Which festival do you enjoy ? Does it feed your soul? Let me know your views.
Holi while it has its own religious history, the day starts with greeting people with colour, sprinkling blush , adding water to the colours with gay abandon and swishing it around at anybody and everybody.
Rang Barse time sets in.
Gujiya’s also abound. Some make it truly delicious
The mood is of joy and calm rush sprinkled with religious tones.
The colour and food festivity continues till the afternoon and melts into some delicious food.
People get together nourish , tipple and lush .
Bliss. Cumulus clouds.
A few people come out in their linen whites. florals and enjoy the air of festivity . They live it up.
The afternoon dozes into a a relaxing afternoon siesta.
That now is festival I love.
Holi.
While the Hindu faith has many festivals and I celebrate many a few with joy and passion, it is the festival of colours that I really relish and look forward to .
Heart wrenching story of a build of 10 years. You absorb your self in their warmth , hospitality and their cheerful faces. And these ladies are as professional as it gets . Too the Tee.
One an artist , as in a designer of homes and the other a a more keen cancer aware and a survivor who runs this place to a polish
Long trails and walks keep you happy . Truly a place to rejoice and celebrate being alone, yes not lonely but alone.
As my wife and I waded through this amazing crest , we were absorbed deeply , so deeply in the rustle of leaves , whistling winds and chirping we forgot our awareness. I was lost in the wilderness of a rush of calm .
A very engrossing and interesting lawyer met us there. Lover of dogs we bonded on many topics.
We stayed a few days but in the minds we yearned for a living like this. Does not come easy does it ? We pondered.
We left Kasauli with heavy heart albeit ful of joy and contentment.
Memories of the place abound in our minds especially of the super hosts. They were examples of sheer grit , joy and living with an authentic reason .
I will deny , today after nearly six months I do get a rush. A rush of the hills, nature and of course the lovely women of Maya’s crest .
– Canoeing , cruising , paddling, surfing or sculling , afloat, adrift , swamped . Where are we?
Fifties does set in nicely with many , with ones wisdom tooth having been taken away , concerns around baldness have simmered down, hormones understood a bit better and at work most are established with a steady flow of income.
What you then begin to strive for is a still mind, religion, nature, friends or what most individuals spend a lot of yearning, striving and earning for – the very elusive ..,a need or want , you can conjecture.
Others opt for education, charity , building society , diversity
Yet a few venture into politics with an intent so clear to serve the country. An intent that quickly recoils into an illusion for some and channel to serve for others
The elusive need of adequate money however haunts the most. Linked to it, in the corporate life the desire to hold one’s job in a very uncertain economic environment is of prime , prime concern.
The financials needs have risen rapidly as people focus to educate their children
The single most important area that parents spend time on.
Marrying children,build or buy homes where they intend to settte and put a stop to all new borrowing are other thoughts in the mind .
The desire and hunger to educate children runs high in the family. The upper medium society , look at children going abroad , mostly preferring the US. Eventually wealth of parents defines their destination as they head to a host of countries.
The most astonishing change happening now is the lower middle class earning more and thinking more profoundly on education of their children
Love for nature, travel and health flourishes and yet a significant number of people get into anxiety and depression. A loosely used term but a clinical disease where the patient needs extreme support and a very strong caregiver .
Alas I am probably talking of top percentage of the population .
Must admit the need for research for all the strata of society
I can however admit fifties is like no other in corporate life.The swings in jobs are extreme . Those who have confidence but little clarity in detail will skid . After all someone has said .. confidence without clarity is disaster.
How do your fifties go by ?
For those yet to reach this momentous milestone I am very curious to learn of your plans ?
Crystallising Intelligence 