Good to ask rather than pass!

The Green Peace Calendar Sheet May 2009

Picture of a child in an unregulated backyard e-waste recycling unit

Protective clothing, None
Footwear, None
Toxicity levels, Risky
Workshop dust, High
Twinkle in the eye, High
Enthusiasm to earn the day’s wages, High

And here I am complaining about how my air conditioner didn’t cool well enough.

It was a slap of reality! All of us need these now and then. Does the kid even know of a world that exists beyond the workshop? Doubtful…

Lack of education, meager food, shabby shelters, sexual exploitation, broken hearts, broken lives – the worst thing, we pretend that this world doesn’t exist!

A struggle for some, easy for many

A good family
A steady source of income
Consistent love
Security
Respect for relationships
Being yourself

A tough struggle for some, easy for many!

It is good to be

A co-rider on the elevator
Might just need a had with his bags
It is good to ask rather than pass

A crying child
Might just need a hand
To bring his kite down
It is good to ask rather than pass

The old neighbor
Would lighten up with a game of chess
Costs time, but worth it
It is good to ask rather than pass

At the end of a tiring day
All it requires is a little bit of patience
To lighten up another person’s day with your smile
It is good to BE rather than just ask

To accept someone for being ‘different’
To understand that another’s ‘to be’ might not always be acceptable to us
To be the least judgmental
To live and let be
All it requires is a bend of the mind

Amen!

I give up trying to understand myself !!!

I give up trying to understand why my heart so cries?

The expectation of time
The joy of being
Why does my heart yearn so?

The mind sieved between
Thoughts that dominate
And tasks mundane
Seeks solace
In you
But it knows boundaries
And yet mourns over the other side!

To seek, to be sought
To give, to be given
To lose…To hold
To cry…To laugh
To play…To become
Why is it that I am torn?

At every step, there is expectation
Of newer moments to come
I tell myself, expect nothing o mind!
And even before the minute passes
Caresses the thought, so Now!

Thoughts once emptied
Return to taunt
Is it right to cry and belittle the NOW
Or heart, take things as they come? I give up trying to understand!