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The whole perspective of your world changes if you change your
viewing vantage point. Isn’t that the reason why we fight for
that elusive window seat in the bus and the train? Remember the
time you fought through maddening crowds just to get a glimpse
of the idol at the temple during festival season?
I have traveled in that main road in Houston countless time.
So many times that I know which intersection comes after the
next and which store comes where. So many times that I even
counted how many pharmacies exist in that 8 mile stretch. I
enjoy watching things move by as I sit along the window and
enjoy the sights. I have driven on those roads every day of the
week, any time of the day. It is something so familiar.
And then this happens to change my whole perspective. I ended
up at an office with a seventh floor view of that main road. And
then the view of the road changed. The attitudes of the drivers,
the flashing lights and screeching sirens of cop cars and fire
engines, the trees being cut to make way for a new construction,
the deliveries at the neighborhood pharmacy, the cars in line at
the carwash, the fog covering the tall buildings, the dark rain
clouds just overhead! It is indeed a sight to see!
You feel invincible towering over the F150’s and the buses on
the road. The people on the street seem like ants and at times
of traffic chaos I feel like calling out instructions and acting
as a traffic cop. And it is now I understand why we have those
traffic police stands in the middle of the road in India. At
times the clouds seem so close-by that I get carried away easily
into dream land. It sure beats the ground floor office with the
window I had last year.
The world seems so much better and more dimensional when you
are seven floors high. And now I wish for an office by the
window in the tallest buildings around the world.
- V
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