Saturday, September 1, 2007

A new day has come !


Just today, I completed 25 full circles around the Sun, along with the mother Earth..
And so I grew perhaps much mature, much experienced and much wiser...At least this is what people said in their wishes..And I am now looking inside myself.. Did I?
Did I grew much mature? Did I understood the new lessons of life quite well? Did I live upto the expectations of my friends, family..n parents? Did I grew up in something which I was supposed to be? Or is that had been yet another year of existence without a goal or motive?
I look back.. and I think .. and I ponder upon it..

Why do we celebrate our Birhdays? What is so good about completing a full calendar year, which is not so good, when we complete a full calendar month or day of our life? Why everybody comes and wishes me a wonderful new year ahead, year after year, while nobody wishes me a beautiful day the very next morning? Whats so good about an year, which is not so good about 6 months, or 10 years, lets say? An year I think is neither long enough nor short enough span of time.. But anything can happen in even a fraction of a second ...So whats so special about these 365.25 days ? (write your comments plz if you can think of a nice reason :-)

Whatever might have caused our ancestors to choose this time gap to celebrate a Birthday, I am sure about at least one thing..This is certainly meant to be a day to spend with your own self ..Time to be what you are.. Because what I understand is people, in this very race of life, are running so fast that they care about everything, except their own self.. And by this own self, I did'nt mean this body..offcourse many of us take care of it very well..but what I am talking about is the real self, which is hidden inside the layers of flesh, and which is what you actually are..and without which, you are nothing but a non-recyclable un-disposable trash...Do we take good care of that? Do we know that does it really need ?

People might say I am a happy man/women.. I dont have worries in my life except a few.. I dont have tensions in my life except some very little topics. I am always happy, and enjoying myself.. I am good to people, and people are also good to me... Then why do I need to worry about this little crap called soul ? What purpose would that serve ? I appologize but such an existence is corrupted by an overdose of happiness, and engrossed by thick layers of pleasure of senses.. and thats why we often find people complaining..."You see Akash..I have always been good to others.. I have always been truthful to people.. I never did anything wrong to anyone even in my dreams...Then why God did this to me ?" Well... If you think I am being insensitive, irrational and too much critical about those people, dont worry...
Friends, I am writing about none else other than myself here..
Because just like that Alice in the wonderland, I had been living in such a fairy world, where everything seems to be almost perfect..I had everything I wanted in my life, except very few.. and that made me complacent.. I became ignorant.. It started solidifying...And then at last, nature sent a cruel blow for me ..which shattered the castle of the wonderland into mere pieces..and I felt like a gloomy asteroid crashing into the vast desert of real world..and someone came and smiled over me..

Welcome to the real world Neo !

And today I realize what was the reason...The Golden rule always says, everything changes.. To change and evolve is the nature of everything...And if you dont follow this very nature, nature will remove you from the ladder of evolution..Every shape which doesnt fit into this mould of evolution, is discarded and melted again to get casted once back..And so this gigantic furnace of evoltion keeps on blowing, emitting fumes, and producing better and better products, known as living beings..And for me, this day called B'day, which basically reminds us of our manufacturing date, and a warns about the incoming expiry, is a day to reflect upon my condition, ask myself few questions, and to gather the answer for none else other than myself.. It iss a day when I try to be what I wanna be..and thanks for the lovely people all around, who never forget to remind me about it every year..

It had been something special today.. Not just another common day of life...And as I finish this blog, Winamp started playing the beautiful song from Celine Dion..

A new day has come...