Life in between a hoarding

Few days back while negotiating the city traffic of pune, I came across a very unfamiliar home in middle of busy traffic joint. The house was at high elevation overseeing the river. It had every aspect which a rich man wants like high elevation, scenic beauty, near to the city etc but the only difference being the home sandwiched between two hoardings.

Let me describe the home. Two hoardings back to back standing high at elevation enough to oversee the river. A small narrow space is created between the hoardings as they are erected back to back. This narrow space is the home I m talking about. It has space for everything even for the cycle which that family owns but it’s just hanged to the hoarding supporting bars.

The scene made me to think how we can live our life. It made me realize that we can live on this earth at any budget. Happiness at the heart is more important than the money. A person behind those hoarding lives his life fullest and a person in Kalyani nagar( elite class area in pune) also lives the same. That makes me wonder why we run behind temporary happiness created by money.

Few days prior to this incident my family ordered a sofa set for our living room costing half a lakh. I just kept on wondering throughout the day whether that sofa really needed when I saw that family between the hoardings. I just kept on thinking throughout the day whether that sofa where we hardly sit is really required for my family……..