That was one of the greatest days of my life. I was initially very reluctant for this Rishikesh trip. It took a lot of convincing -Wait! Should I call it emotional blackmail???- from friends for me to join them. Rafting and diving fearlessly in the pristine waters of the holy Ganges was fun indeed. But the trip meant more than that. It was about refreshing our memories, enjoying our camaraderie. And at the end of the day, I was all nostalgic and thinking whether these moments will come again in my life???
Now I know I was wrong to expect exactly the same moments back in my life. For life isn’t about repeating the things already happened, no matter how wonderful they are. It is all about living a new moment, new life every day. There will be some golden moments in our lives. But we have to enjoy them whole-heartedly, without any expectations. We shouldn’t ruin them by hoping to repeat them. If this day is going to come back in my life again, will it remain special? Life isn’t about repeating special moments but it is about creating new moments and new stories.
Imagine the moment full of divine fragrance just before it starts raining. Everything changes in a heartbeat. Life is made up those precious fleeting gifts called moments. We must become that moment, forgetting everything we have experienced before or will be experiencing later. But we pay too much attention to the grand themes and too little to those fleeting moments. And then after that moment goes flying, we hope to catch them back again. We often ruin wonderful moments by needlessly worrying about past or future. Have you ever seen a baby cry? It cries, cries, cries and minutes later it is in laughter again! Because the baby never thinks of the past or the future, it just enjoys the present moment. Maybe that’s a great lesson to learn from a baby to cherish the present moment innocently.
And what can be called as an icing on the cake, after that trip to Rishikesh, I had one of the best journeys back home and went on to attend a fantastic wedding, that of my cousin. And both of these events had their own charm. They were not like the trip but that’s why they were great. Sometimes things have to fall apart to make way for better things. You can’t just run back to past just because it is familiar.
The beauty of the moment is that it is fleeting. And it is fleeting because it is being chased by another moment, another beautiful moment. It is this elusive and transient nature of moments that make them so adorable…
Now I know I was wrong to expect exactly the same moments back in my life. For life isn’t about repeating the things already happened, no matter how wonderful they are. It is all about living a new moment, new life every day. There will be some golden moments in our lives. But we have to enjoy them whole-heartedly, without any expectations. We shouldn’t ruin them by hoping to repeat them. If this day is going to come back in my life again, will it remain special? Life isn’t about repeating special moments but it is about creating new moments and new stories.
Imagine the moment full of divine fragrance just before it starts raining. Everything changes in a heartbeat. Life is made up those precious fleeting gifts called moments. We must become that moment, forgetting everything we have experienced before or will be experiencing later. But we pay too much attention to the grand themes and too little to those fleeting moments. And then after that moment goes flying, we hope to catch them back again. We often ruin wonderful moments by needlessly worrying about past or future. Have you ever seen a baby cry? It cries, cries, cries and minutes later it is in laughter again! Because the baby never thinks of the past or the future, it just enjoys the present moment. Maybe that’s a great lesson to learn from a baby to cherish the present moment innocently.
And what can be called as an icing on the cake, after that trip to Rishikesh, I had one of the best journeys back home and went on to attend a fantastic wedding, that of my cousin. And both of these events had their own charm. They were not like the trip but that’s why they were great. Sometimes things have to fall apart to make way for better things. You can’t just run back to past just because it is familiar.
The beauty of the moment is that it is fleeting. And it is fleeting because it is being chased by another moment, another beautiful moment. It is this elusive and transient nature of moments that make them so adorable…
It's a moment that I'm after,
A fleeting moment,
But not a frozen moment.
-Andrew Wyeth.
A fleeting moment,
But not a frozen moment.
-Andrew Wyeth.
Awesome..I agree...You spoke my mind...Its true that we always tend to look back and lose precious moments that occur in our day to day lives...
ReplyDeleteKeep it up sir!