I was on a trip to Mussorie recently, and realized something, art or rather just the act of making things beautiful means a lot more in life than immediately apparent. The town is a tourist spot, and that must be the reason why the city is so well decorated. There are murals along the roads, the bus stops en route are artistically designed. It just felt good to walk through the streets, the feeling i later recognized was one of pride and content. Its almost like being at home. Of being nurtured, the road was more than just a path to another place but an end unto itself, it symbolised that it was not the destination that one must look forward to but the journey.
I feel that it is this very feeling that lacks in India today. The feeling of being more that just "this will do the job", because in such a case there is very little to inspire, it does not suggest that we are doing more than just surviving, we are thriving. And as far as i know that feeling is very important for a society to coexist peacefully. Because a person will feel happy only when he is well to do and has more to spare. The need of the hour is therefore not just to build a nation but to do it with elegance, we need to make it such that we are proud of everything that we see, and they don't remind us to things that have gone wrong but things that went right. We do the same thing at our homes. We buy a house, and don't just stay satisfied with the walls and the furniture but more than that we make it a place worth coming back to, we decorate it, we make it a place where we keep our memories. All that we need to do is to extend the same to our surroundings. Lets stop the "chalta hai(will do)" and start giving ourselves more than we need. So that we can strive for more than we thought we could achieve.
I feel that it is this very feeling that lacks in India today. The feeling of being more that just "this will do the job", because in such a case there is very little to inspire, it does not suggest that we are doing more than just surviving, we are thriving. And as far as i know that feeling is very important for a society to coexist peacefully. Because a person will feel happy only when he is well to do and has more to spare. The need of the hour is therefore not just to build a nation but to do it with elegance, we need to make it such that we are proud of everything that we see, and they don't remind us to things that have gone wrong but things that went right. We do the same thing at our homes. We buy a house, and don't just stay satisfied with the walls and the furniture but more than that we make it a place worth coming back to, we decorate it, we make it a place where we keep our memories. All that we need to do is to extend the same to our surroundings. Lets stop the "chalta hai(will do)" and start giving ourselves more than we need. So that we can strive for more than we thought we could achieve.
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