Today I saw a dew drop on the thulasi plant placed outside my house. I was amazed to see its beauty and realised how I missed seeing the beauty around me.
Instantly I felt connected to that dew drop which was quivering as the leaf on which it had placed itself was dancing in the soft morning breeze!
As the sun rose, I felt the dew drop became aware of its surroundings. Sitting on the leaf, catching the sunlight and throwing it back out.
Ah, I wish I were a dew drop.
The soft breeze was in a playful mood though and naughtly began to shake my thulasi plant, tipping the leaf. I could feel the terror gripping the dew drop as gravity pulled it towards the edge of the leaf... towards the unknown.
Why? Why was this happening? Things were comfortable. Things were safe. Why did they have to change? Why? Why? Why did my life have to change? Why was pushed towards uncertainty like the dew drop which had by now reached the tip of the leaf.
The dew drop...I could feel was terrified like me, quiet sure that it would be smashed into a thousand pieces once it falls down...like how I too had felt and was sure that this was the end.
The day had only just begun and the end had come so quickly...jus like my life which had just begun and now was turning meaningless with illness and disabilities.
It seemed so unfair. It seemed so meaningless.
The dew drop tried desperately to do whatever it could to cling to the leaf, but it was no use...I knew no point clinging to things my past!
Finally, the dew drop let go, surrendering to the pull of gravity. Down, down..down it fell. Below it saw a reflection of itself seemed to be coming up to meet the dew drop. Closer and closer they came together until finally...
And then the fear transformed into deep joy as the tiny dew drop merged with the vastness that was the puddle of water...made of thousands of such dew drops! Now the dew drop was no more, but it was not destroyed.
It had become one with the whole...like me!
Instantly I felt connected to that dew drop which was quivering as the leaf on which it had placed itself was dancing in the soft morning breeze!
As the sun rose, I felt the dew drop became aware of its surroundings. Sitting on the leaf, catching the sunlight and throwing it back out.
Ah, I wish I were a dew drop.
The soft breeze was in a playful mood though and naughtly began to shake my thulasi plant, tipping the leaf. I could feel the terror gripping the dew drop as gravity pulled it towards the edge of the leaf... towards the unknown.
Why? Why was this happening? Things were comfortable. Things were safe. Why did they have to change? Why? Why? Why did my life have to change? Why was pushed towards uncertainty like the dew drop which had by now reached the tip of the leaf.
The dew drop...I could feel was terrified like me, quiet sure that it would be smashed into a thousand pieces once it falls down...like how I too had felt and was sure that this was the end.
The day had only just begun and the end had come so quickly...jus like my life which had just begun and now was turning meaningless with illness and disabilities.
It seemed so unfair. It seemed so meaningless.
The dew drop tried desperately to do whatever it could to cling to the leaf, but it was no use...I knew no point clinging to things my past!
Finally, the dew drop let go, surrendering to the pull of gravity. Down, down..down it fell. Below it saw a reflection of itself seemed to be coming up to meet the dew drop. Closer and closer they came together until finally...
And then the fear transformed into deep joy as the tiny dew drop merged with the vastness that was the puddle of water...made of thousands of such dew drops! Now the dew drop was no more, but it was not destroyed.
It had become one with the whole...like me!
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