What birds teach us? Me, My Guru
“Siberian cranes travel such
long distances and for so long periods and yet – yet they are never late. They
reach the ‘places’ of their habitat on time. They don’t have bio-metric
punching machines, shouting bosses, nagging MIL’s, demanding spouse or strict
Guru to point out that they are ‘late’ – yet they are on time” she was talking about cranes but I felt
that was a jibe at me. Yes, I was late as usual. I really tried hard and yet I
don’t know why I end up being late – even today! I simply went and sat
silently, joining others. Suddenly I felt strong hatred for these cranes. Why
did they have to migrate and that too so religiously every year – same time?
Their nature was responsible for me to get mocked at today. I didn’t like them.
Nice that they had to do so much of work.... I was still cursing them mentally
as our Guru continued her explanation in physical world “We relate
freedom with
birds. And always say ‘wish I was a bird, want to be free like a bird’. But
have we ever looked at birds’ life closely. With its freedom comes greater
responsibility of being ‘self-reliant’. It has to work for food every single
day – be it rain or sunshine. It has no Sundays in its calendar and any
festival or casual holidays. No vacationing too for it. It has to work every
single day otherwise it and its family goes hungry and it can’t afford it as it
can’t go to doctor and get vitamin tablets later”.
We all laughed. That scene was
worth imagining. It was true. Since they didn’t have concept of ‘fridge’ or
‘bank’ they couldn’t save for the rainy day, so that later on a rainy day they
could sit relax and enjoy mirchi bajji (favourite hot snack in India) with tea
while listening to music. They never even know that such a luxury exists and
yet – and yet we envied them. They were workaholics out of compulsion and yet
never seemed sad or complained. They were fearless of tomorrow. We could come
up with so many of points when she continued “They live each day. They never
plan for tomorrow. They live for now and here. And that was the reason for the ‘energy’
of peace and freedom that they radiated.
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