Civilized But Sad

Civilized And Hence Sad. Heard this a couple of days ago! How we have forgotten to take in the smaller joys that this life offers us. How we have forgotten to smile. How we are preoccupied with thoughts when you don’t need any. You are sitting on the banks of a river which is hissing its love to you constantly and you are sober. You are thinking why I am not doing more trips like these. You are lying down on waters rushing past your ears, but You don’t scream. You don’t scream the joy you feel inside. You smile and lie down supposedly in tranquility. No Yelp of joy. You are at the base of a mountain and you get your picture clicked. You don’t smile. You don’t smile for cameras anymore. How I wish we could be that kid again, running around naked on the same river bank. That ‘uncivilized’ village brute jumping up and down in the running river. That inebriated group causing chaos under that waterfall. We are Too Civilized to be happy. We are all civilized and sad. Sad.