GratitudeToAll

“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!