“Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones
because regret is stronger than gratitude.”
~Anne Frank
A huge garland of old flowers floated passed my ferry boat
as I was sailing.
Sailing through one of the oldest rivers of the world, these
words kept ringing in my mind. For no particular reason, the music of
melancholy kept ringing in my ears. Ganges has always have this effect on
me.I have sailed through her for many a times, and each time irrespective of my
mood and company, I could not help but think about all the things she has held
inside of her!
Many braves have been immersed.
While many troubled have given her self up.
So many adieus.
Yet many successful voyages.
Many a storms came by.
Still, beautiful sunrises have been witnessed.
Thoughts kept hovering my mind, thoughts about our
existence.
We are a dot in the universe. We are a dot in the lap of
this vast watery abode.
Yet somehow we behave like the creator, as in we are the
ones who are holding everything together.
Is it??
Are we so naive to believe that we are above to any superior power holding the
universe together?
Call it what you want, God or Nature....but, it is not us.
Then why do we behave, that we are the ones that has the
right to destroy anything that had already been provided here?!?!
You know why?
.... because we are addicts.
We are addicted to the power, the pseudo power that has been
given to us by nature.
But little do we realize that this is the exact power that
is making us the prisoners of the world.
We can never feel free if we think ourselves to be all
powerful, because we are not.
We neither have the power to decide our life and death
nor what happens to us in between.
The only thing that we can do is try.
We can try to make this place livable,
We can try to show our gratitude to the living than mourn
for the dead.
In this way, even if our names won't be written in history
books, we could make sure that there will remain people, who would remember us
for appreciating their efforts while both the parties were alive!
The ferry boat reached my intended stop. I jumped out of it.
As I was leaving her to enter the man-made civilization, I
waved a kiss of goodbye and thanked her for letting me travel through her,
safely! ....
....and hoped that one day when I will be one with her, I
will be able to do what she does, as she does....selflessly!
#StayBlessed!