Day 4: i'm very busy relaxing!

Dhrafa trip was as great as any. I met a ton of people who've seen me crawl when i was little to now when I'm quarter century old. It is a very intriguing life that people live in the villages of our country. Its easy to generalize but so distinctly different in each geography. India is very aptly called "a country of countries". We attended a function at one of our farms hosted by a person who's been with our family since 3 generations now. Relationships build through ages, weathered and tested both by good & bad times, into strength and trust. Light hearted conversations regarding a lot of things in and around the world. Pre-conceived notions over-rule actual life. Simple life. Planting trees, farming crops, predicting prices and awaiting rain. Local celebrations and happenings dictate their life. Most of them don't know what credit crunch and global recession is, except the picture painted by local news-papers and that the situation is "grave". Such appreciable innocent life, impresses me by wonders.Their predictions of weather are based on factors like wind direction during special days, size-quantity-color-contours of clouds during special days, birds migrating, animals reacting differently. Immensely congruent to actual happenings. Observational skill applied to perfection. These things aren't new to us at all, just that I have a medium now to propagate.

The other thing that's strikingly different is the difference in the lives at work (i.e. at farms) & at home (in the village). The thought process, the talks and the expectations are poles apart. The different life styles and thinking of ladies who work in the field and who stay at home are subject of enormous psychological study. How demographics play a very important role in the decision making of so many people. Living impacts thinking and vice-versa. Innocence overflows from their lack of knowledge outside their world. Everyone accepts that time has changed, life has changed, people's thinking have changed. The only problem that I feel, is acceptance and agreeing to the validity of other cultures. There's no denying the fact that our culture is great, but that doesn't give us the right to look down upon any other culture. If I don't like western food or attires, I shouldn't be hating people who have a liking for the same. Swikar.

Its ironic because knowledge of things brings worries and pain. If we could wipe off all that we know from our brains, we would be living life much simply with lesser worries. Don't you feel? Discoveries & Inventions which were designed to ease life has complicated it immensely. The "Gods Must Be Crazy" initial clipping here and the narration comes to my mind right now.

Enjoying the very relaxed religious days passing by, talking to relatives over the phone, family meals over the table. Eating my favorite dishes away to weighted glory. The internet connection speed here bites me. I've mentioned this bit before, where I feel the traffic jams in Bangalore's Hosur Road were so bad, that we could compare them to slowly progressing progress bar of a large file over a slow internet connection. Bare with my weird sense of analogies.

Relaxed.