Its October…!

A week had passed since commence of the tenth month of the year, October. Normally known for a bunch of holidays and festivals, it brings in lots of celebrations, enjoyments, gatherings, and also slowly but noticeably it brings in a hint of winter while the frequency of rains decrease. As the rains slowdown leaving their footprints as potholes and clear skies and with sudden surprised downpour during evenings, the temperature drops down accompanied with regular cool breezes and chilly nights. Even few mornings seem chilly if we wake up early and dare to get out of the cozy blanket and step out of the bed. A perfect post-monsoon month!

It feels the right time for a cup of hot tea, be it morning or evening! And how heavenly it feels by that relief from the continuous downpour that got us stuck inside the house, for months, to get some fresh air with a cup of hot tea, accompanied with lots of spicy pakoras, in that weather which is neither too hot and perspiring as the summers nor harshly chilled like the months of December and January!

It was during those days in that second week of the month when he got up from his bed a bit early only to find out that it was another holiday and he could have got himself some more sleep. But once out of his bed, he rather decided to start his day and plan something. Quickly getting himself through a rigorous activity of getting fresh, he prepared a cup of hot tea for himself and walked to the window beside his bed. The cool breeze filled up the whole room freshening it within seconds as he opened the window pane. He felt fresh as he smelled the fresh air from the window and took a sip of the tea. With his first glance at the sky he smiled when it showed no signs of rain. It seemed as though the black monsoon clouds had gone for a stroll to the neighboring city. It was sunny but the effect of Sun had been minimized by the few silver clouds spread randomly across the sky.

The second sip of the tea widened his smile while he seemed to get lost in some unknown world as he closed his eyes for a moment. The cool breeze kept blowing on his face while the hot steam filled his nostrils with the aroma of tea. He felt proud for he could prepare such good tea.

Slowly he pulled a chair and seated himself beside the window, but he felt that odd as he had never done it in all the four long years that he had been staying in that house. All those years he had either spent those lovely mornings lying lazily in his bed scrolling the Facebook page in his mobile or hurrying through his daily activities only to make sure that he reached office before his manager. With that thought he suddenly remembered that he hadn’t checked his mobile since he had opened his eyes. It lay silent in its position near his pillow. He fought the urge to get up and get it; instead he glued himself on the chair and slid down a bit making himself comfortable. With another look at the sky, he took another sip.

As he took in more sips, the hot tea did its magic awakening his brains and his body from within. He was amazed because not only he felt much fresh and active early in the morning, but he was enjoying a cup of tea like he had never enjoyed it in those years. He had either rushed to gulp it down through his throat because he had to be at work or he had to return back home. Few times the tea would have turned cold as it sat idly waiting at his desk while he dug himself in some task and forgot the tea which was right in front of his eyes, only to realize later and gulp it down without even getting to taste it. The cold tea had never worked as magically as the hot tea was working now on his mind. He felt foolish as he remembered an incident where he had actually started enjoying the tea but later had given in to a TV program and lost the enjoyment of a real tea magic. But now he kept looking at the blue sky patched randomly with the curiously shaped silver clouds that looked like his childhood blue colored blanket stitched with patches of cartoon characters all over it. Though it felt childish, he did make out a shape of a cloud to be similar to an elephant without tail like he used to do during his childhood along with his friends.

Pursing in his lips, as he gulped down another hot sip, and looked around the room. He had everything in the room, a TV which stood proudly on a stand in front of the bed, his new mobile that lay beside his pillow and his iPad that lay on the same TV stand but none of them had been able to work the magic that the hot tea was doing now along with the fresh air and a childish look at the sky. The work that he had buried himself into, the same work that got him all the recognition he needed making him wealthy had also failed to get this feeling that he was feeling now. For a moment he thought why really he rushes to work so early and returns late itching for more work and more load; and if ever it was necessary and worth.

A numerous thoughts kept coming in but he fought against each one of them and sat comfortably with a firm decision of enjoying the cool morning with all the freshness and simple things that he was now feeling amazed of!  The simple and the sweet nature had won against all the gadgets that had surrounded him since years of which he was habituated! He now did felt his mind neither asking him to get up from the chair and take a look at the mobile for the messages or to scroll his FB page nor did it ask him to switch on the TV; it just told him, “It’s your life and it’s your day, just enjoy it!”

He didn’t even realize that he had finished the tea, enjoying it to its max, while he was calculating how busy and materialized his life had become that he had been missing all the small things, surprisingly available freely in nature, that in reality brought a happy smile on his face; instead keeping him occupied in the busy and boring world of yearning of an unknown dream and a mighty account while driving him remote from the sweet and simple world of nature that was filled with family, friends, and lots of fun and which was free!

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Wishing you all dear readers a sweet and simple and safe autumn, a free gift from nature! 

Don't forget to enjoy this autumn with a hot cup of tea and a plate full of pakoras!

Vishal…

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