Gonna Shine Some Day

I am sitting here in the cafeteria of the office,
Its cool here, and I have bottle of Cold Drink in my hand.
Life at peace ... !!!

Looking outside the window I see, the beautiful scene, lake, hills, trees and some tens of high buildings and shopping mall.
There is hot sun pondering heat outside, but we are comfortable in AC buildings.
Everybody seems happy from this place ..... !!

Below that construction is going on,
Women are moving bricks, cement and sand, Men breaking the stones.
I can see their bodies shining due to sweating
There must be some one sick or week enough to do that work.
Thought which comes to mind is,
Is this the society, is this the system.
I am feeling more healthy than them, stronger than them,
Instead of those women and those lean workers, this work should be given to me.
Place at which I am sitting, should be given to them.
I feel myself more fit for that job
Do I really NEED and DESERVE that, what society is giving me.

The supervisor or someone other comes and orders them to do it quickly.
For whom they are doing this much effort, not for themselves.
Some rich industrialist will come and buy that, He will employ some of them as security guards or peons there, again to scold them.
And we, sitting in the beautiful building with all the facilities, doing a little work whole day,
for whom?
for some industrialist who will make money out of it, again invest, employ some of us and again the cycle will repeat.

In the mall we visit often, there are several restaurants,

We prefer MacD burgers because they are comparative cheap.
How much?  53 Rs
Our cheapest choice of having a taste is the daily salary of someone, and this is cheapest.

Security guards and sweepers of mall work whole day to serve us
they serve whom, the people who will again put them in the same position of serving.
It is the hardwork of these people which allows this so called mall development, and what they are given back nothing, they are making something which will add to their misery.
Their hardwork is of no use, they cant even buy one burger for their kids.

Coming back to the hostel in an auto-rickshaw, often i see some old person going on bicycle, or some women with 2 kids walking, or some workers sweating after whole day's work walking because they do not have enough for getting some vehicle.
I am feeling good, done nothing whole day, I am fit and I am using this vehicle.
I am more fit for walking.
who NEEDS this more, me or them?
who DESERVES this more?

should I offer this auto-rickshaw ride to them, and start walking.
No, others sitting in this auto, will make fun of me, and will protest. so lets continue with what is going on.
But still the thought is how unfair is the distribution.

Dreams
the Everlasting dreams
dreams of joys
dreams of funs
dreams of toys
dreams of guns
dreams of dreams
the dreamiest dreams


you love in dreams
you fight in dreams
you dance in dreams
you fly in dreams
you live in dreams
you die in dreams
the everlasting dreams
dreamiest dreams


Is that you who dreams
or someone is dreaming you
or god cherishes his dreams
puppets are just me and you
I woke up in my dreams
my spirit still dreaming inside you
dreams my dreams
the everlasting dreams
the dreamiest dreams

It is strange that never knew  how  we were in our childhood or what we have done at that time

the age of innocence,
the age in which we had  our own little world,
with a belief that we could  do anything
with our strangest attempts and funniest deeds

I feel myself lucky that I still remember a lot of that time.

I was in K.G. or 1st class that time (I remember this because we shifted home, when I came to 2nd standard )
It was the month of April or May.

At that time my mom always put the fan on 3 or 4 (numbers on regulator)
And when I found it hot, I always used to ask mom to put in on number 5.
But mom (lost against my insisting) said "It will rain if you put the fan on 5"
And I used to give up after this argument.


One day I came from School (they leave kids at 11am)
The room was on first floor.

Then mom went to my neighbour's house for something.
I was feeling hot and I thought i should give  it a try, let us see if rain comes or not.

I came near the door and dragged the chair, when I was climbing on that, I saw outside.
There were washed cloths on clotheslines.
As that was summer season, they were almost dried now.

