Appreciate!

‘Musée du Louvre’, the most visited art museum in the world! 4-5 young men walking in a gallary, slowly, looking at paintings, both sides. Here comes the famous work by Jacques-Louis David, ‘the coronation of Napoleon’. Here comes ‘John the Baptist’ by leonardo da vinci. YES! the one which leonardo da vinci paited himself, not a photo-copy. But they’re walking, just walking. With the same speed, 1 step in 2 seconds. They’re aware of one thing that it’s the famous Louvre Museum and they really want to appreciate everything. The paintings, sculptures, very old pots of babylonian time etc. etc. But appreciation is not possible while you’re standing or walking. They say-lets find a place to appreciate these things. No explanation required-all of them understand the code language. Some day when you’re dead tired or you’re not even slightly interested in art-work, you’d understand that language too. If you still didn’t get what they meant, they’re looking for a place to SIT.

But sad news for them! they’re not the only ones who want to ‘appreciate’. There are more, I mean too many-just like them. Wherever there are seats, lot of people are already appreciating. They move on but no luck this time either. Now one of them sees through the window and voila! there is some space around the big sculptures(or statues, whatever)and they go downstairs and right towards the PLACE. No sooner they begin their appreciation, a security personnel comes and asks them to stand up, “Not a place to sit”.

We had audio-guides too and whenever the weight hanging in the neck reminded us of 5 euros, all of us pressed some number and started learning about the history, for not more than a minute in any case. I found a 20 seconds long music track in the audio-guide(which was really good) so I just listened to that, probably more than 100 times. The time is passing away but we knew every second of it which seemed like an hour.

Now we entered into a hall and a saw huge crowd. Somebody said-look! there is monalisa! We opened our eyes for the first time. You guessed it wrong. Not to see monalisa, nobody even gazed at it but to find some space in the crowd and take one picture having monalisa in the backgroud. When was this painted?Who was Monalisa? Some questions went through my mind and I started using my audio-guide. It was too boring to be continued and I excused that I’ll wiki these questions later. We moved on like every other time in search of a place to appreciate…..that was never to be found!