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In my opd room(*322), many patients come
I listen to their symptoms,I observe their signs.
I read their faces, their agonies and smiles.
I have a problem, I have trouble remembering names
But being a poet I can very well feel their pains.
( *”Pain demands to be felt”)
A 70 years old lady(*?Bano) comes for her,
routine follow-up. I am really fond of her.
She reminds me of my grandmother.
Who keeps on smiling inspite of her
loneliness and so many turmoils in her
life. She has a respiratory problem and has arthritis, but still she at that age is exuding grace and energy.
She always left ,with a smiling face after taking her bland medicines and always bless me by placing her hand on my head and by the process eventually ruining my hairstyle.(*I have a fuzzy hair ( :-()
You see people grow old, and they become children again,but in this process they become lonely as they have very few persons to look after. Sometimes I think that, like as air becomes thinner and thinner ,as we ascend through a mountain , relationships and people around us begin to attenuate and disappear as one grows older. (*poor analogy I guess :-|, ignore if u can).
She is an old lady but like my grandma she always smiles, and she is always grateful for whatever she has, even though her children left her and rarely visit her nowadays.
When she left my clinic she always bless me, she caresses my hair (* I don’t like that ,cause my hairstyle gets ruined). She always reminds my grandmother who also do so, but it’s ok hairstyle and looks eventually goes away at some point of time.
In this modern age everybody is so much into their looks and their needs that we forget that life is meant to live with simpler aspects in a simpler dimension. People striving for money ,fame, possessions and good looks are abundant nowadays. Sometime we get what we seek for but,
In doing so we forget the finer aspects of life and forget those people ,for whom we reach the Pinnacle of our success. Too much ambition made us selfish from the core.
Gratitude for living a life full of joy and not much ambition is rare nowadays.
And,Ambition comes with a heavy price,
that is lonelinesssss.
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