very well knowing that it has always...remained.
Everytime when you were over one, you find the shocks of your precious bike taking the brunt or your german engineered suspensions of your car compress to its maximum level, which it may not even have been designed or tested for, figuratively. You felt your bone crunch all the time.
It did for me, and like any other peace loving Indian, I just waited for that patch to be covered by an overnight act of Gods wearing khaki uniform. But with all that crunch I didn't enjoy the bitter feeling I had all the time when I was trying to have a great day either at office or a happy friend's party or a trip to the mall to catch my favourite movie.
I decided to act, within me.
All I did was to look at the same things differently. I picked out the best day when I was the best of me and ventured out and passed through all those irritating roads. I went with the belief that I will let go of my misery and voila! there it was, the wave of positive thoughts which made me see these oddly shaped craters suddenly starting to appear like the countries of the world.
Our Bangalore is such a moon, well we don't have rapid cooling rocks but we have our dark patches and that's all the amoeba shaped potholes on the roads. If I were to stand on the moon and look at the Bangalore telescopically I would see the same thing. Only that if I was the citizen of the moon I would be thinking these patches to be craters created by meteor hits on the earth. To come to think of it, it may even look like Earth had a war with the meteors that they really hit themselves so hard on to the earth to make such oddly
shaped craters and them deep too.
All of us have been through one of them or all of them during our stay in this Garden city. People have written letters, petitioned, protested or even sued the Govt for this but it has always remained. Me being an ordinary citizen watched to know what the outcome of such flag raising initiatives would be, very well knowing that it has always...remained.
Everytime when you were over one, you find the shocks of your precious bike taking the brunt or your german engineered suspensions of your car compress to its maximum level, which it may not even have been designed or tested for, figuratively. You felt your bone crunch all the time.
It did for me, and like any other peace loving Indian, I just waited for that patch to be covered by an overnight act of Gods wearing khaki uniform. But with all that crunch I didn't enjoy the bitter feeling I had all the time when I was trying to have a great day either at office or a happy friend's party or a trip to the mall to catch my favourite movie.
I decided to act, within me.
All I did was to look at the same things differently. I picked out the best day when I was the best of me and ventured out and passed through all those irritating roads. I went with the belief that I will let go of my misery and voila! there it was, the wave of positive thoughts which made me see these oddly shaped craters suddenly starting to appear like the countries of the world.
There was Australia, there
was China, South Africa, Canada, the 42nd state of the US wow and with my
passion to travel, I started travelling on each and every one of them avoiding
the mountains and avoiding the deep valleys but picked my plateaus and made
sure that my Apollos and my MRFs went through them while I savoured the feel of
travelling around the world. Did I hear someone say 80 days? I did that in 30
minutes or 60 minutes!
My days became brighter,
and I had a lot more fun. I was looking forward to see which country I'm
going to go through each day and that gave me a simple
satisfaction of going through my day with a 'smile'. I may not have figured out
a way to change the system but I have surely made a stride in changing me and I
will work to make this a habit to make myself 'smile' so that I could spread it
to my entire world.
So let me know which
country have you been to today! with a smile! :-)
(Written adaptation of my speeches from Toastmasters)
