To Where the Sun Sets ...
I have always felt this, as they say, in my bones that there is more to life than meets the eye. It has been like an uneasiness that always travels with me, in my mind, in my thoughts- like a shadow, a feeling you can’t shrug off. A truth that cannot be denied.
Ever wondered why it is sunny one day and rains the next? Why the gently flowing breeze and the slightly cloudy sky make your heart sing one day and the gloomy weather makes you want to cry the very next? Doesn’t everything in nature talk of the impermanence of life?
On a still clear day as you sit by the poolside you can see your reflection clearly in the water. Suddenly a stone comes from nowhere and causes the water to ripple erasing your reflection completely. Moments are like these images, thousands of them that flit across the radar of what we call life.
Seen a setting sun. Like poetry captured and frozen in one moment. Horizon is where the sun and the earth meet. Try walking toward it. The more you come nearer to it the farther it seems to go away from you. Life and all things around us are like these elements of nature that tell us subtly, everyday ,that we are living in a make belief world , and world that is grounded in only one truth – that of impermanence .
We are always grasping at things which are inherently ungraspable and the more we try to grasp them the more we are drawn towards them , the more we want to attain them becoming one whose wants know no end , always seeking and wanting a false happiness . A happiness which has no feet.
At this point I feel the need to make a bold statement. One may feel that it is harshly put too. But if one were to think of it then the only thing that is indeed permanent in life is Death. Everything in life has a relative veracity. Everyone has their own truths! But none can deny that absolute eventuality, the surety and intensity of which is all pervasive and omnipresent. It is a truth; it is the only truth of existence.
And if it is the truth of our existence then what are we doing about it? Our life revolves around our wants, our world as we desire it .Instant gratification are our truths which make us dissatisfied at the core.
We are bothered with only what we can perceive with our 5 senses and running to assuage them .We don’t look behind the curtain, what is there that lies at the end of the journey, where are we truly headed and if we are going somewhere what are we supposed to gather on the way to be prepared for that ultimate truth, for the destination!
Shouldn’t we start looking beyond tomorrow??
Ever wondered why it is sunny one day and rains the next? Why the gently flowing breeze and the slightly cloudy sky make your heart sing one day and the gloomy weather makes you want to cry the very next? Doesn’t everything in nature talk of the impermanence of life?
On a still clear day as you sit by the poolside you can see your reflection clearly in the water. Suddenly a stone comes from nowhere and causes the water to ripple erasing your reflection completely. Moments are like these images, thousands of them that flit across the radar of what we call life.
Seen a setting sun. Like poetry captured and frozen in one moment. Horizon is where the sun and the earth meet. Try walking toward it. The more you come nearer to it the farther it seems to go away from you. Life and all things around us are like these elements of nature that tell us subtly, everyday ,that we are living in a make belief world , and world that is grounded in only one truth – that of impermanence .
We are always grasping at things which are inherently ungraspable and the more we try to grasp them the more we are drawn towards them , the more we want to attain them becoming one whose wants know no end , always seeking and wanting a false happiness . A happiness which has no feet.
At this point I feel the need to make a bold statement. One may feel that it is harshly put too. But if one were to think of it then the only thing that is indeed permanent in life is Death. Everything in life has a relative veracity. Everyone has their own truths! But none can deny that absolute eventuality, the surety and intensity of which is all pervasive and omnipresent. It is a truth; it is the only truth of existence.
And if it is the truth of our existence then what are we doing about it? Our life revolves around our wants, our world as we desire it .Instant gratification are our truths which make us dissatisfied at the core.
We are bothered with only what we can perceive with our 5 senses and running to assuage them .We don’t look behind the curtain, what is there that lies at the end of the journey, where are we truly headed and if we are going somewhere what are we supposed to gather on the way to be prepared for that ultimate truth, for the destination!
Shouldn’t we start looking beyond tomorrow??
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