Lift the silence, Road to Noise


In fast escaping evening hours of Wednesday, I came out of a beautiful meeting and was waiting for the lift to transport me down from the 14th Floor. The bell rang and the doors slided sidewards…I stepped in and gifted myself and the existing young passengers  a gentle smile. Their response was strange eyes and zipped lips…only to give way after some moments to a teasing laughter amongst themselves.

I moved on.. walked past the campus and soon found myself amidst Noise Wars…autorickshaw grrrring here and bikes squeaking there, SUVs & Sedans bullying here while buses elbowing there. In my recent interactions with many friends and business colleagues, traffic has been a staple conversation. Somehow our Culture has a new mirror in form of the roads.

Everybody’s in a hurry, very few have got the courtesy-patience, signals are milestones to be broken, honks are ringtones to be flaunted, out-smarting the other vehicle is somehow linked to performance appraisals, daring the speed is the new bravado.

Smiles to strangers are a rarity,  Silence-Stranger-ness in the Lift is a Surity,
From Bullock-cart on the road to the Bullies, Have detoured way and way too much in the Sillies;
“Take your Time” says  Easwaran, “Wear your Smile” says Tagore,
Love is at the heart of the Universe, We are all but a puff in the emptyful galore.

Scriptures are replete with defining “Patience”, “Courtesy” & “Lovingness” , and so does the Modern Science make it as a “must have” for Happiness as skimmed over by a Scientist over 2000 Books on Happiness. What we give out as a behavior is what is either reinforcing it for someone or becoming a cause for changing his existing one.  If we take with us some gentle Smileful noise and exchange pleasantries in Lift, and transfer Silence of the Lift to the roads…perhaps World would be a better place.

Happy Lifting Road to Life.

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