Friday, October 17, 2008

Staying calm in chaos ..

I ve taken a brief hiatus from blogging.. blame it on the Argentinian delegation visiting this week.
Yesterday, we were going out for lunch together. On a busy, main arterial road of the city, we saw a cow resting / sleeping happily.
All the vehicles slow down and take cautious turns around it and move on.
"Cows on the Raod" have been the bill board of India in other advanced countries for a while. Not so surprisingly, the Argentinian's wanted to stop the car and decided to take pictures of the cow and video of the traffic moving around it. It was worth a chuckle for them.
However, what I noticed, is that the amount of calm around that obstruction in the busy mid-morning road.
Most of the city drivers were cool with it. Slowly taking round abouts. More over the cow was also cool with it. Not bothering about the huge vehicles running around her.
Mankind has long tried to figure out this core mantra of rest to avoid the inherent urban rest-less-ness leading to stress.
Time to learn from that cow ?

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