While driving through the Point Reyes, CA, I was so amazed by the simple beauty of the nature, somehow, I felt something which I never felt in years....I was able to appreciate the beauty around me. A guilt and remorse free heart...It was so beautiful. A flying bird, the cows in the meadows, the solitude, the waves in the Pacific bay, suddenly all of it meant something bigger to me...bigger than my job, the every day fight and all the little or big hardships I had in my life. What happened to me that changed my whole view of the world. Self- actualization, enlightment....??
I was looking out of the car window and thinking, why is it that as we grow older we loose that childish enthusiasm, the alacrity...the tranquility...Is it because, as we grow older, the probability of coming across good parts of life (like finding first job, first love, etc) lessens? A person starts looking at the same highly coveted job he achieved through his hard work as burden, the same love in life disappears...and we call it reality. We talk big, we talk about life in terms of colors...black and white,where gray prevalently takes over most part of our life. Is it so difficult to come out of gray and look around the most beautiful other colors in life? I think we live in a round world, if you do good to someone, it comes back to you, the form may be different, may be be unrecognizable even...but it comes. I will be 25 next month, when I ponder over the years I have lived, I wonder how much I have changed and how much inhibitions I have now. I used to love riding on roller coaster, now I barely go on merry go round...I remember I saw this movie Final Destination, after that I always have fear, some screw is going to get broken...the ride will fall apart and so on....But now I really wonder all those are nothing but excuses. The fear to be exposed to bad we see everyday around us..on Tv, news papers, etc...But have we ever thought are we not part of that bad? Every day in some or the other way we become mean to someone else knowingly or unknowingly. If I throw the food because I did not like it, that time am I not doing bad by taking extra myself instead of giving it to someone in need? A thought really worth considering... We can really change the world only if we change..... So, Be kind and be loving...that's the ultimate key to happiness and love!
XOXO,
Aditi.
XOXO,
Aditi.
