Standing by the window, looking at the immensely beautiful
scene, the rain shower has given birth to, listening to the melodies of nature,
allowing soft breeze to embrace my face and the mist blended in the atmosphere
to grab the wholesome attention of my eyes, my heart experiences a blissful
realization, realization born out of the knowledge that life exists in
‘moments’. Looking up at the delightful, cloudy sky, I realize my heart and
mind are living in the present, ‘this’ moment...images of past and of future
lay distant, the present moment is all that matters. And as I live in these
'moments', life glides by as a gift.
The dawning of this knowledge has left me with a question. Why
we restrict our joy and peacefulness to only a few moments of our life, when
Mother Nature smiles on us or moments of achievements? Why we fail to derive
pleasure out of realizing the importance of ‘this (present) moment' which will
eventually fly by within nano seconds? We taste calmness and fulfillment when
nature shows us its majestic beauty in full swing, because those moments alone capture
our sights and imagination. The beauty of nature becomes our reason to
celebrate. Are there not reasons in our everyday life, in the zillions of meant
to be unordinary moments that we let pass by ordinarily, with magnitudes of
unpaid attention? If we live life by the knowledge that it is a structure built
on 'moments', and if we decide to concentrate our undivided attention to the
moment which sees us living in it, i.e., the present, we would
realize that at any given point of time, life would smile on us with hundreds
of reasons to make us happy. Every day we wake up, the fact that we have still
got our eyes,ears,nose,face,hands,legs all in perfect shape, we still have our
parents to cherish for, our siblings,friends,grandparents ,fails to catch our
attention ,because all life finds us doing is lamenting over the bad day, over
the past unfulfilled relationships, over the test marks that went too down and
over the heat ,sun casts on us.
If one is determined to live life, by living the moments that
eventually form life, life will definitely give him umpteen reasons to be
grateful about, the only thing our life asks for in return is to realize the
potential each of its moments embodies within itself, the potential of bringing
happiness to us, the potential of extending our help to others, the potential
of bringing a smile to someone else’s face and most importantly the
potential of changing our life forever.
DIVYA SANGHVI
VIT UNIVERSITY,CHENNAI
