Resolutions

I hope this blog goes further than the previous ones that lie abandoned at various junctions on the Internet highway!It being a part of the many New Year resolutions that I very rashly commit myself to, I am not too sure about its future, but then I intend to make this one last. Inshaallah.

As I sit here typing, I hear the voices of children, in the building next to mine, raised excitedly in some game of theirs. What is always wonderful to hear is the passion with which they pursue even the most mundane of games being played in such restricted spaces of high rise apartment buildings that now form the face of urban India. What is heartrending is the paucity of playing spaces for children in urban landscapes, in contemporary India.

I do a throwback to my childhood, when almost the entire day ,on holidays, used to be spent outdoors under trees,plants, flowers, shrubs,leaves, and the good earth seemed to be an organic extension  of my body.  One learnt unconsciously of the rhythms and cycles of Nature, and was in consonance with them, as only children can be. As the natural world around was seen as  a part of ourselves, reverence to the same came automatically, there was no need for any enforcement.
Respecting the environment, is respecting yourself.

Jesus said "Daughters of Jerusalem,weep not for me but for yourselves and your children."