NATURE WILL RESPOND TO US IF WE ARE WILLING TO COMMUNICATE WITH IT

With my wife unable to join me for the usual morning sojourns, these days the nearby Roshanara Club nursery is a magnet for lonesome nature lover like me.

My lonely thoughts are banished in the company of abundant plants and trees, scores of them planted by me. I talk to them as I walk around, occasionally touching their leaves. The relationship is slowly blossoming to an effect that I often share my life with them, confiding things I have never told anyone. And truly, once I offload those thoughts which are buried deep in my heart, the feeling is so light. It is as if a mountain is off my chest. One feels light as a feather then.

Sometimes it’s about a situation at work or home, where I am muddled with options. I helps to share such dilemmas with my green friends. And they respond! The leaves sway when I touch them and the message is transmitted across. Then, I am engulfed by years of wisdom accumulated within them.

Contrariwise, even they miss me when for some reason I break from my daily routine. Ever since my chats with the green companions have intensified, the bloom and blossom is conspicuous.

I persuaded a friend who had planted a neem tree sapling a few months ago, to just touch the infant tree and simply ask “how are you?” Within a couple of weeks the tree grew splendidly as if basking in the affection showered upon by a mother’s touch.

Anyone who has doubts, give it a try.