Karthika Nandakumar | Ernakulam
It was a morning as any other. I was making my way to the class that day, had to pass through a passage which separates two buildings. This is the little place that I love the most in the school. It is lined with an array of trees which houses many local birds, squirrels and some beautiful butterflies- it is the oxygen belt of 'Adarsha’ and I make sure that I walk this way up and down a couple of times a day even though it meant taking a longer route to my classes. Today was a mystic, an other worldly experience. As I was on my way to the class, the routine relaxation mantra of 'OM’ was playing on the public addressal system in the school. I got stranded on this passage lined with trees, I stood there confounded by the sounds that caught my ears. Hundreds of crickets were singing in harmony with the meditating chants of 'OM’.I think , I had an epiphany that moment, a realisation of how nature has its own way.
I ask myself, Whether the crickets have been disciplined to sing in chorus, during the routine 'OM’ chanting every morning or Was it the nature's way to be in the moment or Were the crickets singing in unison, to let them be heard - a final cry before the trees are all fell down ?