What a day...
Today is one of those days which refuse to budge. I mean you almost imagine pushing it off a cliff and it just not moving even a milimetre.
It rained this morning and has been raining all day. I went down for lunch from my office and it was drizzling. Bombay looks a different city today. I look out of my 13th floor office and I see the city in a different light, literally. Those shades really spoke the character of the city. Grey, black, blue, the sun peering out of the clouds to all the hint of yellow. It was beaituful. The cranes of the docks, the victorian buildings, Rajabhai tower, VT station, the sea beyond, elephanta island.
It was a welcome break from the sweltering Bombay summer. The thunder and lightning isn't something you will hear every day in mid-March.
Also a thought crossed my mind that how badly have we screwed our environment that its raining like mid july in mid march. Just a thought. Most of don't even spare a thought for something so inconsequential as the environment. Or so I believe. Or am I generalising again. I am scared of generalising more than anything in this world after spending three years in a class with 60 ppl (40 most of the time!!!) who held fast to their opinion like leech to your legs (ok that wasnt a simile you will hear everyday). Speaking on anyone's behalf was a crime unpardonable.
Forgive me for digressing.
But for the love of life that we all are bestowed upon by the almighty, please take care of the planet that we are born on. That the only place you and I will ever have becuase atleast I am not looking forward to mars as an alternative accomodation. I don't want to go where the male kind originally belonged. We can just do small things to do our bit. Get your vehicle PUC done, stop using CFC products, don;t litter (its doesnt matter if everyone else does it, you can stop doing it). We don't need to join the armed forces to serve humanity. Somone's got to run the world. But even if each one of us does our basic civic duties, this world would certainly be a much better place to live in.
Think about it.
The situation in the movie "Day after tomorrow" may not be so far away after all.
It might be today.
(No apologies to shiv sena for using erstwhile names of places in Bombay)
It rained this morning and has been raining all day. I went down for lunch from my office and it was drizzling. Bombay looks a different city today. I look out of my 13th floor office and I see the city in a different light, literally. Those shades really spoke the character of the city. Grey, black, blue, the sun peering out of the clouds to all the hint of yellow. It was beaituful. The cranes of the docks, the victorian buildings, Rajabhai tower, VT station, the sea beyond, elephanta island.
It was a welcome break from the sweltering Bombay summer. The thunder and lightning isn't something you will hear every day in mid-March.
Also a thought crossed my mind that how badly have we screwed our environment that its raining like mid july in mid march. Just a thought. Most of don't even spare a thought for something so inconsequential as the environment. Or so I believe. Or am I generalising again. I am scared of generalising more than anything in this world after spending three years in a class with 60 ppl (40 most of the time!!!) who held fast to their opinion like leech to your legs (ok that wasnt a simile you will hear everyday). Speaking on anyone's behalf was a crime unpardonable.
Forgive me for digressing.
But for the love of life that we all are bestowed upon by the almighty, please take care of the planet that we are born on. That the only place you and I will ever have becuase atleast I am not looking forward to mars as an alternative accomodation. I don't want to go where the male kind originally belonged. We can just do small things to do our bit. Get your vehicle PUC done, stop using CFC products, don;t litter (its doesnt matter if everyone else does it, you can stop doing it). We don't need to join the armed forces to serve humanity. Somone's got to run the world. But even if each one of us does our basic civic duties, this world would certainly be a much better place to live in.
Think about it.
The situation in the movie "Day after tomorrow" may not be so far away after all.
It might be today.
(No apologies to shiv sena for using erstwhile names of places in Bombay)
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