The nearer, the farther. The farther, the nearer.

I was watching a television show in Vijay tv which Gopi was hosting. A realisation was put forth to the Ayarathil Oruvan crew. The movie had made a guy to read about his hometown Tanjore. This is not the first time that something like this is happening. When something is nearer to us, we seldom care about that. In fact we dont even care to bother about that. But we are very much eager to know more about things which are very far from us. Well many of us know about the egyptian mummies, but if the same question is asked about the Ahgori's of Kasi, many of us would just blink as if they were asked a question about some other universe in existence. Even i wouldnt have known until i saw the movie Nan Kadavul. I was taking a stroll with my friend in the streets near my college. His mom had asked him to visit a temple and he had not done that. The best part was the temple was just 5 mins walk from our college and he was staying there for nearly 6 months. Is this take it for granted attitude going to help us. Why others, let me take my own example. The National Library (The largest library of our Country.) was just 2 mins from my home in Kolkata. But i never bothered to go there. But there are exceptions in my case, One is the restaurant and the other is the Cinema theatre. I have never hesitated to go there because i like both or may be that was one of my way of passing time. Even Humans are not spared. When a customer goes to a shop to buy something, the shopkeeper would be more than keen to help him. When the same help is needed at home, it rarely happens. This attitude is not going to help us in any way as things get farther, we feel a slight tinge of pain of not having acknowledged that.