BIRD STORY

I love my office building, unlike the dingy cabinet in an overcrowded buildings, it’s a specious building with huge corridors and a small garden space between the 2 building and a long breezeway connecting them. This small garden space has 4 palm trees of varied shape and a small bamboo jungle. The bamboo shrub is the home to thousands of sparrows. They too following our time table return home at 5.30 pm sharp. And make hell lot of chaos!

Somedays I stare at the mess and wonder do they fight for space or is it a chaotic parliamentary meeting they conduct at the end of the day.  Sometimes they even conduct a flying competition before returning home.

Mainas are the dedicated couple birds; Modern in their outlook, to have nuclear families. Their motto being - small family, happy family. Having loud harsh voices, good, that they don’t live in thousands.

Pigeons are over dominating species. As they love the concrete jungle, various small holes and parapets are being there favorite place, they pretty much occupy the unused parapets and the unoccupied office space. All day sitting around or just making lazy movements on the 3 inches horizontal extensions in the walls.

Every time I cross the corridor of my office, I find these two pigeons separate from the rest of the crowd, living on a chimney on a different wall.

They are always there; Just the 2 of them. Like, away from the kingdom, in a separate island. After repeatedly watching them in that separate confined place I wondered what has cause them this dissolution??  Are they disowned by the society?? Abandoned because the society didn’t accept their love? Is she the king’s daughter who fell in love with just an average soldier like in the story Happiness!!! I wonder and wonder!! Are they happy being alone away from the crowd in a world of two!!

Yet, they seems quite happy to me; Just the two of them - lost in love.