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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

The Birds and the Ferrari



Another wretched traffic jam….

As I cursed the grinding traffic jam, I knew I’d be late for the office meeting again. I honked relentlessly along with the irritated others. I screamed angrily at a biker who raced in the little space beside my car almost scratching it. I annoyingly yelled out who taught these morons how to drive.

I realized how crappy the morning has turned out to be with people like these….

I impatiently looked at the many vendors on the side walk trying to sell their many overpriced wares to the stalled cars – fake glasses, newspapers, magazines, fruits, birds,.. the birds looked beautiful. Ironically, their beauty is their curse – they have been caged because they are beautiful and sold off to random strangers who’d keep them to show off to their friends.

A bright yellow Ferrari was in front of me: it’s pretty rare to see a Ferrari in Bangalore; but with a color like that, it’s hard to forget - wonder how I missed it earlier. Now here’s a guy who does not have to cook up a story to his boss as to why he is late for the weekly meeting. But I wondered if he even had a boss. Or maybe , he is the boss…. Some guys truly have all the luck!

From inside my car, I saw the front window of the Ferrari go down in fine automatic precision and a well bejeweled male hand came out of the front window of the car. The hand wore many gold rings dotted by red, green and blue rubies. The hand held a 1000 rupee note between two fingers and extended it to the birdman. The birdman smiled a toothy smile and I could see the greedy man asking for more. The bejeweled hand extended another 1000 rupee note. The bird man put all his ware in a big birdcage and exchanged it to the gullible hand and pocketed the currency notes.

The well bejeweled hand came out of the window again and this time held the big birdcage. The other hand came out and opened the cage. The next thing I saw was the trapped beautiful birds flying out of the cage far, far away into their happy freedom….

As I watched this magnificent gesture, my heart sank deeper into my chest and my face broke into a smile.

I realized how beautiful the morning has turned out to be with people like these….

What a wonderful world!







My friend Sandeep told me this story and I was mesmerized by it – I like it as it strips the pretentiousness that has colored our world today. I realized how a simple gesture can take us back to our roots; to the things that we all learnt while growing up but forgot along the way, to lessons taught to us that life is actually quite simple yet we try hard to complicate it and many a times, we succeed... sometimes, its these simple gestures that bring us closer to the real things that nature would have wanted us to have – to the real things that matter in life.. maybe like happiness, freedom, innocence…..

This is an entry for the Kissan "Get Real" contest.

Do Follow my blog, Like it and Vote for me...

J


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39 comments:

  1. what a wonderful world!
    good luck for the contest.

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    1. Hey Leo Paw, glad to have u on my blog.. Hope all is well with u buddy :)

      Thnaks for ur wishes man.. do drop by more often bro :)

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  2. Well done to the ferrari man, I am impressed at what he did .. ahh would have made me smile toooo a lot .. setting them freee ..


    Good luck for the contest ...

    Bikram's

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    1. Hey Bikram, wassaaaabbb buddy!! :)

      Thnx fr droppin by man.. glad u liked it.. same here.. when Sandeep told me this story, I literally smiled fr quite a while thinkin of it.. loved this story.. thought is was quite heart warming, no? :)

      Thnx fr ur wishes Bikram.. glad u dropped by :)

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  3. Amazing Story Raj!! As I was cribbing about working one extra February day for the same 'take-home' :P, I read this.. Made my day buddy :)

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    1. Aliyaaaannnzzzz... :)

      Long time, bro!! Hope all is well on ur side man.. enthokke undu?? :)

      Thnx fr ur kind words man.. glad u liked it.. ya man.. an extra day fr no extra pay .. should hv been a holiday :)

      Thnx fr droppin by macha.. do drop by more often :)

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  4. great story there and good luck !
    what birds were those by the way ?
    :p

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    1. Hey Jaya, hozzz uuu??? :)

      Thnx fr ur kind words Jaya n glad tht u liked it :)

      I think it was some colorful ones tht r predominantly green.. parrots, maybe?? :)

      do drop by more often, glad to see u here :)

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    2. those fetch more here methinks :p

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    3. Hahaha.. Parrots to Malaysia for Jaya soon then:)

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  5. awwwwest gesture that.. :):)
    i had a tears crinkling outta joy in my tears..
    the world should be filled with more people like ze ferrari guy..:):):)
    and wait...ferrari..*droooooools* tehehe
    aaaan..all ze best for ze contest macha..
    cheers!!

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    1. Hey Meoww, welcom back dear :)

      Wow, thanks so much fr ur kind words Meoww.. oh yes, me actually loved this particular ferari pic n opted fr it rather thn the usual red one.. glad u like it too.. :)

      Thnx fr ur wishes n kind words, meoww...:)

      do drop by more often :)

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    1. hello, vision in white... :)

      happy to see u :)

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  7. Now that he set all the birds free, would your bejeweled ferrari guy do the same with chicks too?

