Empty Plate...

Sitting by the window of my bedroom on a cool Friday evening with a cup of tea and cookies, I was mesmerised by the cool weather and the taste of the tea. It’s a wonderful spring evening, with fresh cool air and joyful green trees and spongy lawns. The choc chip cookies were so lovely and even lovelier is the plate on which its kept on my table. its a whitish plate with red polka dotted design and the dark

brown cookies make the plate look even lovelier.

That thought of cookies making the plate look lovelier made me to yearn of a soul’s company. I thought perhaps my life is very beautiful, just like the porcelain plate.

But I don’t really appreciate its beauty because I don’t have the right cookies (people) in it. My life plate is of a unique design unlike none and its big enough to accomodate anyone. I still couldn’t figure out why there were no cookies in it.

Then I started to recollect as when and how I purchased my red polka dotted porcelain plate.I remember, I was shopping for a winter jacket at a retailer. I was browsing around when this plate caught my eye. It looked so elegant and simple and yet powerful enough to hold my gaze. I checked it out and was wondering if I could actually keep this lovely plate without breaking it or scratching it. Then I bought the plate thinking that I will not use the plate for anything, but just keep it in the cupboard as a decoration.

Time passed and the sight of the lovely plate became so ordinary and I no longer bothered to even look at it. It got dusty and pale. Then one fine day, when I was chucking out all the old and broken stuffs out of the house (and also my life), I remembered about the plate and took it out of the cupboard. I dusted it and gave it a nice wash and dried it. It began to shine again.

After few weeks, I finally used the plate for the first time, to have the cookies while drinking tea. The plate looked beautiful with the cookies. The cookies tasted even better from that plate.

When I finished eating the cookies, I noticed there were few scratches on the plate.

But when I used the plate another time to have cookies, it again looked marvellous, although it had few scratches. It looked better than when it was new and unused.

I thought my life is more like the plate. I was afraid to let people into my life, fearing that they may scratch, break or wear it down. My life plate is shiny and big, but it’s empty and felt dull. Cookies will scratch or stain the plate, but a plate with cookies is more beautiful than an empty golden plate.

My heart is now open for any one to enter my life. I want my plate to be with cookies and the scratches and stains they leave behind. I want people to decorate my life plate and make it beautiful and make me realise its beauty.

I am open; you can enter without knocking....

Wait?

“Learn to labor and wait” is what H.W. Longfellow has stressed in his poem “A Psalm of life”. Labor comes first. No doubt we should work like a horse to achieve something fruitful or something which we desire. We have to undergo few/many disappointments in the quest to our goal. We plan a lot and execute a few and move a little towards our goals each day. Our journey may have tough paths like swampy forests, dry deserts etc. 

Of course every now and then we might see some mirage of our goals. So we work with the intention of achieving something. Now comes the second part “Wait”. How long one should wait? For a day? a week?  A month? A year? Or should we keep waiting till eternity? That’s the biggest decision we might have to take. We shouldn’t wait too long and let other opportunities pass by us. Also we shouldn’t be too impatient to lose the results of our own hard work. 

Abraham Lincoln has said that “Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle”. So the near perfect scenario would be not to dwell on past glory or work, but rather make progressive move which would fetch sweeter rewards. Every second in life is to be cherished. As Mark Twain says :  “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

You will never walk alone...

Life is beautiful. Well, thats what  many people say when they  look back on their past.A beautiful life may not be a easy or happy life. Beauty of life lies in how gracefully we deal happiness and adversity. Every one are hit hard and go through toughest times of their life at some stage. But working through and coming out of the toughest times in our lives become the most beautiful experience when we look back.

Sometimes we feel lonely when are facing a tough situation.We feel hurt and helpless. The fact is we are never alone. There is always something or someone who will be with us during the tough times and serve as a source of inspiration/encouragement. It could be a living or non living thing which gives you company during tough times. It could be an object just like how a volley ball becomes the best companion for Tom Hanks in the movie "Cast Away". Or it could be like Morgan Freeman's friendship with Tim Robbins in the movie "Shawshank Redemption".  People say that these things happen only in movies.Actually strange things happen in life as well and when your mind cries out for an answer, it always gets it.

The only thing we have to realise is not to lose hope at any stage in life. As Tom Hanks says in "Cast Away" , "I have to keep breathing.Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?".

Arrabiato!!

I am born here for a reason not known to me
every time i try hard to find why
life throws a challenge too tough for me
but i always rise up and give it my best try.

I  always used to see more thorns than roses
in the garden of my life
Others seem to have more flowers for their vases
and not a burden in their life.

I know the world owes me nothing
and doesnt care even if I cry
Every time I try to do something
it makes my soul dry.

I have come a long way from where I started
trudging  along in a path of my own
I just  rest for a while  if I feel exhausted
but never give up even if I am alone.

I will attain what I really want for sure
and quench the thirst of my soul
Even if I fail a million times before
Until I die;I will fight for my goal