Time To Stand Or Stare
What is this life if full of care, we have no time to stand or stare?
- W.H.Davies
There’s no point in having a window with a view if you never look out of it.
- IdeaSmith
Yesterday was such a beautiful day – not rainy, not sunny…just perfect! It didn’t even matter that it was a working day and I was at office in the middle of a busy schedule. I took my work up to the terrace with a cup of lemon tea and spent an hour quietly immersed in numbers and charts, occasionally indulging in the sneaky joy of being distraced by the birds on the banyan tree next door.
What bliss, what luxury! In the midst of a maddening city beset by horrible weather, I found myself experiencing something rare, virtually unfamiliar – contentment. I wasn’t thinking that I’d rather be out shopping or watching a movie or swimming or curled up in bed with a book. Everything was as it was; perfect.
I worked late into the evening leaving just a breath before 10 and it took me close to an hour to get home, stuck in traffic jams and bad roads on the way. But it was a perfect day.
And today it rained. *Sigh*
At least I was given yesterday and I took it.
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1Adithya
wrote on 19 September 2008 at 20:53
Someone’s loving life. Good! I need some of those days here where I live.
Adithyas last blog post..Uncertainty Principle
2vrs
wrote on 20 September 2008 at 7:45
It is really amazing that some one in this world is loving the nature irrespective of busy city life.
3manuscrypts
wrote on 21 September 2008 at 9:42
hmm, figuring out if it applies to Windows too?
manuscryptss last blog post..Tamarind
4A Cynic in Wonderland
wrote on 22 September 2008 at 4:10
very nice. dont you wish you could just bottle these days to take them out once in a while?
A Cynic in Wonderlands last blog post..Limerick Dementia
5Jeeves
wrote on 22 September 2008 at 4:23
Green and peaceful Mumbai. Indeed a picture and moment to cherish
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6teens to toons
wrote on 22 September 2008 at 11:20
hey .. long time no see…
no read also..
but it makes a ot more sense to see some smoke at the end of your nostrils..
looks like you have had time for blogging
I don’t know if i can keep going.. I am so far behind but now i keep a small diary and just shorthand my ideas so that one day when i get down to writing them.. atleast i will know 10 of those 100′s i missed…
you anywayz look good… chao
teens to toonss last blog post..teen sher
7Ms Taggart
wrote on 22 September 2008 at 11:22
I agree with the quote by IdeaSmith..
Ms Taggarts last blog post..Lousy Monday!
8sri
wrote on 22 September 2008 at 23:44
the day i came to this place i stared at the tree from the window and asked when r u going to have leaves. after long time again i look at the yellow, reddis-orange about to fall leaves…”no time to stand and stare”.
9IdeaSmith
wrote on 24 September 2008 at 6:45
@ Adithya, vrs: I think most of us do but we just get so caught up in the day-to-day run that we forget to appreciate what we have.
@ manuscrypts: Time to hang or DIV!error…
@ Cynic in Wonderland: What an idea, sirjee!!!
@ Jeeves, Ms.Taggart, sri:
@ teens to toons: Right, a diary might help you hold on to your own ideas so you don’t need to plagiarize other people’s posts. And in case you’re still wondering, yes, this is exactly what I meant.
10chhavi
wrote on 29 September 2008 at 14:33
I found myself quoting that poem “Leisure” so often my last year in Boston…
That’s a gorgeous tree you have outside your window. I mostly have a jungle of concrete 