As I was reading this quote in a book, an incident of my childhood flashed through my mind and I realized, how true it was.
I was eleven years old and enjoying my summer vacation along with my friends. We found out that a sparrow had laid a nest in one of the ventilators of our house and new born little birds had hatched from the eggs.
Curious by their chirping sound, we decided to check these out. So, one of my friend climbed up to the ventilator, picked one little bird and dropped it below where I was holding a small net to catch it. He came down and we played a lot with it. We named it "choo choo".
It was very tiny and the wings had not yet properly developed. Initially it was a bit scared, but when we fed it with some grains and insects it became comfortable with us. It was running all over the house and then come back to us. It sat on our hands and used to look at us as if it was trying to find something from our faces. Finally, when we felt that we had played enough and its mother would be looking for it, we left it back in its nest and forgot about it.
The next day I saw "choo choo" just below the nest on the floor; dead. I always kept wondering how come it died.
It was much years later when I realized, "choo choo" had learnt to run and jump from the nest before its wings had developed.
"Its never too late to learn, but sometimes its too early"
I was eleven years old and enjoying my summer vacation along with my friends. We found out that a sparrow had laid a nest in one of the ventilators of our house and new born little birds had hatched from the eggs.
Curious by their chirping sound, we decided to check these out. So, one of my friend climbed up to the ventilator, picked one little bird and dropped it below where I was holding a small net to catch it. He came down and we played a lot with it. We named it "choo choo".
It was very tiny and the wings had not yet properly developed. Initially it was a bit scared, but when we fed it with some grains and insects it became comfortable with us. It was running all over the house and then come back to us. It sat on our hands and used to look at us as if it was trying to find something from our faces. Finally, when we felt that we had played enough and its mother would be looking for it, we left it back in its nest and forgot about it.
The next day I saw "choo choo" just below the nest on the floor; dead. I always kept wondering how come it died.
It was much years later when I realized, "choo choo" had learnt to run and jump from the nest before its wings had developed.
"Its never too late to learn, but sometimes its too early"
4 comments:
No wonder sparrows consider all other creatures untouchable. :( Both you and Sarath are the culprits! :)
Beautifully summarized in one line!!! Even I have felt the same a number of times in my life... yes, at times its early to learn few things...
Good One....
Good words.
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