    Contest? Kya bhai? Tu kissaan ho gaya kya?
    Jai Jawaan, Jai Kisaan? Ladki jawaan, tho padosi pareshaan..

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    1. HAHAHAHA!!!! :D

      actually, come to think of it - I do like cultivation.. :D

      Bro!!!! Awesummm one dude.. awesumm.. am sooo flickin this one :D

      Yap, yap, contestin contestin... simbly simbly :)

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  8. Beautiful...had a great time reading it. Best of Luck for contest

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    1. Hey MoneyAware, long time, eh? Hope all is well with u :)

      Thanks fr droppin by n fr ur kind words.. best of luck to u too.. loved ur take on Aesop's fables.. all the best to u too :)

      Do drop by more often, MoneyAware :)

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  9. wow...I can just say wow...things like these make your day and so effect your perspectives and attitude:-)

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    1. Hey Suruchi, so nice to see here again :)

      Thanks for ur kind, kind words dear.. I so agree, its sometimes the lil things in life that make a huge difference to one's life.. a child's innocent smile can similarly do wonders to one's day :)

      Thnx fr droppin by Suruchi.. always a pleasure having u on board :)

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  10. Nice experience. Really appreciate the gesture but in case of canaries and foreign birds the very act might turn out to be a cruelty as the birds might not be adapted to live on their own or in Indian conditions and might die in the wild.

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    1. Hey der Friend :)

      I agree with u on that - I hv heard of fragile pets like the ones u hv mentioned - though I guess they weren't of the same - they just took to the sky like they belonged there.. but very nice point that u brought out here :)

      Do drop by more often buddy :)

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  11. Ha ha... so, what is it that makes you feel like taking part in contests - A sense of competition? A sense of productivity or the fun of seeing how good you are? Just curious. Been long since I had the motivation to try things.

    Hoping more contests come your way so that more well-written posts can come ours.

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    1. Aaah, Sinduja.. of late, u've developed this habit of droppin by n making me happy whenever I read ur very kind comments .. really hope to get used to more of 'em :)

      well, honestly, think its the platform, the opportunity to compete n yes, world peace....:D .. but jokes apart, me thinks its when an idea hits me tht me get in the game - me never cud think of anythin for a few earlier contests n hence didn't compete...:)

      think u shud compete too Sinduja - loved ur posts - u're very, very articulate n u hv tht coveted ability to say a lot with less .. cud learn a lot frm u :)

      do drop by more often Sinduja.. lovely to hv u aboard. :)

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  12. This was too kid.Finally the birds were freed.Awesome. Good luck for the contest buddy

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    1. Hey Solitary Writer, welcome to my blog!!

      Thanks fr droppin by n fr takin the time to comment :) Glad tht u feel tht way, my friend :)

      Thanks fr ur wishes n hope 2 see u more often buddy :)

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  13. Some people do deserve all the luck, because they are good at heart.
    It was such an enchanting gesture by him!

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  14. Why is my comment not published??!!

    I repeat,
    Some people deserve all the luck because they are good at heart.
    Wasnt this such an enchanting gesture by him.

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    1. Hey Red!!! Wassabbb!!! Nice to see u back dear.. been missing u :)

      Aah, guess blogspot been actin weird.. but voila, here they r :)

      Yup, totally agree wid u Red - like they say, what goes around, comes around :)

      do drop by more often, Red.. happy to see u :)

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    1. Hey Ashwini, Welcome to my blog!!

      nice to knw u feel that way.. thanks a lot :)

      Do drop by more often, Ashwini :)

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  16. good one...and rightly said...life is simple yet we try hard to complicate it...!

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    1. Hey Hari, welcome to my blog, my friend :)

      Glad tht u think tht way.. rightly said - life in its essence is simple - me thinks its us who make it complicated .. glad u agree :)

      do drop by more often Hari.. :)

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  17. I know I am VERY late but couldn't help not commenting! This was so sweet. I remember when I was 3, I had a pet parrot which I set free!

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    1. Wow CD! That's really beautiful.. guess u started a lil earlier than all of us here, didn't u? Nice... :)

      Don't worry bout the late thingie at all... just glad that u came :)

      Do drop by more often..n loved ur randomness in ur last post :)

      Congrats on ur award, CD!!

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  18. nice one.....apart from all the things i learnt.. i need to spot that Ferrari in b'lore...

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    1. Hey Buzzzzzzzzz..., welcum to ma blog, yaar... :)

      Thnx a lot fr ur kind words Bz.. hahahaha.. do keep lookin.. n if u see him, do let him knw I've written bout him :)

      thnx fr droppin by Buzzzzzzzzz...glad to hv u around.. do drop by more often :)

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  19. Tagged you R-a-J have a look..


    http://mannbikram.wordpress.com/2012/03/14/tag-the-eleven-questions-became-33-for-me/

    Bikram's

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    1. Hey Bikram, thnx a lot fr the honor man.. am on cloud9 :)

      Thnx very much man for considering me man. :)

      Takin a bow....

      :)

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