YOU'RE DROPPED IN FRONT OF WHAT YOU NEED




“Life has a way of taking you past your wants and hopes.
Instead, it drops you in front of what you need.”

Shannon Alder

As I write this Post, the Sun is slowly on its way home… The sky changes its attire as if it’s performing on a stage… Colours explode so beautifully, making the Sun appear calmer, gentler and prettier as it departs…

One more lockdown day is about to end. But, the sky and the Sun seem completely unaware of it! It’s one more day to Mother Nature… To Her, it’s business as usual.

But, we – you and I - are anxious…  We have been so busy building our castles in the air… We fantasized a life of ‘security’. And, suddenly, it seems, our castles were nothing but the bubbles in the air… and, the security has gone with the wind!

Gloomy words?

No Sir… Very bright and optimistic ones.

So much was not needed, anyway, for our so-called ‘security’… Such big mansions, such lavish lifestyle… Clothes, cars, education, food, entertainment, holidays – yes, everything was getting bigger, crazier and uglier. The restless obsession to keep up with Ambanis had already distanced us from the reality… We were never on the ground; you know it well!

And now?





Frankly, I don’t think the obsession to build our air-castles will end after the lockdown days… I don’t think, we will stop our craving to keep up with the Ambanis… We seem clear about it… We seem just waiting to start it, all over again!

The Sun has already gone home… The sky is colourless… dark!

But, Life?

Life can never be colourless. Even the darkest of the dark is only a share in the shade-card of Life!

So, the night is here… It’s the time when the mind and the heart are supposed to meet… It’s the real lockdown time.






Tomorrow will be a new day… The Sun will be born, once again… A gentle promise, that our needs will be taken care of… 

 Yes, our ‘needs’ I said!



GERALD D’CUNHA

Pic.: 1. Stefan Stefancik  2. Kat Jayne

Video: Mucahit Aycicek

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