This weekend (Friday and Saturday) I was at Kareli, a small town or rather village in the Narsinghpur district of M.P. The purpose was to attend a family wedding. My mother has her roots in Kareli (her mother’s family belongs there). I was not very keen to go but she insisted me to go to wedding anyhow. After coming back I realized that I spent a great couple of days and it was really good that I went there despite my reluctance.
Functions like these are the best way to meet your relatives and friends at a single place with whom you have not met for long or haven’t met at all. It is another way of socializing or rather connecting with people. And to be honest, villages are the best place to witness the so called “social network”, albeit it’s in a real world and not in the virtual! For me it was a great experience because I met so many new people who knew me by name but were meeting me for the very first time. In fact I never knew I had so many cousins! Also, I had a glimpse of the village life, which in a way is very serene and simple.
When you get so much of respect and love at a go, you are bound to get overwhelmed. And similar was my story. You can feel the happiness in the other person’s heart, there is nothing to fake. Everything is genuine and pure; feelings, smile, words and actions. In cities, where people hardly have time for others and meet with fake smiles, these things are not to be found.
The big thing I observed was that people are simple and helpful. Simple. Period. They wear simple clothes, eat simple and live simple. There is nothing complex in their lives. When you first see them, you might tend to think and talk about their dressing sense. But then they don’t care what you think or say. When you meet them, you will know that dressing etc. are fake things and not to worry upon. One must have a clean heart. They would be ready to help you in every possible way.
I then thought about the life we are living in cities. We don’t have time to meet people. In fact we hardly greet people. I don’t remember the last time, I said “Hello” to a stranger. The housing society where I live, I have not seen anybody talking to each other, except for occasional hi, hellos. The irony is that, in the last 1 ½ years, I myself haven’t talked to my neighbors.
I must say, I would not forget Life’s biggest lessons I have learnt in 2 days. Simplicity is indeed a great virtue. Your home could be small, but your heart should be BIG. Life is too short to keep Egos and Grudges.
Connect the dots, Connect with people.
God Bless!
Cheers! Adi
Functions like these are the best way to meet your relatives and friends at a single place with whom you have not met for long or haven’t met at all. It is another way of socializing or rather connecting with people. And to be honest, villages are the best place to witness the so called “social network”, albeit it’s in a real world and not in the virtual! For me it was a great experience because I met so many new people who knew me by name but were meeting me for the very first time. In fact I never knew I had so many cousins! Also, I had a glimpse of the village life, which in a way is very serene and simple.
When you get so much of respect and love at a go, you are bound to get overwhelmed. And similar was my story. You can feel the happiness in the other person’s heart, there is nothing to fake. Everything is genuine and pure; feelings, smile, words and actions. In cities, where people hardly have time for others and meet with fake smiles, these things are not to be found.
The big thing I observed was that people are simple and helpful. Simple. Period. They wear simple clothes, eat simple and live simple. There is nothing complex in their lives. When you first see them, you might tend to think and talk about their dressing sense. But then they don’t care what you think or say. When you meet them, you will know that dressing etc. are fake things and not to worry upon. One must have a clean heart. They would be ready to help you in every possible way.
I then thought about the life we are living in cities. We don’t have time to meet people. In fact we hardly greet people. I don’t remember the last time, I said “Hello” to a stranger. The housing society where I live, I have not seen anybody talking to each other, except for occasional hi, hellos. The irony is that, in the last 1 ½ years, I myself haven’t talked to my neighbors.
I must say, I would not forget Life’s biggest lessons I have learnt in 2 days. Simplicity is indeed a great virtue. Your home could be small, but your heart should be BIG. Life is too short to keep Egos and Grudges.
Connect the dots, Connect with people.
God Bless!
Cheers! Adi
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