Hey ! So I missed the Monday. Sorry. And what a Monday it was! It was just the simple act of submitting an application for a new pipe gas connection. And I thought how hard can it be? But boy! Some education it turned out to be. First of all the office had shifted from Sec-24 to Sec-1. Then I had to wait for 20 mins to get a visitor's pass to get into the IGL office from the GAIL reception where the servers were down and the computer wasn't working. So inspite of all the technology new that Modi's been hollering about, nothing actually works when it comes down to it. All doors are electronically operated and you need an access card to get in. So what happens when servers are down? Simple I guess. You don't get in. Or you wait till the computer is up and working. Don't ask me what happens if the system crashes. Finally after getting the access card I was directed to the 1st floor then the 3rd and then the 2nd till finally a guard took pity on me and informed me that the office was in the other wing. When I finally managed to locate the office after another twenty minutes I was told politely that registrations for my sector had closed and I would have to wait till they reopened. Just one of those days!
In this muddle I missed the sight I had been waiting to see. The flower bloom on my cactus in my terrace. I had been waiting for it to bloom for days ever since the tiny bud had appeared. Then in my hurry yesterday I forgot about it. Today when I saw the drooping closed bud of the flower I knew I had missed a precious moment. Believe me the sight of that cactus flower in bloom is one of the most beautiful sights in the world. It has a botanical name I forget( failing memory- sign of advancing age). In our hurry to get somewhere, to accomplish we miss so many precious moments like these. Like that flower so many of our near and dear ones bloom unnoticed, so many of them have things to say we don't hear or see caught as we are in ourselves. The certificate your son shows you for a quiz competition, or a grade he might have got in school or just something your spouse might have to share about a bad day. We listen but we don't hear. We look but we don't see. Because frankly life sucks for most of us for most of the time! Louis Armstrong belting out "What a wonderful world..." seems to belong to another era altogether. No. It's not a wonderful world at all. It's pretty much murder, mayhem, rape and dirty politics. But sometimes, just sometimes when you see a flower in bloom, see that smile on your son's face, look up at the blue sky, watch the rain - then you think that maybe the world's not such a bad place after all. Precious moments like these compensate.
So it's me signing off! Till next time!
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