Just Thinking

Do you believe that we are living in an uncertain time? I mean, Governments and Economies around the world are going for a toss now and then, terror attacks are shocking the world every day, wars are being predicted in near future, environment is changing drastically every single year, a life changing technology is being invented every day and more such things which use to happen once in a lifetime are now happening in blink of an eye. Are we the reason behind this uncertainty? To look at the micro level, what I feel is we have started valuing each passing second in a completely different way. The way we are trying to extract as much out of everything, the same rule is being applied to time. For example, companies in distant past might have been reporting their annual progress, then came the quarterly reports, then the weekly updates and then the daily status updates from teams. What next? Real time monitoring of growth? We are tweeting everything, posting every second, judging a

Yesterday, an old man of my grandfather’s age joined his hands and did namaskar to me. I did not know what to do, as he was one of the teachers who taught my father. He was bedridden due to his old age. He is 88 now. But he is not the old tree I am referring to in the title of this blog. The old tree is much bigger than a person. My father had some errands to run in our ancestral village Mangrul dastagir which is around 120 kms from Nagpur. It was long since I met my grandfather so, I joined him. After the long drive and the work was done, my father was keen on meeting some people in the village. People who he remembered from his childhood. His friends, teachers, family friends, etc. First we went to one of his friend’s house. The joy this friend had on his face when he saw my father was something else. It was like two brothers were meeting after a long time. My grandfather was along with us. The respect he got was astonishing. He was regarded no less than a father by this friend. S