Hello all  hmmm so their are so many things right now going on in my head will jst try to sort out and write in a proper manner ………… im unable to give a title to this page as there are two very different topics ill be focusing on and the way they are connected so don’t know what should be the Header.

As we all are enjoying our summer vacation in the cool cabin’s or say home lot of time in hand and we can take up many things in the sense different courses of our interest or learning new skills………………so a normal thing going on these days with me i took up Driving Classes and Cooking ……………….now these are the two most phobic things im literally afraid of……………..dont knw why but  i luv trying my hands with different things to be a versatile person but cooking and driving are not my cup of tea or say coffee thats what i feel……………….cooking under Mummy’s Guidance and Driving under Baba and an instructor so today was my first day of driving class n guess what it wasnt so good neither soo bad as first time  i was on stearing wheel   n so nervous that it was visible on my face and the way i was sweating but still i kept calm and was just listening to the instructions and very confused between the Clutch and Accelerator and the Gears .Like any normal daughter i   my father to me is a very perfect driver compared to others just relaxing at the back seat and enjoying the drive i never ever got an idea to just have a look at the movements of his legs and the timmings when he shifts it from clutch to break or accelerator to break……………..y to go so in deepth i never ever enquired about the different parts to be monitored to drive a four wheeler and im very bad with two wheeler’s  compared to my other sibbling’s and they all boost that driving is in our Genes ok ok even i inherited same genes only thing is they are in a suppressed state just need to be triggered and then u never know with me so just imagine how my first day on stearing would have been and  i was guggling between the 3  – 4 main contributors in making a four wheeler to move and trying to understand and remember the mechanics behind  so it was hoooooooooo not getting proper word what to say but without any problem was a safe drive a 20 – 30 mins drive so comapared to my first exposure to stearing wheel way back in 2002 something when i just sweared i wont be trying my hands on driving again to today it was very very good ………………..now if u ask me what made me change my idea to take up driving is dont want to learn and do many things  before i die and no harm in it if u r getting an oppurtunity why not giving it a try.So bottom line is im into driving finally wish i learn it n make my dad proud of me . okk now this was the first part of my post .

Coming to second part :

So i accompanied my father to bank to  get some routine things done, we went straight into Branch Manager’s office some forms had to be filled up did that and then enqired her about some issues  and then processing was going on and in mean time they asked me to sit in the main office with the manager who was a sweet and a very patient lady and me  sitting their on a green couch in a cool centralised A/C cabin and just giving a keen watch to the manager who was busy doing some work on her computer………………then their enter’s an old man with a form and asking her how to fill it and she explaning them in local language (Telugu), then entered a second man again   a senior citizen and manager again guiding him to fill the form in some not so good hindi language and so on the same thing continued for an hour and in that one hour i saw about 8 to 9 people entering of them 90% where old people who were unable to walk properly having pain in knees and back hands and palms shivering when they were sitting and while getting up from the sofa and all of them saying with same cause to get their sons or son in laws or daughter’s accounts processed( renewed or getting the KYC form submitted) as they are not here but in abroad for studies probably  i was just watching at the plight of them ……………tht at such an old age when they should be given utmost care as they use to give us when we were young kids unable to walk properly who helped us learn many things in life and stand on our own that they  had to travel in such scroching sun with unfit physical health unable to walk properly and speak properly and getting the works done i really felt pity on them dont know why might be i dont like elderly people doing so much work,  ofcourse they are more experienced compared to us , they have much  knowledge than us , they can keep themselves busy in all this work as most of them were above 70 or around 70s and 80’s with white hair’s charming faces with wrinkles all over their faces sweet smiles greeting each other experience holder’s in short and the young people who were entering they were just unable to speak properly in front of that manager or very very over confident about themselves compared to the oldies who were so quite and calm .Then my dad called me out and we moved to another table to a bench clerk to collect some receipts here the old man whom i saw in the Manager’s office comes to my dad and says…………….Aap ko kahin dekha hai ! Naam to yaad nahi ab umar ka takhaza hai lekin shayad mai aapko janta hoon ………………in a withered breaking tone sweet smile weared eyes he started conversation with my dad and he answered him back saying mujhe Mohd Mujtaba Ali kehtein hai Dr Quasim Ali sab ka ladka hoon……………….. and started introducing himself so actually that old man was my grand father’s friend who was 79 years of age then again a second old man senior citizen came and started talking to my dad and he kept reminding them and they kept saying umar ka takhaza hai me sitting at a distance watching all this ………………….i liked the way my dad responded to these people who were his father’s friend’s and also that they approached him saying we remember you ……………..well to tell you my dad’s pet is “Hyderabad ka charminar”…………….people might be knowing what is charminar an age old monument and hyderabad’s asset and any lay man in hyd can tell you about charminar so is my dad’s position here a personality everyone cherish and longs for i just kept smiling and was thinking how it would have been if my grand father was alive the scenerio would have been more pleasant spiritual and lovely ………………… so all elders where into a nice discussion and me enjoying the talk + the cool environment ……………….. and then suddenly thought about my driving session

hmmm now here u see how both parts are related me being very young compared to them im so inactive and afraid of a simple driving and these people even after having big big surgeries unable to walk peoperly talk properly still being so active and doing all works   and look at me a mental case and i was like cursing myself for  being so  nervous at the driving seat ……………………….. from all this wat i learnt is we have sooo many more  thing’s still to learn we are just nobody in front of them and their experiences lots of paths to cross and loads of works to do ………………. i have seen sum youngsters who dont like old people or keep avoiding them when they give “NASIHAT ” sharing their experiences  people feel bored and bugged up but actually speaking we dont realise what charm they hold and how sweet it is to listen them sharing their experiences with so enthusiasm and making them happy just by giving them a pateint ear i feel its a blessing all over to have elderly people around us and very nice to take care of them .

“CHARMING OLDIES FOREVER GOLDIES”………………….okk this is my post TITLE .

Happy Reading.

Luv,

Shireen Ali