I thought if it  rained , then these cloths would  be wet again, wasting all the efforts of my mom to wash them.
I dragged the chair outside below the clothesline and removeed  the first cloth, then went inside and  put that on bed, came outside, dragged the chair, removed 2nd cloth, went inside, came back again, dragged chair ......
... and after some effort I removed all the clothes.

I dragged the chair back to the room, below the switchboard.
I climbed up, rotated the regulator and
and
and
To my utter surprise I saw darkness outside
yeah
sun was gone and clouds were there.

Now I was frightened, If mom came to know about this she would  scold me. !!

I rotated it back to 4, then dragged the chair outside, below the clothesline, went inside, brought one cloth,
put that on the line, (it was very tedious as i wanted it to look the same as earlier)
i went inside, brought another cloth, dragged chair further and put it on..
................
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after sometime, all clothes were on the line.
then I thought they are not in the same order,
I tried to put them in position,
and while doing so I realized ... sun had appeared again from quite sometime now.

Now I was relaxed.
I went inside, climbed on the bed and I was happy with number 4 now.


:)    :)    :)    :)
This incident has just  occured to me , I never told this to anybody, It was just in my faint memories.
Although now I am publicly sharing this ... before I forget this !!

If you ask anyone, which course you liked most in college life .. especially from students of IIIT Hyderabad, they all will look at you like you have asked which one you like most osama, saddam or Kasaab.
Few of them will say C programming, data structures etc which they learn in first year,  the age of innocence and sincerity.


But I'll say Dance, yeah the course under Humanities skill set courses label.
Taken by Sonal Nimbkar madam In first sem.


What she taught us was ‘what’ is dance, not 'how' to dance.
 
In the first class she just said everyone to walk with their eyes closed first normally
And then walk in a different manner, different style.
 I usually try to walk with eyes closed many a times so this was not a problem, I tried but after 7-8 steps, i felt like i was walking like a blind man.
She asked "Aman, you are not taking it seriously", I said no mam "I am serious."
Then i explained that i do this many a times so it was like this.

In next class she made us play dumb-charades on animal names instead of movie names. We had to act like them and producing their sound was allowed.
I got "bat" to act upon. I tried by doing acting and showing black colour, it was easy so everyone guessed.
But when i came back, Akshay mani told me that you could do this by showing cricket bat.
Oh ya!! i though, I was lost in that game, that i forgot about winning it that way.

In next class she gave a stick, ask all of us to sit in a circle, everyone has to come in the middle and do something different with that:
someone used that like cricket bat, someone used it like pen, badminton racket, hammer, flute, straw, screw-driver, meter rod, key board, broom, water bottle and many other different things.
We just came to know that there is enormous creativity inside everyone. 

In next class same thing was done using a piece of cloth.

In one class she asked what you saw in dream last night, just tell us all, without using your tongue.
Everyone was showing something, the scene was divine.
It was so beautiful that i could see what the person in front of me dreamed last night, and surprisingly everyone was doing this very enthusiastically and skillfully.

 After every class students asked mam when will you teach us dance, she always replied this was dance.

Best thing was that I didn't know there will be grading in the course.
Until 14th of January, when the results were declared.


I got A grade :)

NOW
the learning part


I enjoyed the course no doubt but why i was able to enjoy the course, I got the answer in 3rd year, when i took "Education and Self" course.

Whatever we did she said this is dance. We all were happy, because that dance was ours, it came from with in.

We came to know about meaning of dance through that course
Had she taught us the history of dance or bio-psychology or the well defined steps of dance, she wound be teaching us the ‘why’ and ‘how’ part, which we may not have enjoyed that much.Knowing the ‘what’ part itself gives a delight to study it further.

Everybody though it is just a pass or fail course. While some of them enjoyed the course, others didn’t even show interest in it. But the thing was that every class we attended was full of fun, because there was no worry of grades, and cramming up things before the class. Every class we attended with a fresh mind full of creative ideas. This just shows how the modern education system has put this component out of the the learning. It was totally unbiased learning. :)