For me, it’s about what more can I do for people around me…..
My daughters who are growing up so fast that at times they make me feel I am extinct. Imagine an 8 yr asking u for an I POD, not a stereo player, not a TV….While we got our first TV when I was in class 10. Till then it was the air force mess, black & white TV and the evergreen Chitrahaar. While the IPOD will come I am sure….swimming on Saturday, movies on Sunday, a trek or a circus……and above all the 5 minutes I spend talking to them daily in the breakfast table, in the school bus stand and before they goes to sleep is how I try to be more to them
My lovely wife, for whom a chance dinner outside on a Sunday or a “No Entry” in kitchen on a Saturday & Sunday, is almost like a dinner in Taj, or a 2 day trip to Goa. These moments snatched from the daily grind of working couple life is how I try to be more.
My ageing parents, whom I also visit when I visit the South Ex store in Delhi, helps them go back to those days when I used to come back home once a year from my Engineering College. When before I rang the bell and touched their feet I could actually smell the fish fry …… When I visit them I am that lost growing up kid once again and those few hours spent before I board the flight means a lot more to them than any other luxury / gifts which I give them.
For people around, guiding a blind foreigner to a toilet in the BIAL airport, helping an old couple to a taxi when they can’t find one in Delhi airport at midnight or holding a kid’s hand in a mall where she is lost….I feel and experience life beyond my family and work.
As far as I am concerned, reading my Murakami, seeing a late night movie, adding to my blog or few pages to my long awaited novel defines ME and I.
Be More is a reason for all of us to live life beyond the routine existence and celebrate every moment we live.
As we move from a radio to a walkman to an ipod ....the moments are passing by…as John Lennon says….”Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”
