Never hurry

Diary entry by my father made on 6.6.2002

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Never hurry and hasten in anything

Remember in the impetuosity of my youth

talking to a man advanced in years who

was planting oak trees. I said to

him very gently that the planting of oak

trees by a man advanced in years seems

to be rather imaginative.

The old man seized the point at once

and said to me "you feel that I shall 

never enjoy the shade? I have the

imagination and I know what that

shade will be. I have laid my trees

in certain lines. I know that I cannot

expect more than to see them beyond

a shrub

but with me rests the conception of 

the shade and the glory

Jaswant Singh Matharu

This blog is dedicated to the memory of my dear father Jaswant Singh Matharu.

In his twilight years he maintained diaries which are a glimpse into his sensitive soul.

I share the pages of one of his diaries here.