Why and how am I connected?

Sunset:


I was sitting today in the cafeteria in one of the farthest corner and from where the sunset was so clearly visible. I was enjoying the sky changing its color every moment and as time just passed by the sun disappears leaving the last traces of rays captured in some of the wandering clouds...

The sun has now set leaving me only with memories once again; I wondered what is it that connects me so deeply with a sunset that everything else around me seems so much immaterial and unimportant. I just freeze at that moment, my eyes sometimes are filled with tears and sometimes my lips adorn a smile. That’s a time when I am transfixed and completely surrendered in front of the beauty of the nature. I have been watching so many sunsets.... But there is some intriguing quality in it that binds me every time I happen to see it.


And then the world awakes as I hear a far cry from one of my friend or the person seated right next to me – “Tea break is over, shall we go?” And during those times, I always think when poetry should flow into your ears; it’s only a reminder call to go back to work is given to me…. What an anticlimax?


Rain:


Do I always enjoy it? Not exactly, but I love it most of the times, except those days when it is raining the whole day. Rain is just the moment you want to run to your terrace and drench yourself as the initial droplets fall from the sky. It’s a momentary satisfaction of feeling cleansed and pure from both inside and outside.


I have had many rain drenched walks in my life. But one of them was especially beautiful one that I can recall. I was on my way back from office, and to reach the bus stop I had to actually walk a twenty minutes path. The path was strewn with bushes around them and only cyclists or pedestrians were on that path. There was also a road running parallel to that and it was one of the highways of one of the European cities. As I left my office the sun was still adorning the sky and hence I was without any of my rain gear. It was one of the days in the last leg of the summer period there. I started walking that path and suddenly the rain started. There were no place to take shelter and I had to walk. I was actually enjoying the rain thoroughly and now I had reached the bus stop, the bus was late and then suddenly the sun comes out and in its full ferocity, my clothes are half dried by the time the bus comes.

What was so remarkable was the fact that there was no one in the whole path towards bus stop and neither at the bus stop. I was least conscious of my wet dress and least concerned what people wondered about me. Just gave into the urge to be drenched and feel the water trickling down your skin and hands …….


Rainbow:

Spotting a rainbow is sometimes the WOW moment in my life, simply because it’s so rare that I get to see them. I have seen most of them while I was in one of the European city and from my apartment window.


The sheer sight of so many colors distributed on the clear blue sky and the way it originates from one horizon and ends on the other side of it is a visual treat for a nature lover.


The color just brightens up my day and makes me feel that life is so BEAUTIFUL.
In its diversity, it holds such a plain fact of coexistence. There is a story also attached with this one, one of those days of my stay away from my family I find myself woken up quite early in the morning on a Weekend. I help myself with a cup of coffee and open the windows of my apartment to have the look at the hill view. As I open the window shutters, I could see the light appearance of the rainbow in the sky, and just as it starts making its appearance more clear, I dial up one of my colleague’s number and wake him up and tell him to see the rainbow in the sky. And he so sweetly thanks me for letting him know about it. Only after the sky phenomenon is over, do I realize that I woke him up on a weekend. But there was no point apologizing as the harm of disturbing someone’s sleep is already done.


Endless list:
There are many more things that I connect to… Like Babies, Butterflies, Flowers, Fountains, Waterfalls, Riverbed, Lakeside, Nest of Birds, Hills, Mountains, etc…. all nature’s magnificent, beautiful creations, perhaps that they cannot be described in mere words. It’s the feelings that they render to your heart and the thoughts they put in your mind and cleansing and pure feeling that they give to your soul is something far more greater than anything else around you.


I feel like baby in front of these, and just want to be embraced in its serenity.
So I won’t analyze any more why and how do I connect? I would just give myself completely to that moment and treasure its memories in the locker of my heart….