Learn Thy Lessons.........

She opens her window and stares at the pearls that sparkle in the sky. They are ‘beautiful’ – and she would not call them anything else because there is no other word that can best describe them. The perfect silence is filled up by the rhythm of the breeze that doesn’t make it imperfect in any way. And , not far away are the waves touching the shore, kissing it – gently at times and sometimes passionately.

She is always content looking at the sky, the stars, their crescent companion, the ocean, the waves, the seashells, the sunsets. And for her, this is the epitome of an eternal bliss and it makes her life ‘beautiful’ – and she would not call it anything else because there is no other word that can best describe it.

The consciousness that she wakes up into takes her closer to the peaceful sound of the waves that reverberated in her ears throughout the night. She faces the ocean now – the mighty and the magnanimous. What lies beneath; what lies beyond - The beauty beholds her and the mystery enthralls her. She places her feet forward – there is a surge to explore and she takes a plunge.

The beautiful isn’t just so; it is bold too and she, an amateur swimmer, grapples with it.
It thwarts her moves, picks her up and mercilessly throws her back to the shore. The water splashes across her face; she is forced to retreat. She sits there aghast at what the nature had to offer her.

And in 'the moment' that changes life sometimes, she learns her lessons....

One - the journey forward isn’t always the way you perceive it to be. There are two ways to it – each directly converse to the other. One, from silence to realization of the conscious to the exploration – the path for explorers - the modern world calls it ‘technical’. The other, from exploring the world and all that constitutes it to the realization of the conscious to the perfect silence – The path for dreamers - the modern world calls it ‘philosophical’.
Both might lead to contentment. You only need to be AWARE of the one meant for you; the one that defines your whole. And then nothing can obstruct your path.

Two - Once you are aware, be thoroughly PREPARED; for the lesser prepared are never spared.

And the most important one – the one that is ‘beautiful’ must be termed so because there is no other word that can best describe it :-)

* The irony here is that real life experiences that inspired me to type this post in the ‘latter’ way were purely ‘former’ in nature *