Question

you recently visited your grandparents, who live in a village, away from the humdrum activities of a city life. narrate your experience of living with them in lap of nature.

Answer 1

My grandparent's house in our village is the place where I feel I am perfectly content. It is just not a place but the heart of my family and our relationships. Though presently we live miles away and visit it only every summer, it is still the best place on earth to me where I cherish very gratifying memories. It endears to me as a place where I started the journey of my life and has the roots of my upbringing under the tender and loving care of my grandparents. The house was not an epitome of architecture but was definitely an embodiment of placid people embellished with warmth of love and affection. It is a small house with three bedrooms and the front door of the house was connected to the gate of the garden with a huge open space leading to a set of concrete steps. These concrete steps are the adobe of all our cousins where we would sit for hours together exploring the innumerable stars in the sky, and sharing and caring for each other relishing the delicious South-Indian dishes made and served by the superwoman of our family, my grandmother. Those immensely treasured moments are cherubic and perpetual in my memory.

I have a special association with my grandfather's old-fashioned Paduk chair whose arms are exceptionally polished to give that mirror surface look. My grandfather would sit in that chair with all of us around facing the soft billowing greens of planted paddy fields just opposite to our backyard telling the stories of his times reminiscing the feelings of harmony and renewal. Watching the dust rising from the emerald green paddy fields and orchards with the symphony of birds flying high into the clouds is one of the most calming experiences under the sun. It is a beautiful village with picturesque landscapes, incredible variety of rare and native species of flora, peaceful and pristine environs of the echoing hills, and the tranquility of the Penna river flowing through the village makes one awe-struck with the serenity of the place. Swimming in the Penna river, rowing a boat, flying kites on windy autumnal evenings along with my cousins were some of the many riveting endeavors we all cherish till date. How can I not mention the hospitality and amicability of the wonderful and diligent people in the village who welcome us with the same affection even today when we visit them every summer? My grandparents, the house, especially the shared concrete steps, and the village have taught us some of the biggest lessons of life, which in fact have enriched the quality of life we have now in an otherwise bleak and entangled city life.

My father's profession brought us in to a rather perturbed and strident city culture, which I still like because I am a part of it, but my true identify come from my grandparent's village where I belong to. It is a feeling of paradise lost when I am not there, but my family, including my cousins, visit the place every summer and even today I feel the same warmth a real home bestows and I constantly bombard myself with the childhood memories from the place and relinquish myself to the real contentment and gratification I esteemed and still esteem at this marvelous place. Often we are comforted by the thought that a place is ours, that we belong to it, even come from it, and therefore are tied to it in some fundamental way. Such places reaffirm our sense of self, reflecting back to us an unthreatening picture of a ground identity and this is what my grandparent's house is to me where I am perfectly content because here I can revisit my upbringing values which have in fact positively affected my life, and this place is extremely meaningful to me as I am free to be my true self without having to pretend to be a person who I am not as in an otherwise pompous and conceited world.

Answer 2

Answer:

I have lived in a crowded city for the most part of my life, I never got a chance to enjoy the bounties of nature. It was only when I visited my grandparents who live in the beautiful small town of Uttarakhand that I realised what we miss when we detached from nature. The village lies in the hills on the banks of a beautiful river.

Explanation:

I have lived in a crowded city for the most part of my life, I never got a chance to enjoy the bounties of nature. It was only when I visited my grandparents who live in the beautiful small town of Uttarakhand that I realised what we miss when we detached from nature. The village lies in the hills on the banks of a beautiful river. The small town seemed to me the Xanadu of Kubla Khan. Life seemed to have a pace of its own, easy-going and tranquil sometimes and full of activity. Everything in nature had its own power and distinctiveness, provided by God. It took many forms, changing from season to season and even from minute to minute, such as the river water looking bright blue in the morning but by noon becoming a bright emerald green colour. The sky would change its colour all through the day from pale pink at sunrise, to dazzling blue in late morning, bright orange at sunset and purple by twilight. It would affect my mood also, such as happy and serene at sunrise, lazy during the rain and frisky like adeer at springtime. The moonlight would seem enchanting and ethereal. In the countryside, life was very peaceful and safe. I realised that people living in the countryside did not have to worry much about how their lives looked. They went to work just to earn enough to support their family. Everyone was affectionate and magnanimous, always willing to share everything such as fruits, food, and clothing.

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