This seems to be a funny topic, isn't it?
Even I thought so when this came to my mind. Everytime I take off from any airport, when I look down as the plane gains altitude, I get amazed by the fact that how we can see the entire city in a few seconds. Especially Mumbai airport. It takes about 1 hour to reach the Mumbai International airport from the downtown. While you are travelling in a car you feel how complicated it is to find a route to reach the airport and also feel hopeless that nothing good would happen to this city with respect to congestion and traffic. But when you take off from the airport, one sees the overall picture very clearly. Where and how and why the congestion is. One can also think of ways and methods to overcome this. May be that's the origin of the word "overview". From a height things become so clear and evident and also appear to be small. May be that is the reason that God is always imagined to be sitting in the heavens, high above the earth so that he can watch everyone from where he is and make changes to their lives very quickly as for him he has an "overview" of the entire situation down there.
Why don't people adopt this attitude in life? Why can't they look at a bigger picture as seen from the aeroplane and instead get stuck up in smaller, cumbersome issues like those in the Mumbai road traffic?
Probably that's what makes God - God & man - man!!
God, tussi great ho!
Atul
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Atul BivalkarI am a Mechanical Engineer with a passion for travel, reading and music. Forts in India, different religious philosophies, history in general are topics close to my heart. Categories
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