As usual, I wake up late, decide not to iron my dress(as usual!!), gulp in some breakfast and rush up to the road to find that there are no autos on the road.. I walk, walk, walk and walk... until finally an auto driver shows some mercy and when I reach there, I see my usual bus pulling out of the stand.. Now I have to wait another 10mts for the next bus. As I stand there [fuming], I notice some pigeons strutting about around my feet... They are searching their way through the dust collected on the roadside for food..they are many of them, yet each remains alone.. None of them foraying into the others territory.. Everything about them fascinates me: their color, the way they fly, their mutual co-operation.... One of the pigeons looks up and I fancy to myself that it has met my eye. Unexpectedly, I find all my anger melting away and I smile at it...
By the time my bus has come, I'm not fuming anymore... I look out of the window, and see that my feathered friends have flown off. But I still smile in the satisfaction that in this city, that has grown so rapidly in the last few years, that you wonder where that old-city charm has gone, has not lost all of its innocence after all!!!!
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