Reflections!

As you grow older your perception to life changes. During the fire at our apartment, our first instinct was to run down. And during the Amphan cyclone we were prepared, though certainly not for the proportion of calamity that happened. Yesterday's earthquake caught us unaware, did not give reaction time, except to accept. Bhaskar carried on with his lunch, I decided to meet my fate here and not go down the staircase from our 8th floor apartment and Chib held the madly swinging railway clock as he thought it would fall off the hook! The acceptance made me realize that maybe I do not want to run anymore! Call it age, loss of mobility, will or resignation! The year has been not so kind so far, health issues,horrific death of a forever neighbour, haven't been the way I feel generally. And then I look at my plants in my sun dappled balcony. Ten days back they looked yellow, wilted and uncared for,all thanks to my absence from home. But today they bloomed, the leaves looked green, the flowers blossomed and my prayer space looked bright again. Life goes on, and there is an expiry date to troubled times too!