the choice

The morning walk has become my habit. Earlier it was the morning run till I hurt my knee and now I feel comfortable to walk. Now I enjoy the walk as unlike in the run, I am able to feel the nature more intimately. Running increases your heart beat, the heavy breathing drowns the essence of nature, the speed of running changes the scenes too quickly and thus doesn't allow you to soak in the beauty. Till then I never ever felt so good. It was all there, its still there but unless you tune in to a radio station you cannot hear the radio and decipher the radiations in the air, one needs to tune in to the beauties of nature. Its then I realized that I, like most of us, was running, running and running with thousands of ‘to do’ things in my mind. My life was to be a good child who could recite the poems for the guest uncles and aunts, a good student who could get bag full of marks in the examinations so that my parents and relatives could have a spring in their stride, a good sportsman who had won some trophies though for myself but more so for my team and my organizations, an exemplary professional so that the bosses could bank on me. I worked hard, got an appreciation, worked harder and even harder to get more of it.   I had missed something very important. “kuch pane ke liye kuch khona padta hai”. Wish I knew what to choose and what to loose.