The Best of Ruskin Bond

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“My old school would not be proud of me. Nor would my Aunt Muriel.‘You spend most of your time sitting on that wall, doing nothing,’ scolded Aunt Muriel, when I was seven or eight. ‘Are you thinking about something?’‘No, Aunt Muriel.’‘Are you dreaming?’‘I’m awake!’‘Then what on earth are you doing there?’‘Nothing, Aunt Muriel.’‘He’ll come to no good,’ she warned the world at large. ‘He’ll spend all his life sitting on walls, doing nothing.’And how right she proved to be! Sometimes I bestir mysel...f, and bang out a few sentences on my old typewriter, but most of the time I’m still sitting on that wall, preferably in the winter sunshine. Thinking? Not very deeply. Dreaming? But I’ve grown too old to dream. Meditation, perhaps. That’s been fashionable for some time. But it isn’t that either. Contemplation might come closer to the mark.Was I born with a silver spoon in my mouth that I could afford to sit in the sun for hours, doing nothing? Far from it; I was born poor and remained poor, as far as worldly riches went.MoreLess Read More Read Less