Its been almost 5 months since I moved to this room which is in the ground floor of this beautiful apartment. I have been enjoying the stay here for its beautiful surrounding, there is a children's park right beside my room. The apartment faces to a big lake that has a walking pavement for morning joggers. I spend my beginning hour of my day just breathing some fresh air walking around the lake listening to some sermons of Ravi Zacharias.
The room is located just below the balcony of the houses above. Families used to grow plants in pots at their balconies close to the grill that acts as a protection for children. Whenever they fill in water, little amount of water used to fall right in front of my door that would spoil the texture of the soil and I used to feel little dejected sometime. There are kids in those houses, they used to throw strange items like half eaten fruits, laddus, some floor mixed water. I used to consider myself lucky whenever I get out of my door feeling the escape from the drop not falling right on my head or on my neatly ironed shirt. I got a little irritated and angry, planned to go and shut every house door to all five floors. I kept deferring it due to insufficient time, and thinking that my warn sign shouldn't bother them. Whenever I decided to go in the morning, I thought I must not go and start their day negative, lets go in the evening. When I start to go in the evening, I would think, lets not go and disturn their family time after their whole day in office. And this kept going on and on and I never went and informed my concern just tolerating the mess caused.
Yesterday, when I stepped out of my room and kept walking to the parking. I suddenly turned back. To my surprise I could see a dozen of birds sitting and pecking all the food particles that were dropped on the mud. There was a joy exploded in my mind and felt very happy to see those birds eating right outside of my room. That's when I decided, I must not go and warn those people, throwing of their trash is being fed to these many birds and I have some visitors in my house. What more is happiness.
The room is located just below the balcony of the houses above. Families used to grow plants in pots at their balconies close to the grill that acts as a protection for children. Whenever they fill in water, little amount of water used to fall right in front of my door that would spoil the texture of the soil and I used to feel little dejected sometime. There are kids in those houses, they used to throw strange items like half eaten fruits, laddus, some floor mixed water. I used to consider myself lucky whenever I get out of my door feeling the escape from the drop not falling right on my head or on my neatly ironed shirt. I got a little irritated and angry, planned to go and shut every house door to all five floors. I kept deferring it due to insufficient time, and thinking that my warn sign shouldn't bother them. Whenever I decided to go in the morning, I thought I must not go and start their day negative, lets go in the evening. When I start to go in the evening, I would think, lets not go and disturn their family time after their whole day in office. And this kept going on and on and I never went and informed my concern just tolerating the mess caused.
Yesterday, when I stepped out of my room and kept walking to the parking. I suddenly turned back. To my surprise I could see a dozen of birds sitting and pecking all the food particles that were dropped on the mud. There was a joy exploded in my mind and felt very happy to see those birds eating right outside of my room. That's when I decided, I must not go and warn those people, throwing of their trash is being fed to these many birds and I have some visitors in my house. What more is happiness.
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