A walk with myself…

Sometimes, you need to do something to clear your head. Some read, some sleep, some run or some just get a glass of whiskey. I decided to take a walk. Not that I have done it before, not that I’ll always do this, but I chose to walk.

My colony is a great place to walk. I’ve spent about 15 years in this neighbourhood and I have been happy for the most part of it. When I walk through any of the streets, I get visions of my friends who lived/live in those streets & the time we all had together. Whether it was climbing the mango trees or just breaking glass windows with our cricket ball, they are all visions imprinted in my memory.

But what my walk taught me was very simple – that life is transient & the one who is equipped to constantly change has the advantage. Survival of the fittest, in other words is that the person who can change, will live. So much has changed in this colony – people, houses, roads, plants, trees, vehicles & preferences of people.

Just off a busy highway, the colony continues to offer pin drop silence. Except the occasional alarm ringing or music on someone’s TV. You can hear the birds chirp, the squirrels running around & the stray dogs lazing in the foyer of houses. And you can walk peacefully.

And I just realised, that running, sleeping, boozing or walking doesn’t clear your mind – it’s just telling yourself that you need a change; change from sitting in front of the computer & staring at the screen for important documents to arrive & getting frustrated when they don’t. That change, is easily possible even while staring at the screen! But somehow, our control over mind is so weak that we try to control our body & tell ourselves that we really have a control over the mind!

Confusing huh?