It’s been over a week since I am back home in Pune, India. I have come for vacations after a 9-month stay in the USA.
I am desperately looking for changes…in spite of knowing that nothing really changes in a year. But some things have changed and some are still the same. The ones that have changed are the obvious ones…the big malls, the roads, etc. The inconspicuous have remained inconspicuous.
I was riding my kinetic through the busiest road in my area..the Senapati Bapat Road. I saw around…
The busy road has become busier; there are more people, more cars, faster cars, and better cars…what with an Audi showroom on the road. The Piramyds mall has been taken over by the India Bulls mart and so is TruMart. There is now a Pune Central at a 10-minute distance from my home. Well..my home itself has been renovated.
There are flyovers running across the city. The Pune Muncipal Corporation has started building cement roads on the tar ones… due to some sudden enlightenment.
However, as inconspicuous as the corner where he sits is…he too has remained inconspicuous – without an iota of change in him. I am talking about the guy who sits at the signal on this busy road – he paints number plates – from black to white and vice versa.
He still sits in the same place, on the same piece of furniture, with the same board to advertise his job that saves people that have ignored the number plate rule…and ofcourse with the same expression on his face. Be it a bright sunny day or a dull rainy day… he sits there with his paraphernalia.
This is just an example…just something that I spotted on a busy day on a busy road.
A year made no change in his life. Well yes just that his customers probably changed their cars.
My life changed in a year…in several aspects. Then why not his? It probably did…we did not see…we did not realize…he kept his change to himself.
