Young at heart...:-)

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       Yesterday while going to the office, witnessed an incident which reminded me the true meaning of "Young at Heart" :-) Many of us might have heard the famous old hindi song, "Abhi to main jawaan hoon..." in various new movies and would have enjoyed it and laughed also, when it portrays some old person in lighter vein... Many old persons might proudly say, that they are still young at heart, though they're aged in body... Many of us strive to be like that in our life too:-) Hope we stick to this philosophy in our sunset days too:-)

      Now lets come back to the incident I am talking about. Yesterday enroute to my office, there was a bus with college students going on a trip. At a traffic junction, while waiting for the signal to turn green, the students in the bus were making noise(as usual in such trips). While some of the motorists might not have liked the noise, but suddenly i saw an old woman on the side walk joining the students by making noise and waving her hand (like saying hi or tata). I was impressed and surprised by this behaviour of the old woman. But, she was not moved by any of these things and she was enjoying the fun alongwith the students, even though she looked like going for some of her personal work. She thoroughly enjoyed the moment and then left, as the signal turned green and bus moved.

      This reminded me of the song "Abhi to main jawaan hoon...", in its literal meaning. I was able to witness the ethos of the song in real :-) This made me think, how we should live our lives and enjoy it to the fullest:-)

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