“Give me some sunshine, Give me some rain,I wanna take a chance & live my dream again!“

Brighter is the day like it was yesterday and tomorrow it will be the same again like it was today.

Every day it starts with rising sun and ends up with sun set. Her ( Mother earth ) revolving around the sun giving us day and night. Day and night gives us one whole day and these whole days gives us weeks and thereafter we get months and then years which we are living. Our existence here is time bounded and irony of it is no one knows to what extent it is bounded. In a sense it is good that we don’t think about the time that we are having in our hands, we just go on spending it (I am not using the term “utilizing” here) the way we want. Abundantly, plenteously or more than enough time we have in our younger age. Remember those days, one call from friend and we are ready to go for outing no matter where and when.

Getting up, schooling, college, studying and being surrounded with friends is the ultimate worldly happiness of the life for us that time. We all have lived this life to the fullest since we have enough time, it is good in a sense that we don’t think much about the time we are spending.

Once the education is complete we catch hold of a job and tie a knot to the time and then starts juggling with the time. We all live this part of the life also to the fullest since we have no time to see how much time we have. It is good in a sense that we don’t think much about the time we are spending.

A time comes to settle in the life and then every activity fits into compartments of time, scheduling, stick to that schedule and go on and on and on hopping to get more and more to fulfill commitments of life becomes ultimate goal of life. (here the intension is to give facts of life and not to justify right and wrong ).

Then what happens to us and suddenly we realize that, “oh no I have wasted my time in doing nothing”.

Actually we are the same who we were, enjoying teenage, spending time and money, enjoying adulthood in buying & building secured future,  then what’s go wrong. Everything looks to be fair and fine yet something is pinching within. Either our expectations from our life reached to a point where nothing more remains to achieve or our feeling of , is this what I wanted in my life , is this the life for which I ran for  so many years, did I really succeed in life, is this the real happiness. At this age of life most of us start thinking on same line. May be spiritual thoughts started budding at this point of age (scientific studies can throw light on this ). This shift in thought process of finding eternal happiness creates emptiness as we don’t have any go back  and get the lost dreams  and then we say “Give me some sunshine, Give me some rain, I wanna take a chance & live my dream again!!  “

If this is the story in general, then what happens with successful people. How do they pursue their dreams without asking for a chance . Do they come from Mars or Venus . No not at all, they are one among us only. They are like us only, schooling , college and friends & community , same in all aspects. Only difference is they are very very   passionate about what they want to do in the life. The awakening point comes to their life much earlier than other human beings. There are many factors behind their success it could be in the form of parents support, their talent versus early age struggling life they have gone through. Most important part is the self-realization.

Self-realization is that state of mind where your insights are very clear & then conscious efforts being taken to fulfill any of the dream will be rewarding like striking sun shine and showering rain and there won’t be any space for taking a chance to live their dreams again.

Being successful is subjective but being satisfied is in possession of every hand so however late we realize we have to take a chance and have to live our dreams and move on creating our brighter tomorrow and at the same time have to pass on the glimpses of awareness to the generation next and help them to understand their dreams timely so that they should not missed out any chance.

March 25 , 2025

 

“ River and her banks “

 

‘ ये राते ये मौसम नदी का किनारा ये चंचल हवा ! ‘

River always denotes onscreen magnificent romance of Bollywood films of golden era. 

On screen it is so beautiful to see delightful evening , a village full of  green and few  scattered cottages and mid of the screen a river flowing across . Wow who will not fall in love of this cinematic visuals as well as imagining himself in place of hero or herself in place of heroine. Most ever promising scene of every second film of those days when “ Jay Jawan Jay Kisan “ was the nation’s greatest slogan. 

In Our traditions we treat rivers as goddesses. She flows down from her origin and through out her journey until she meets sea , she takes care of neighbouring flora and fauna. She is the example of selfless offering. Our country is entangled by many such rivers. To name a few In north we have Ganga, Yamuna & Saraswati. In east we have Bramhaputra. In west we have Narmada, Krishna , Godavari and in south we have Kaveri, Sharavati, Tungabhadra. These are just few among many others. If you see , every river has her own individuality. A mystic story behind her presence on this earth. She carries all emotions those every woman has. When she starts flowing from her origin she is like giggling small girl dancing around running so fast, slowly when she comes down to a plateau  she start swirling around like beautiful adolescent singing song for someone who is yet far away waiting to greet her.  Slowly she becomes wider encompasses nearby area , make it affluent in all aspects be it plantation, be it farming & agricultural, be it animal husbandry etc. it’s like now she has almost done with her duties and ready to surrender herself in arms of her beloved and flow together.

What she teaches us. Now the title comes in  the picture. River  always flows between two of her riverbanks. Yes you are correct. Although she has abundant to give she neither overdo nor overlook . She follows her same path ages and ages . What kind of discipline she shows. It’s really difficult to do and redo the same things over a period with same positive energy and vibrantly and consistently. Shall we not bow down and touches her feet like we do to our mother. 

So next time whenever you go any riverside just realm yourself , bow down and try to reassure yourself of being like River and her banks.

March 6th, 2025