Hope

I have been reading the book "Act of Love" where a top notch theater actress Jessica meets an accident and is no more capable of walking straight or walking without a cane, she no more looks beautiful with her gray hair and a stoop. She isolates herself from the rest of the world especially from theater, New York and her closest friend Constance (an 80+ years old lady and a retired top notch actress herself), on an Island of Lopez.

Luke, a top theater director and grandson of Constance reads her conversations with Jessica in her exile after death of Constance and decides to find out more about Jessica because he falls in love with her while reading her letters to Constance. He goes to Lopez island and finds Jessica but Jessica looked nothing like what he had imagined her from her letters and what he had seen her like before. He returns without meeting her, but is not able to stop loving her and goes back to meet her. He falls in love and makes Jessica fall in love with him, herself and he discovers a little flicker of hope that Jessica was hiding inside her to return to theater. He loves her, probes her and pokes her to return to theater.

Finally Jessica does return to theater not in New York but in Sydney, as director, and with help of Hermione she finally becomes the actress she always wanted to be.

The interesting thing is even when she had put herself in exile where she neither talked to anyone or meet anyone she kept a dog named "Hope" with her.

A hope is a wonderful thing and can make miracles happen. :)
It's a hope that leads us forward and makes the whole journey called life worthwhile. Jessica found the love of her life in Luke and a friend of lifetime in Hermione but only because she had a hope inside, a little spark; with this she could achieve everything she had exiled herself from, thinking people wont accept her the way she is now.

Now starts my story.
This is the favorite time of year for me, onset of Summer. It's little hot though but I am sure soon some drizzle will render the whole city cool and green. Why this time is my favorite because all of a sudden the green trees around start bearing blossoms Yellow, Pink and Purple; trees are often laden with flowers only. Mango trees are laden with tiny first fruits of the season. They make an awesome view to my eyes and my heart. Perhaps they all symbolize Hope. Hope of new season a new beginning and hope of everything. I know its already March but March has been the official year-end for schools, offices and financial year and a promise of a new beginning since childhood to us all.

This year I welcome this season with mixed feelings, I have always had mixed feelings of Joy and sorrow for beginning and end at the same time. But this time more of sorrow and little less of joy as I think this would probably be my last summer in Bangalore. I would have to leave the trees, seasons, roads, flowers and my friends behind; Practically almost everything I am so familiar to have around since last 7 years. Yheah 7 years looks like a lifetime to me. But I will hold onto the hope. Hope to see them again sometime.

This tree (picture taken at one of my late evening walks in my apartment complex) is a tree which doesn't have any leaves but it still blooms with the blossoms of hope. Somewhere deep down it teaches us all that no matter what hold onto "Hope".

This blog is for everything and everyone I will miss when am gone. :)
Cheers!! :)

A Beautiful Day

I live in a place called Bangalore. Here if you feel hot and sticky for couple of days you can very well expect a nice little shower which renders the whole place greener and cooler, often accompanied with the pink breeze that blows by, full of wonderful fragrances from the flowers of nearby trees/plants. It would leave you overwhelmed by the beauty of nature.

This is the best season of the year, onset of summer (spring) one can see lot of pink and purple blooms. These trees are so beautiful and the weirdest thing is that these trees have very little green leaves and are rather full of beautiful flowers. Probably one of the Biology lessons where they said flowers also make food for the trees is applicable in this case.

The roads where these trees are lined look just awesome.

Today is one of those days, when it rains for a little while and renders everything Green and Cool.

I work with an IT company and we have a beautiful green campus. There are total 7 Offices in Bangalore this is the 7th one.

I noticed this campus when I came for interview and it immediately gave me a feeling that I want to work here. With God’s grace I got selected and was offered a Job here and was happy to join.

Initially when I joined I was not assigned to any project, I would leverage the time to drink in the beauty of campus but once I was put to work I don’t remember when last I really enjoyed the campus.

Today again when I am in-between projects I got the time to enjoy the campus from the rooftop cafeteria while having my late lunch. The weather outside is awesome and I just wished if only I had wings and I could fly. :)

From the place where I was sitting I could see vast green lawns and beyond that is a small stoned pathway where one can walk which is lined with beautiful Green trees with Pink, Yellow and red blossoms all around. Way away from traffic of the busy roads. It was a kind of solace straight from heaven. I wished I could just share it with all my loved ones just the way I was experiencing it at that moment, the first thought was take a picture but that’s when I realized that, what I was witnessing could not be captured within a camera (or may be my friend Falguni would do it better if she were here). Everybody has a gift to express, for I like to describe things in words and my friend likes to take pictures and some paint it and so on.

I must say it’s just not the beauty or greenery but it’s about how I felt, the peace within, the feeling was so good that I wanted to capture everything along with the scenery. My feelings, my thoughts my happiness the peace I felt at that moment and the 360 degree of the scenery which no camera that I know of can capture.
It also made me feel that I must learn the names of all the trees around me to describe the things better in words. Well that’s my next agenda on the list.

With growing technology where machines precisely understand what we want to do (think of zooming or moving files with a touch on an iPad or any touch Pad or touch phones for that matter) I wondered if we can achieve this too, where one doesn’t only capture the scenery but also captures emotions, feelings and thoughts that emanate by a mere look at that place/scenery.

One last thing that I want to say is, I think if we could drink the beauty around us every moment of every day it will make life so beautiful. I wish all the work places have such scenic beauty that would make going to work much more happening. Please take time to admire and enjoy the petty but incredibly beautiful things like trees, flowers and birds that are there around us all the time, which normally goes unnoticed due to work pressure/stress and other such tensions that we carry with us in our minds all the time. We forget that it's kind of a cycle. If you enjoy the beauty or things around, it can even be a smile of a person (need not be green plush scenery always), that would make you enjoy everything through the day and that will reduce pressure/stress and would help you further enjoy everything around. The cycle goes otherwise also if you forget the good around you; you will always be miserable and would never be able to enjoy things around you.

To all the readers of this blog. Happy Life.

PS: This is not the picture from my office but still reminds me of the blossoms I was talking about.

Enjoy :)