Window

Ah! Not the Microsoft Windows, the actual window. Since the Microsoft OS, whenever someone utters the word windows the first thing that comes to our mind is the OS. That is the kind of influence of technology. Anyway I mean the real window.

In our office in Bangalore we get a number of opportunities to distract ourselves from the work since the day starts. Breakfast in the morning at 9, Tea/Coffee at 11, Meeting at 12, lunch at 1, Tea/Coffee at 4, Snacks at 6, Telecon at 8, dinner at 9. So I am always all the time with my friends, colleagues, people. In US it is kind of different, people are around but they are busy with themselves. So nature and loneliness have become my new friends and this is really abundant in US. In Bangalore whenever I used to feel bored I used to go and bug someone or the other and take them to terrace and have some coffee, juice or anything. Here at one corner of the office, which is deserted with empty cubicles, there a wide glass wall or say a big window all over. So whenever I am bugged, frustrated, bored, sad or happy I come and stand at this place.

I am looking out at this window since start of the February, the day I have arrived here. Out of this window there is nothing great but it is still great to stand and view from here. As I look down there is one big strip of lawn and pine trees and trees with leaves like in Mohabbatein film, then the private road from the parking lot. At the left and at the right there is this huge parking area. In the middle there is a small pond. Then far end again grass and road for walk and end of our campus. After that there is a huge farm, and lot of forest like trees. I can the see the K-7 highway and the vehicles at distance. Then there seems to be end of the horizon after that greenery and start of the territory of sky. The picture at this side is not exactly how it looks, but I would like to put some picture along with words so that why this is at this side.

The setup is very same all the while. There is no change in the position of anything anywhere. Even people here are so standardized that they park their vehicles at the same place since years. Even though nothing moves from its position, this whole setup never looks the same every time I visit here. In February it was totally covered with snow and no leaves at all. All the trees were bald and beautiful. Then in mid of march snow melted away and dry grass everywhere. In May June everything turned green and looked so fresh. It looks so different when it rains, quite different on a sunny day. A different look in the morning and totally different in the evening. The same place looks different in so many ways and what is the reason for this. Well! the same place is influenced by a lot of other factors like sunlight, clouds, wind, weather condition, and time.

Now something flashed in my mind. This is very much analogous to us. I as a person am very much the same, I have the same face, same brain, same heart, same body, since years. Of course there would be mostly some improvement I suppose, in terms of our personality and behaviour and some depreciation in terms of age. But still we don't remain the same person w.r.t something or someone else. We are all the time influenced by so many other factors and these parameters makes us behave differently in varied situations and circumstances. The place where we stay, the friends we have, the atmosphere around us, the people around us, the culture, the time period, and so many other things even the non-living things very much make us in many ways. This is so much hidden that we will ourselves will not be knowing what are we now and what we were like before and what we will be further.

With all this still everyone has an identity and are unique. Everyone have a specific place on this earth. It is like my above analogy, the static ground with a floating sky. So is a personality....