the park-bench

“Ohh! there is that park and there might be some benches”. You’d be surprised if you hear 10 people saying this, all at one time and all of them have crossed their teen-years. You’d be shocked if you know that all of them are studying in one of the best institutes of world and it’s pretty sure that they’re going to be very rich and successful. But they were not born in a rich country and their parents don’t have loads of money. It is their own ability that has brought them in Europe for three months. Technically they’re here for ‘Internship’ but who likes research?. They want to see the world, the most beautiful parts of it. They all know that it’ll not be possible in their professional career so why not now? Even if they have to spend nights sleeping on benches of public parks, they’ll go out every week-end. Even if they’ve to walk 40 km in a day to visit an entire city like Rome or Barcelona, they’ll go out still.

I’ve never known this outlook of humans towards a park. It is supposed to be a place for jogging and for kids to play and for love-birds to meet but whenever we see a park, our eyes want to spot a few benches just like eyes of cat want to spot a rat. It is necessary to find a shelter otherwise we’ll not be able to sleep and next day everybody will feel lethargic. We don’t care if some police-man comes in the middle of night and kicks us all away or there happens to be a rain-fall. We’ll think about it when it actually happens, till then- we look for parks and nothing else in them, only the benches.