HOME, SWEET HOME!!

SO LONG AS ONE, ESPECIALLY IF HE LIVES IN A CITY LIKE BANGALORE (NOTABLY, OF LATE DECLARED “A CLASS ONE CITY”), REMAINS WITHIN THE FOUR WALLS OF HIS HOME - PROVIDED, OF COURSE, HE CAN AFFORD TO DO SO, BUT NOT COMPELLED TO DO OTHERWISE- HE COULD LIVE IN PEACE, BOTH OF MIND AND BODY; ALSO BE AT PEACE WITH SELF.

ONCE HE GETS OUT OF HIS HOME AND STEPS ON A PUBLIC ROAD, HE SELDOM COULD BE ASSURED OF ANYTHING, INCLUDING HIS OWN GOD-GIVEN LONGIVITY.

WITH THE EVER INCREASING INDISCIPLINE AND GROSS DISRESPECT FOR THE RULES OF THE ROAD ON THE PART OF ITS USERS, PARTICULARLY THOSE RIDING OR DRIVING A VEHICLE (BE IT A SO CALLED 2 OR 3 OR 4 WHEELER), THEY TAKE CONTROL OVER YOUR DESTINY; THEREBY RELIEVING THE CREATOR HIMSELF FROM HIS SELF-IMPOSED RESPONSIBILITY FOR SUCH CONTROL.

MAY BE, SO IS THE LAMENTATION ONE OFTEN HEARS FROM THOSE ESPECIALLY IN THEIR ADVANCED AGE.

THE YOUTHS OF TODAY, EVEN IF HE IS OF MIDDLE AGE, HAVE NO TIME TO SPARE OR CARE, MUCH LESS TO REFLECT ON SUCH THINGS.

THE MORAL OF THE STORY IS, - OLDIES HAVE NO BUSINESS TO VENTURE OUT OF THEIR ABODE.

WAYS OF LIFE

WHILE ON A MORNING WALK, AN OLD MAN WHO BELIEVED IN, RATHER WAS PROUD OF, HIS OWN WORLDLY WISDOM, BEING DEPRESSED BY WHAT WAS HAPPENING ALL AROUND, FACING A PASSERBY, A SEEMINGFLY BUSY BODY, LAMENTED: THERE IS NO SALVATION AT ALL FOR OUR COUNTRY!

TO BE ONLY CONFRONTED WITH A REPARTEE: WHY NOT! YOU SIMPLY NEED TO QUIT THE COUNTRY!

(PROVIDED, OF COURSE, ONE CAN SUGGEST A BETTER PLACE ANY WHERE AROUND THE GLOBE! ; EXCEPT THE ARCTIC, OR THE SNOWCAPPED PEAKS OF THE ALPS OR HIMALAYAS) –

INTENTIONALLY YOURS, IN THE SMALLEST FONT