RELISH BEING YOURSELF!!

YOU ARE THE BLESSED ONE

How do you do? I am fine, thank you. Well this is how we have been taught to answer such questions pertaining to the inquiry about our health – mental or physical – alike. Well but what about the moments when one is feeling low as hell? Still the social norms would demand decent, well-type replies. Ok granted. Hey but, hold on. What about the times when you are feeling nice and great? Is it still unacceptable to admit it? To shout at the top of your voice and claim your share of feeling good, feeling better than just fine? Is it?

Well maybe people have not deliberated upon changing the fine to great because probably they have stopped feeling that way. Ah yes, this is the reason? This actually is. One comes across souls in human bodies dragging themselves through the journey called life that seems to be thrust upon them. It seems a compulsion than a choice. Is the scene really so bad? Do we have to treat life as just fine actually? I am amazed at times to see how rare a disease is happiness. When we have so much all around us to feel blessed with how do we fail to notice it? The nature abounds in all its beauty. If you go for a morning walk, the moist grass blades welcome you; the dew-wet flower petals swing happily in the morning breeze to greet you. The daybreak presents a sight that makes one wonder wao, all this magnificent show has been put up for me! The spectacle of a sunset in the evenings is no less intriguing. And when you have chance to witness the mountains or the wilderness during vacations trips you can not help wondering how blessed you are to be a part of all this beautiful opera.

Come on, all this always existed, the hard core pessimist in you is arguing- So what is so special to feel special about it? So you are craving for more reasons to be proved blessed. Don’t worry. I have innumerable ones. The nature seems to be at your feet, go to the wild, the country or the resorts where the brooks and the hills are man made, but well this does not make you happy. Maybe the huge concrete buildings do. The shopping malls, the glass office buildings, the accelerators, the eating joints that are so well architected and carved out marvelously to make man feel like a God. You are lucky to get a chance to pamper yourself in such environment and some one has been fortunate to have imagined and constructed them. Like Kira says it is so good that it appears man made. Or as Andrei remarks it is so well made it appears natural! So it is unto you to feel gifted to see anything that attracts you.

OK now let me take resort to the love and the attention you get. Your friends, siblings, parents, spouse, sons and daughters, colleagues, all make it a point to wish you on your birthday which mind you, is no achievement of yours. It is bound to occur year after year,still they make you feel special with surprise parties, gifts, phone calls, mails, messages, flower deliveries and even cooking your favourite dishes. WAO. Ah! You stubborn soul, you still see nothing special! Never mind. Remember the day you were feeling low and the vegetable vendor just smiled at you, and the evening you were cribbing about a bad haircut and a rag picker passed by with dirty hair and torn clothes. You sure thanked your stars, didn’t you?

Come on admit it now, from the morning sun that rises to greet you irrespective of whether you deserve it or not after your last day’s lazy activities to the cute moon that smiles at you, from the natural beauty to the man made constructions, from smiles by strangers to cheer up sessions by loved ones, from the beautiful mirror you have in your room to the smart watch you are wearing, you sure are blessed to have all this. And most blessed you are that you got a chance to read this case put up by me. Isn’t it? And now that you agree, may you always be blessed to realize your blessings. Ameen!