While each one of us thinks about the future and wants to be prepared and planned for the next bunch of days, nay, next bunch of years, some people like to go over the top on their planning. To add on to this, they do so without hesitation. Now why did I say so is owing to my immediate neighbor, a married old couple of over 70 years. The beginning of this year saw them employing a huge machine to pulverize their home... their sweet old home that had seen the best and the worst of days raze to the ground. Why did they do so.... their reply, softly if not with stern looks back at us tells us that they intend to construct a better house?
What can I say, our residential area in this part of Dehradun comes with a package of an amazing and beautiful locality, but also to those who do not realise the slope of the land and build their roads and houses without proper planning face monsoons brimming over with hassles. What hassles to such a lovely weather you might ask. Well, this refers to the rain water unable to exit the house itself!!!! (Well, don’t worry, we of course do not face such issues).Now would you imagine, instead of raising the level of the road or trying to play around with the slope of the land and the water table, investing in a proper drainage for the rain water to exit would be a wise decision on anyone’s part. But no..... probably constructing a new house that is raised high is the better option. I wonder... few thousand bucks versus lakhs of rupees...????
The reasoning doesn’t end here. Over the period of the last few months we have been silent observers to the laying of the foundation. I was surprised to see that their floor starts where the top of my window overlooking their plot ends!!! That high! I know I have heard of 5 year plans of the government, students themselves have plans for the next couple of years.... but this!!!!!!!..... I am sure for the next 50-100 years this house shall be on the highest platform in this entire colony!!
Cheers to the future... why didn’t I think of something like this (chuckling)!!!
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