LIFE...are we living it??

This quaetion has long haunted me and post lage raho munnabhai... this issue has again rejuvenated. crowd,noise,pollution,the unending race after time,JEE,CAT,GRE, the hunhub the tension ...where is the life that was supposed to be gone??The question is that chasing after our ever changing dreams have we stopped enjoying the journey.
Just a few days I was returning back from home.There is a 1.5 km stretch that I have to walk home.The city was just waking up.As I waking at my own leisurly pace,I could see the occasional vehicles passing by.All sorts of people - new techies going for their work in company cabs,parents dropping their children to school,school buses.It was like my chain of thought was being instigated by the woosh of the passing of vehicles.An occasional 16 something too passed by pushing their scotteretes to its limits.reminded me of myself a years back though I owned a good old Bajaj priya :).
All this was very good.But the saddest part was that I could not find a single smile on any face.It started out as a casual observation but even after carefully looking at each face passing by me in fast forward motion(likr our lives),I could not find even one smile.It seemed all of their were contorted into some weird expression that was incomprehensible to me.Some faces which I could not see were buried in text books.Is this what we have bargained for??and you want to know the weirdest part of all-the only face that shone of happiness.A laborer(thats my guess) goin on a batterd ATLAS in one of the shabbier set of clothes you will see humming some hindi song..
Is all hope lost...not yet..not yet..
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