Change in perspective.

I am a great lover of birds. Watching birds has been a passion since childhood. Waking up early and just listening to the chirping sounds of birds makes me ecstatic. It is the most soothing thing for me. Recently I watched a documentary on birds. The narrator explains how birds try to claim their territory by bringing out different sounds and really screaming out loud to make their point clear that "This property is mine". He explained further that when they sense danger they have a different sound with varying frequencies. So the next day I went out in the morning to my patio where I have put up a bird feeder. A "chikadee" who was busy eating looked at me and flew straight to a tree nearby and started making different sounds. This is not new it happens all the time. But the difference now was that, before I watched the documentary I would feel the sound of this bird to be very soothing and relaxing without realising what the bird exactly was feeling. It is soothing even now but it made me actually feel a little guilty. The bird was actually petrified to death that it would be attacked and hence it was yelling out loud that there is danger here . But for me that same sound is relaxing. What an irony!! Similarly I used to enjoy whenever two or more birds made these beautiful sounds in my patio but now I am awakened to the fact that they are actually telling each other "Get out of my territory" but again that to me was soothing:-) Before I used to watch birds in an abstract way and would think wow!! they are such beautiful creatures on earth with such an assuasive voice, thats it. But after I watched the documentary I look at these magnificient little angels in a diffrent way. Now when I go to the patio and see them flying away and singing I feel that oh no!! they are getting scared of me. But yet I would like to live in this belief that they are extremely happy and spreading that happiness to us by bringing out that melodious song of theirs.

Most Touching book.

Few days back I read this book "A Journal for Jordan" by Dana Canedy. I was totally engrossed in it as it was a real life story. It was about a chivalrous army man and his family. The book is written by his wife Dana Canedy who has a year old kid. Through this book she made me realize that life is so precious and you should be happy for every moment that you spend with your family 'cos you never know what might happen the next minute. When you read this book it makes you realize the scarifices the army men make in order to protect us and our country. They put their lifes in jeopardy for the whole country. Their efforts and sacrifices are commendable. This book touched my soul in many ways.