My mother has not traveled much, but she is a very curious person like me. She likes to know how the people in other countries think, talk, eat, behave, and live. One of the questions she often asks me is whether there are villages, rice farms, and cattle in Australia and America. “I will tell you when I go to those countries.” I joke with her.
I bought and paid for the internet for a whole year at my home, and she often watches videos on YouTube and TikTok; when I call her every night before going to bed, she talks and asks me about the videos she watches.
“Gore Haru Pani Gai Charau Chan Ra? Whites also herd the cows?”
“Yes, why Mom?”
“I watched the video on the internet and saw a girl having cows a lot.”
I laugh.
I type 'Village life in Wales” on YouTube and open the video. We watch it for an hour together and talk about the video. Then I open the village life in Ireland and Poland. We watch one after the other videos, and my mother gets surprised.
When I open the old and traditional Irish song of the dark era when the imported Irish monk used to live in the stone igloo, she says, “They sound like the Horiya.”
I laugh.
Just like my mother, I also like to watch and listen to the sounds of village life in England, Wales, Ireland, and Poland every time I write a story, diary, or novel for practice. They bring so much peace to my mind that I can sit alone and write for an hour without having any human interaction, and the words, sentences, and story flow non-stop.
Today I woke up at 3 a.m. and wrote three chapters for the ebook I am writing now called “Dear Life.” It is sort of a diary, but of course fictional characters. I was shocked at first, but then I realized that I love nature, and even these YouTube videos of the village lives bring so much calmness and peace to my mind.
Not only me but also many English writers used to spend time in nature before writing stories, poems, and prose. William Wordsworth was a romantic poet, and he was famous for his long walks through the Lake District, where he found inspiration for his nature-themed poetry. He often walked with his sister Dorothy and fellow poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. John Clare, Robert Luis Stevenson, Edward Thomas, and J.R.R. Tolkien also used to spend time in nature and write poems about the countryside, village lives, and influence for their philosophical musings.
Sai tells me that in the future everyone will go back to nature and farm to survive like our ancestors did. I don’t know when it will happen, but I believe that nature brings, clears, and improves the imagination powers of a child.
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