My dear readers,
It is a pleasure to get back to writing after a long hiatus. Well the void was due to various reasons, but today I still find that no reason is justified when you cant make time for what you love to do. Hence I have learnt another lesson by life, for life. :)
Tears of joy...or a cry for help?
Most of us have been taught right from our schooling days that man is a social animal. Whenever I heard this from my teachers in school, I always used to amuse myself by thinking that if men were social animals, women might be socializing animals....and I wondered how interesting this aspect would be! Well, on a serious note, 'humans' are always on a perpetual mission of craving for something materialistic, emotional and spiritual all through theirs lives. I guess when God forbade 'the 1st couple' from eating 'the fruit', HE did so since HE knew that men & women will get too social as animals. Unfortunately HIS fears came true, thanks to a crawling catalyst! The point I'am getting to is that does this habit or nature of craving and asking embedded in our mind since birth or it evolves through the years and situations.
A young Indian mother hopped in the train one morning, carrying her couple-of-months old (guessing the age) baby in her arms. The baby was the cynosure of all eyes in the compartment since God had blessed him with a very pretty and smiling face. The mother looked to be all excited to have a metro ride with her tiny little baby. They both were talking in their own baa baa boo boo language which I'am sure had many grammatical mistakes made by the mother because I could see that the baby was not able to understand what the Mum was saying most of the times.
It begins now! Here came a station and the train obviously halted there, passengers got in and few disembarked. Apart from the sounds and chaos in the station, what one could hear very loudly and clearly was the cry of a baby. It shot out in the train as though someone sounded a siren for war or a drill. We all turned and looked at the direction of the sound and saw this Indian baby crying uncontrollably. The Mom was trying her best to first of all stop her baby from crying and also from attracting attention by all passengers around her. But you see, there's one talent that babies love to show and compete with fellow babies...that talent is crying and it takes an effort, at times even by the Mum to calm the baby down. Unfortunately our lady here was finding it very difficult to stop her baby's outburst. All this happened until the time the train was non-mobile at the station. As soon as the train continued its journey, the baby 'instantaneously' stopped crying. Everyone felt relieved more-so the mother. I got back to listening to songs on my iPhone and it was all fine...until the next station. The train began to slow down as it approached the station and the baby act began again. This time it was with superb characterization. The kiddo first made up a frown on his face, slowly lifted his head to look up to his mom as though asking "now what happened again?", the mom, perplexed had just began to looked at him, the train stopped and he started.....oooaaaaaa oooooaaaaa.... Instead of looking at her baby and calming him down, she looked at us around her and started smiling and giggled as though her kid performed exactly as she taught him for this play called 'cry-stop-cry'! Well, this continued for at least for 3 stations more until where I got out at my station and this duo continued the journey. I wonder if it continued later on too.
Just like this baby, most of us become crying babies when we need something in life or are dis-pared from doing or having something we love or like alot. When we enjoy doing something or being with someone it becomes a part of our life. When it is detached or placed away from us for a while or permanently, we cry. When one need or prayer is answered or when one desire or possession is granted, our hearts and minds are immediately ready for the next 'ask'. This takes us back to the basic mantra of humans being social animals. But unlike this baby; whose reason to cry was the temporary pause in its feeling of being in a train (without even having the knowledge or understanding of what it is all about), our needs and wants, prayers and desires too; most of the times are irrational and one too many. Also, we seldom thank God for answering our prayers (which our numerous) but proactively make ourselves available for every possible opportunity where we can ask or shamelessly plead to God time and again to answer every need. It's a different thing that God is all merciful, loving and kind in ignoring our greed and yet answering our prayers (if it is HIS will). Why is it so difficult for us to shed tears of joy and contentment about the fact that we are alive today and have been given the opportunity to be worthy of receiving the grace of another day tomorrow in our lives? And why is it so easy to cry and crib about things that we (most of the times) don't need direly and keep trying to get God to hear and answer us 'always'.
Know this my dear friends, when you shed a tear of thanks, gratitude and humility to God, HE answers our prayers even before we can find words to express what we need. Don't we know that he had already planned and destined our lives even before we were conceived?
Socialize....with humans and animals. Don't be greedy social animals...lest you cry, for something or the other, all the time!
Now please smile... :)
