A couple of things that happened in my recent past left me stirred. A montage of unruly images kept hurling before my eyes as if to haunt me or assassinate my existence with the horrific realities. I was scared and I was freaked out. None of them I wanted to talk to spoke to me at that time. I was left alone in a dungeon of dark thoughts. I was perplexed with my condition. I wanted to run away and cry my heart out.
Where else would I go? To my friend. . ‘The Sea.’
I sat in my solitude looking at the sea with tears in my eyes. I concentrated on the silence. From within this silence the waves of the sea started speaking to me. We had a long conversation and here is the gist of those conversations;
Sea (s) and Me [m]
S: what are you doing in my shore crying and alone?
M: I am not sure, I am just confused and worried
S: about what? What are you worried about?
M: the things that have happened to me in the recent past; I don’t know what to make out of them?
S: what do you want to make out of those incidents?
M: I am not sure! I just don’t know what I want to make out of those things!
S: why are you upset then? What is it that you want?
M: I don’t want anything! Having al that I have is making me un happy
S: if you don’t want anything in reality, then you would be laughing with joy .. . it is because you want something that you are actually unhappy!
M: is it wrong to have desires?
S: no . . it is not bad to have desires . . . .but let the desires be desires and reality be reality
M: what is the reality?
S: ok! Let me explain! Do you see how all these people have arrived at my shore in the evening?
M: yes . . . . They want to view the sunset!
S: well it is their desire that they want to experience the beauty of sunset, the cascading interplay of colors and to feel the bliss and warmth of that sunset
M: yes
S: but their desire is devoid of the truth that the sun is never going to set . . . and my waters and the sky are never going to turn red.
Its just an illusion planed by nature
M: but if it gives them happiness. It is good!
S: yes, but it is momentary happiness. If they continue to feel the same bliss from me in the darkness of the night, in the shuddering wind storms and during high tide also, then theis desires are a worthy complement to my existence.
M: what are you trying to say?
S: if people desire your company only to fulfill their emptiness and do not stand by you when you are empty; they actually are encouraging you to feel a delusional bliss.
Remember that you and I are the same. Our life is nothing but a collection of waves sometimes high tide and sometimes low. We shimmer in the presence of brightness and turn melancholic during darkness. We don’t live for people who want to see a sunset and forget the reality behind it. We both share unknown depths that house the scariest abyss and the most precious of pearls. We are wavy on the outside but tormented from within. Both of us are unaware why we exist and what is our purpose. Both of us bleed in pain and converse in silence. Both of us are here to live till destiny pushes us away. Both of us are one.. Me and you. . .
Where else would I go? To my friend. . ‘The Sea.’
I sat in my solitude looking at the sea with tears in my eyes. I concentrated on the silence. From within this silence the waves of the sea started speaking to me. We had a long conversation and here is the gist of those conversations;
Sea (s) and Me [m]
S: what are you doing in my shore crying and alone?
M: I am not sure, I am just confused and worried
S: about what? What are you worried about?
M: the things that have happened to me in the recent past; I don’t know what to make out of them?
S: what do you want to make out of those incidents?
M: I am not sure! I just don’t know what I want to make out of those things!
S: why are you upset then? What is it that you want?
M: I don’t want anything! Having al that I have is making me un happy
S: if you don’t want anything in reality, then you would be laughing with joy .. . it is because you want something that you are actually unhappy!
M: is it wrong to have desires?
S: no . . it is not bad to have desires . . . .but let the desires be desires and reality be reality
M: what is the reality?
S: ok! Let me explain! Do you see how all these people have arrived at my shore in the evening?
M: yes . . . . They want to view the sunset!
S: well it is their desire that they want to experience the beauty of sunset, the cascading interplay of colors and to feel the bliss and warmth of that sunset
M: yes
S: but their desire is devoid of the truth that the sun is never going to set . . . and my waters and the sky are never going to turn red.
Its just an illusion planed by nature
M: but if it gives them happiness. It is good!
S: yes, but it is momentary happiness. If they continue to feel the same bliss from me in the darkness of the night, in the shuddering wind storms and during high tide also, then theis desires are a worthy complement to my existence.
M: what are you trying to say?
S: if people desire your company only to fulfill their emptiness and do not stand by you when you are empty; they actually are encouraging you to feel a delusional bliss.
Remember that you and I are the same. Our life is nothing but a collection of waves sometimes high tide and sometimes low. We shimmer in the presence of brightness and turn melancholic during darkness. We don’t live for people who want to see a sunset and forget the reality behind it. We both share unknown depths that house the scariest abyss and the most precious of pearls. We are wavy on the outside but tormented from within. Both of us are unaware why we exist and what is our purpose. Both of us bleed in pain and converse in silence. Both of us are here to live till destiny pushes us away. Both of us are one.. Me and you. . .
