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Nature and outdoors never stop amazing me.
There are so many things I learn from them and they make my
otherwise mundane existence a pleasure. I love the trees, the
flowers, the rivers, the birds, the rains, the humidity and even
the tiny creepy, crawly insects. Everyday nature seems to tell
me about the eternal mantra of life, change.
Slow and subtle are the changes in nature,
but they happen in front of our busy eyes. We just seem to
ignore the changes in trying to rush from one commitment to the
other making no time to stop and enjoy nature and to learn from
it.
In spite of my hectic weekends, I try to make
time for a little one-on-one with nature a couple of times a
month. My one-on-ones range from a couple of minutes of solitude
early in the morning watching the birds come to life to a simple
picnic by the lake. I try to make it a way of life.
And when Saturday turned to be an unusually
warm December day, I knew it was time to pull out the picnic
basket and head out to enjoy the day. Yes, there were many other
things I could have done instead of sitting by the creek,
basking in the sun, reading a novel and laughing away the
worries with my husband and brother. But then the pleasures of
taking the timeout to enjoy nature are indeed special.
Nature as always taught me about being
patient and accepting change in life. The trees were now void of
their leaves, a stark contrast from my previous trip in summer.
And telling me to be patient and wait for the fresh burst of
leaves in a few months. It is such a simple lesson of life that
I never get tired of it. Might becoz I forget the basic lesson
so easily in the pursuit of so-called bigger things?
Life’s lesson never changes, irrespective of
age, time and generation. Be patient and accept change in life
with grace. The lessons nature teaches me day in-and day out!
- V
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