The Summer s already come in the hot land of Texas where I live.... The spring existed only for a week as if it were exempted from staying and remained only for the sake of attendance....
Summer I love because of the breeze that flows past in the morning and evening like a compensation the weather has provided for being harsh during the day...
But the Summer here is so different, makes me nostalgic and yearn for my country.. The breeze flows but it doesnt carry the scent of jasmine..... Nor the sweet bitter enigmatic flowering scent of the neem...I miss the resplendent bloom of the gulmohurs... the most beautiful tree in the world... The red canopy of flowers on a leafless tree...
I miss the road side stalls selling buttermilk and sugarcane, ( would be called unhygienic , I would call it Immune boosting) ,probably they would also be canned here.... the date palm fruits( called Nunju in telugu and Nungu in tamil)...
The thing I would miss terribly are the mangoes... the benisha , banganpalli fruits.. tasty and delicious...
Or the sweet moments with the family when the power is shut off to conserve energy, talking of all the memories lying on the terrace looking at the starry night...
The smell of water on parched earth and the various methods to cool the room.... the different birds that came on a migratory tour... blue, yellow coloured, small, long, twittering beings that liven up the morning....
The children here would have never known this.. they have memories of playing on various rides in an amusement park.. but to live in a land which still has places unspoiled by corporate world, My country, its heaven....!!!
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Good start, Dee. But c'mon be optimstic there are great things here too.
Sandhya,
Whatever you said now is beautiful in nostalgia but you certainly will not relish them in practice. Happiness cannot be enjoyed unless it is shared and once shared, it doubles up. Even in the hot summers with current off, still you relished nostalgia and even today the same. We must successfully surge ahead and make most futures past, so that we can keep enjoying them from the shelves of memory. Happiness is in nature but more so in the minds. Whatis the size of this universe ? Perhaps you will break your brains to quote the largest size possible .. infinite is a compromise answer ... But I would say the size of this world is ' Mindsome '
Bye for now. Enjoy every bit of TExas. As Sundari wrote, there is lot there to enjoy. Do not waste time thinking of the absent, but enjoy the present. btw, hai to sundari. Anna.
I see wat u mean... and not to mention...i agree wid u. i remember my last summer in texas...jeez... it scares me...am better off in india than being here in texas. lol
Every regret / dissatisfaction is an opportunity for continuous improvement...
Common girls ... Try to make Texas into a mini India...
Anna / GS.
Thinking about past in not pessimistic. When you miss out something, it is not that you are not seeing the new things.
The world as it is in the pure unadulterated form is more beautiful than the form that is made to look good. The broken voice of the little child is more melodious and creates happiness than the best set music or raaga in the entire world.
Dear Sundari ! Optimism does not mean that you forget about the past. Hear the meaning of "Optimism" first. When you are facing defeat or dejection, the "Hope" that success and mirth may be ahead is Optimism. Here 'Hope' means a state of imbalance, therefore 'Optimism' is a state of imbalanced 'illusion', as means of self-satisfying conduct of mind. Whereas, when you think of the past happiness or mirth, that is 'observation'. The visualisation of the future is 'Speculation'. Well, I am not here to teach English to you. However, I think you would do well to remember some things.
Hey Chums !, it is good to see that you love your simplistic country so much. Know what, I recently found out, that the human's happiness is always associated with food, food and food only. All talk of this and that is a pure waste of time. The world lives for food and good delicious enjoyable food alone. People may do well to remember that Europeans tried to find route to India by sea to avoid the forbidden land beyond Alps only to make their food more tastier.(they came for masala and species), the moslems/arabs/desert hordes invaded India only because India was a land of plenty in the past days. (It is even now, or else how do you expect a country about 1/6th of U.S.A's size support more that 5 times the population of U.S.A., and these fellows cry about our food even these days).
Hey chums, there is a past saying that a human (actually they said man, I am being politically correct, since these western world seems to entice more indian women (a surefire way of destroying cultures is to weave away the women), and if I say "man", some preacher or UNO report sitting somewhere in a centralized air-cooled electrically lighted office, might say that woman are the most degraded in India, and after water and salt, one thing is the last thing that I dont want a culture to lose). NOW BACK TO MY SAYING - "A human has to drink the water of at least five places, if he is to be termed wise". Here, the places mean varied areas of inhabitation and non-inhabited habitations, geographically, culturally, or otherwise. The drink here means "not a drink"but "KNOWLEDGE" (that knowledge need not be by experience alone is a reality. Knowledge can be surely acquired by the travel of mind and it is in fact acquired only by the travel of mind, and not by the body. Example: Yourself, as long as your mind is present in India alone, it will not matter wherever you go, you will see India alone. But on the other hand, if you remember India and also see the visible side, your mind will start comparing and you shall know more.
If I know my chums very well, I know that you are learning and learning things in an involved manner, without getting carried away. that's goood.
Knowledge is acquired only by comparative thought and study, and comparative thought requires memory of the already read or the seen (in short the past). New things in the world are found out only by the trial and the error method. Not by the dogmatic approach or acceptance that whatever said by some papers of UNO and repeated in many ads repeatedly (If someone is going to accept it just like that, pity on them, NO DONT TRY TO CHANGE THEM -- the world is funny, a mixture, a relativity of humans in all measures, the mind is also relatively co-existent, in fact it is this inequality tried to equalised in so many ways which gives a lot of time-pass (Indian word) from birth till death (two inevitabilities), there are the different ranges of intelligence and understanding like the small tricling stream of water on a dining table to the roar of the falls, a small drop of water on the surface to the biggest drop of water on the surface of the earth. All are co-existant, so are some people like me, you, sundari, swetha, skin doctor,.....etc.etc...
Now I should ask, is the world "SANE ?" OR "INSANE ?", he hehehehe, I would say both, and both are relative. Now that's a different subject.
Hi akka,
Its so nice to remember our home, in a very far place like this which is infact a desert in the forest. I feel the same as u do akka...
I agree wid u sandy...i too fell d same...
i ll definitely miss munju fruit and the mangoes.....
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