Sunday, May 22, 2011

The Tourist

During a casual walk down a famous street in arguably one of the most coveted city of India I overheard couple of tourists praising a particular aspect of that city. And it was the same aspect which made the native disown the city many a times, complain about it insatiably and at times simply ignore it under the garb of a helpless acceptance.

Walking ahead of the two tourists I wondered how the same thing appealed to some who probably saw and lived it for a day while it disgusted the ones who witnessed and faced it every day. Subsequently it dawned on me that sometimes it’s better to take a breather and ‘become’ a tourist to our own problems, relationships, dilemmas and our own being. It surely helps us grow some more (and much needed) green grass on our emotional pasture.

PS: How to ‘become’ that tourist? That, I am afraid, can’t be generalised.

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10 comments:

Rimi said...

Typical NovoSphere-ish :)

Amal said...

Wat abt the passport n visa??!!

Novoneel Chakraborty said...

Amal, apply for the 'passport' and the 'visa' first and then see what happens.. :)

Debajit Saha said...

Great Thinking...!! But yes, the problem is how to become that Tourist?

Debajit Saha said...

Actually, our mind and heart is full of so many confusions and invisibility, and thus sometimes we just can't ignore them. And at this situation the transformation from a every day viewer to a Tourist is very difficult. Yes we can try. As to get a life soothing solution we should always try.

Bashoree said...

Very nice..typical Novoism :-)

Novoneel Chakraborty said...

Very true Debajit! :)

Thanks di !! :))

Ri said...

as usual insightful :)
Being a tourist is one of the most difficult things, but u might always get some help ...

Novoneel Chakraborty said...

'Some help' !! That's what we all are after ain't Ri??

Thank you for the comment..:)

Novoneel Chakraborty said...

Thanks Nikki ! :)