Sunday, May 31, 2009

Pineapple - Yellow-Green (Colours of Joy!)

Again...it was a sight I saw on way to work .... a small private carrier on road..that runs on three tyres...has a tiny driver cabin and a open tin square carrier behind the driver's cabin. This is called the mini-auto-carrier in my land. All sorts of goods, at times people (in certain states) are carried from place to place for short distances.

This time it was a load of pineapples. Ripe pineapples. They were stacked randomly .... and were secured with the short iron railing on the top edge of the square carrier box ... but were loosely put into the carrier. This made the pineapples jostle against each other ... their green crown wobbling like heads in agreement who are in a heated discussion about world hunger! These are the ones in the top ... the ones underneath them looked muted and compressed like the opinions of a liberal speaker... that of a cynic. The ones under them are like any software development engineer... stay put where you been asked to and listen to all the big talk happening at the top!

But the wobbling green heads of the pineapples also brought back memories of two hair clips I had when in Class 2. They were not pineapples but yellow guitar which were pineapple yellow in colour. They were seen around till early this year but guess with my umpteen setting and resetting of my home space, they would either be somewhere in a recycling plant for plastics or if am lucky enough in one of the cardboard containers ready to be shipped to our own home in next two months.

Pineapple yellow....ripe pineapple yellow is a very joy-colour. And if it matched with the perfect green like the fruit has....makes it a carefree-combination :-) Happy colours!

I forgot my challenges...as I saw them speak..or did they 'speak'?

It was a very normal morning at a busy junction.....traffic coming fro m four regular directions, a haggard traffic police sweating in his tight-fitting police uniform, his two arms flying in all possible angles to drive some sense into the unruly traffic. My bus, in which I travel to office everyday with my colleagues, too was in middle of this jam. I sat in it, looked out of the window with a practised detachment to the chaos. Nothing unusual. The shops, the people at the bus stand...the school college buses...and my dry, boring thoughts of the challenges Nature/destiny/others have thrown into my life. My Happiness tells me I have this unique skill of killing my joy by conjuring up possibilities of tragedy in my life. I was almost on the verge of scripting a new tragedy, when my eyes caught something unusual....I saw three gentlemen communicating to each other. Two of them were nodding in affirmation...as the third gentleman....used sign language to communicate to the other two gentlemen. I thanked the traffic jam .....

All of them were talking in sign language ... not sure who had a challenge to speak....but as I leaned forward towards the window and watched them 'talk', one of the gentlemen caught my gaze. He gave a faint smile and got back into the discussion. They looked serious. I was not sure if the discussion was heated or not. They smiled and the next moment knitted eyebrows, nodding in affirmation and all the while using gestures, sign language! They were cut off from the din around, they were cut off from the melodies of sound, they were not gifted to hear music, they could not express verbally .... YET they were taking CARE to communicate. They managed to overcome their challenge and were grown-ups, managing their lives!

And here I am....gifted to hear....gifted to talk....gifted to express my feelings....yet...yet mulling over my so-called unfairness thrown at me by destiny/nature/others around me. I fail to SAY no, when I was supposed to...I do not care to SAY 'I like you' to my dear friends...I forget to SAY 'Take care' to my parents when I leave home....I do not care to SAY 'Life is beautiful' as sun rises everyday....I only SAY 'This is unfair'...which is not what I should be SAYING, with all gifts from Nature!

I thank the traffic jam, as we inch forward....and give one last look to the three-GIFTED and BLESSED gentlemen, wishing them a good day and a great life ahead....and a big THANK YOU! :)