All day long yesterday... I thought a lot......
somewhere something was missing....
having a good family, good friends a long list of admirers too.....
enough for a girl to have smiles all day i guess...
but what is it that's missing then...?
a sense of irritation that fills the mind time and again...
and there it is... joy..
joy is missing
but what joy are we all after..?
a good job?
a big car..? Porsche?
tab?
a new sea side flat..?
imagine the one who has all of these and even much more?
imagine if you get it all in an instant or by hard work day in and out..?
now?
you feel happier?
okay now may be getting married to a dream girl/boy solves it...
now happy?
years past the marriage , are you now equally happy, joyful? as the very first day you got him/her?
then what is it?
isnt this the joy of living that we are missing each day...
we all are grappling with the same kind of stagnation somewhere..
somewhere walking the path of life in search of happiness we turn our ways from it..
our happiness depends, and majorly depends on material things..
things that are today or Tomorrow perishable....
ha ha , i remember that advertisement too... where the wife is acquainting the husband about the neighbor's new car.... it goes like...
oh my god, Mr., verma has got a new caaaaaaaaaaarrrrrr... and all we have, is a car...
funny, yet a reality these days.. a sad one though ...
we compare, we envy , we run for money...
in the name of achieving big we only become a show off....
rather than accomplishing something that is useful for at least a single person other than that one called "me".
........
Hmmm... , so is this joy track-able somewhere..... ?
can we install it from somewhere.... ?
imagine.... how do you feel?
when after days of lazying out doing meaningless work or being over busy in the offices and college assignments, one afternoon standing in the balcony or in the local train or bus window, the ever so bright sun looks at us and that light somehow makes us feel that i must be looking so beautiful right now, the sun must be making my eyes look bright and beautiful right now... especially girls ....
we suddenly feel so young... that joy , you cant buy it.... can you..... ?
do we ever thank the wholesome mighty, for that 1 beautiful ray of beauty?
have ever tried listening to the beautiful birds chirp near the blue sky?
haven't we forgotten the parks nearby home ...?
do you remember when you last thanked mum for such a nice food ... she might have got up early to do that... isn't it?
do we thank dad for being compassionate enough for making money... or otherwise if they dont do such things for us... do we have the guts to still be thankful to them as they brought us life.....
can we thank people for no reason , our gratitude also demands reason.....
what people are we ? or how have we all become...?
we reason out everything... to be able to believe something we need proofs.... we do so even for the things that we should not and thereby keep on hurting so many people around us......
try it as an experiment for once now in ur life... stand in front of the rays of the sun and feel the good probably the best of the morning.... listen to the nature's sound... the birds... of different kinds .. mingled with the flows of water.....
the calm of the morning sky.... try and appreciate the morning clouds... white forging ahead like a new start
feel it by heart.... walk around try locating small young children... listen to their innocence
feel the joy.......
the ever lasting joy of life..
coming straight from.. the ever lasting joy of appreciation...................
concluding on the text.....
I remind a few famous lines of this great man ;
lets see what he says................. :
Time is the substance I am made of;
Time is the river which sweeps me along, but I am the river;
It is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger;
It is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire;
The world unfortunately is real, I unfortunately, am Borges.
- Jorge Luis Borges
I would now take the leave...... leaving with an appreciating thought that you have just created along with me.... this is me... your crunch... signing off for today...
with a promise to write very soon...... :)
