NEVER A DULL MOMENT
If growing-up is fun, then, there should never be a dull
moment in life!
Because, growing-up
is a life-long experience…
This morning, I
caught myself giving a long sermon to a group of six students of twelfth
standard. Suddenly, it struck me, in the midst of my sermon, that some
twenty-five years ago, incidentally, I had taught either one or both the parents
of all these six students! And, I realized that I used to sermon the parents of
these young ones, those days, as animatedly as I was doing this morning! Yes,
the same fire and passion… same temper and language!
“Hey, now listen to
me, you guys,” I found myself telling my ‘faithful’, “a quarter-century ago, I
used to lecture your dads or moms exactly the way I am doing to you now!”
They giggled!
My sermon ended!
“I will tell you
guys,” I shook my head with a lot of contentment, “there has never been a dull
moment in all these years!”
Honestly, I meant
every bit of that line!
Life has been a roller-coaster ride… I had enough of
everything which one could ever hope to have in life. Times were good and times
were bad… There were moments of success and there were moments of failures…
There have been so many good souls to lean on and there have been so many to
let me down… Things have worked the way I have planned and things have fallen
apart breaking my heart… And, there have been pleasant surprises… gifts, bonuses
and windfalls - all like the precious ‘Manna’ from heaven! There have been
times, I have felt like a winner in life… and, there have been times, I have
felt like a loser…
All this?
Yes, yes.
And, still, there is
a reason
to believe that
there has never been
a dull moment in life?
Yes, there has never
been!
At 6.45, this morning, when I opened the curtains of our
window, my heart smiled at what I first saw outside. A lady was taking her
brisk walk.
What is so special
about it?
“Darling,” I called
my wife, “look here!”
When my darling wife
saw the sight, her heart too smiled. “Never a dull moment here!” she shook her
head.
The lady was taking
rounds after rounds holding her quite-a-big Doberman close to her
heart!
Yes, if growing-up is fun, then, there should never be a dull
moment in life!
Because, growing-up
is a life-long experience!
“Now you go home and
ask your parents,” I had told my young-six this morning, “whether or not I
preached them with the same fire and ice twenty-five years ago!”
Never a dull moment,
darling… Never, ever!
GERALD D’CUNHA
Pics.: Prakash S. Nayak
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