Within and Without

The world runs at its own pace.Time and tide waits for none. We run the world, yet, like the hamster on a wheel, we must keep up with the pace, if we don't want to fall flat on our faces. So what if we are tired, so what if we are grumbling, we must move on, we must keep up. If we stop to think, it all becomes a blur. So much to do, so many responsibilities, so little time, and to make things worse, all of it is not made any easy for us by the others. What are they doing? Everybody is busy minding their own business, no time for others, no compassion, no harmony. We grumble on, hardly noticing the next person who is grumbling about us, and this is how, the world moves on, day after day, everyday. Our throats are parched, our backs aching, joints stiff, mind numb, but the show must go on.

As we run our daily shows, we often think of a holiday, a dream holiday, where we can relax, breathe, calm down. For once, the world has stopped. Unexpectedly, we have been granted that one week with seven Sundays, that we have always dreamt of. We cannot go out, all the work has been brought to us in our homes, our comfort zones. We have time, we finally have the break, yet where is the happiness? People are still suffering, what is the government up to, what is the opposition saying, where is the money going, what are these people thinking, what is new in the news, is that even true, how much longer will this go on, and so on, and on  and on we go. Happiness stands by, waiting for the chance to enter our lives.

But wait, there is one question that we have conveniently forgotten to ask in all this hullabaloo, among all of these questions that need to be answered, how many of them can be answered by us? What is it that we can do to make the situation a bit better from our sides? It can't be that we have no role in all of this, we run the world after all!In our anguish for the wildfire in the forest, we simply forget to water our own houseplants.

What were all the things that we had craved to do, if only given some time! The entire list is still out there, waiting to be done. The resources are limited, but the opportunities still remain unlimited. Our three most important assets are caving for our attention, the mind, the body and the soul. All the negativity out there, belched out by the news channels, the social media, in the family group, or from that one person, this is the time to cut it out. We sitting in our homes, cannot do anything about what is going on out there. The people on the lines of duty are doing their most. We can be grateful to them. But when the news and messages come in about what is not going right, or what is going terribly wrong, it is still those front liners who has to deal with it. We can do the most by not flaring out at it from our side, a wind is the worst for a wild fire. Seeking out the good news among all of this, a bit of joy, a little piece of laughter, spreading it out, that maybe all somebody needs to see right now in these trying times. We can give them that much, we can spread some joy, we can enjoy it as much ourselves.

Our own stiff joints and sore eyes have been crying for our attention for a long time now. Every inch of our body, the tired eyes, the broken skin, the split ended hair, the cracked ankle, it is their time now. A little bit of care, something here and something there, we know it within, that our body will respond. We have all the solutions at hand, a few free hand stretches, some yoga, some home therapy, beauty tit-bits, these have all been stored in the back ground of our minds for so long now. We had promised, someday, it would all be done, and that someday is here. Someday is today. For so long now, we have presented ourselves to the world, today, we can just present ourselves to our own selves, express and judge all we want to, and find our newer versions from within.

Our soul is very different from our mind and body. It craves for easily available pleasures, yet we fail to understand. It is not hard to please at all, all we need to do is close our eyes, take a deep breath and find our mind space, where we feel free, and light, where we can spend an eternity, where we want to spend an eternity. This mind space could be generated in our own living space. All those cozy corners we have checked and saved on Pinterest and Instagram for so long, they all have their reflections in our surroundings. A change of color here, a touch of fabric there, some more greenery in the corner, or that music list from the childhood, they all have their own magic to themselves. We are creators, creation satisfies us, and this is the time, when we can create to the fill of our soul, maybe in the kitchen, maybe in the balcony, maybe on paper, or maybe on the wall. Our soul never really needs much, it is happy with the little pleasures of life, those which are never very far away.

It was time that we wanted, it is time that we have been granted. Investing it on our most favorite person, ourselves, could never be a waste. A little a day, each day, every day, could create wonders. Storms never last forever, and this too shall pass, but at the end of the storm, let us be our own rainbows, fresh, colorful, gleaming in the sunshine, up and out for the world to behold. Think of all the rainbows that we all could create, the world would definitely be a much more beautiful place, much vibrant, way more refreshing.