Every time I go for a morning walk in the campus and observe how nicely all trees and animals exist together, doing one ‘cute’ thing or the other in silence: trees silently dropping some random things on the roads followed by sweepers putting those things on one side of the road, squirrels running, fighting, eating in the middle of the road and suddenly disappearing, dogs randomly barking and getting excited seeing the ‘Parle-G’ biscuits (there’s always one adorable black dog in a group of dogs which acts all mysterious: lazy, slow, smelling food too many times, resting in a corner and so on), pigeons ‘sitting’ still on the slanted roof and then roaming together on soil, leaving their cute ‘leg’ marks in some pattern and then each flying behind one another due to some random reason, I always get reminded of this blurry but beautiful memory from my childhood for no reason.

I remember when I was in 3rd standard, me and my parents came back from market and I heard some weak voices coming from some corner, only to find a nest and some baby birds in it, opening their beaks and trying to say something. They were so small. I called my mom and showed them to her with so much surprise and fear: what if something happens to them?

The following morning, I was half asleep when my mom started to wake me up from our home’s verandah and asked me to see those bird babies and I saw something very different: my mom was cleaning home and those baby birds were roaming around in the verandah, trying to fly, sometimes even striking doors or walls. I felt something different that day: There was my mom, co-existing with those bird babies trying to fly. For the first time, I felt that my mom is not so strict as she seems (always asking me to eat more and study properly) and I thought how wonderful it feels when we exist with nature without any rush and allow everything (including us) to just exist, each doing our own work without interferring other’s.

Soon after the parent birds took their babies. I was surprised how soon those birds were supposed to fly. I don’t really know why this incident got stuck in my mind but I find nature cute and cool and in resonance with something very nice which can make any human soul forget everything sad and bad forever if one allows it to do so.