Yes Life and a rose you read it right, most of us are happy to take good things and good news, and thank god for all these happenings, little do we accept grief in the same way or should we accept it the same way?
Similarly the way we hate few things; we say "I hate him to the core", should we really use such phrases in life? Or just because a rose thorn pricks you hate the rose? Here I have taken a pick of comparing life and a rose and you decide which one you want to pick.
We exchange rose as a token of love and stands as a symbol of love, and learn nothing from its life, which lives ranging from few hours to days based on how we treat it, but it treats every one the way we handel it, at this point you must be thinking about the thorns and the flower … yes rightly so, should we say the thorn is bad as it pricks and we have to chip off the thorns and have only the rose with the stem, yes it’s a wise thing to do, but we have to give the thorn its due respect and remove them gracefully.
Why do I say that? Must be tickling you how can a thorn which pricks me be good? Right questions. The answer would be yes the thorn is "GOOD", it has taken care of the rose from the time it was a bud and protected it till was separated from the originator the plant , not only the flower the plant as a whole form its kind of predators. That’s God’s creation for you every thing in life has a reason and a reason for good.
Now we have the rose, you choose to have it with thorns or not, here thorns become a choice for you either ways the cause will be same, but the way to handle it would be different, that’s the way our life is, most often we fail to understand the cause and crib and wean about life being sad and painful, our protection from thorns in life is the faith and trust which must be imbibed in us but its buried to non existence in few of us. When we live in faith and not burry it ,then life is the same either thorn or the rose will have equal acceptance and hence the balance of welcoming happiness and grief equally , and life a beautiful rose, which also means a more meaning full life a life were self comes last, and making the people around us comfortable and happy, that gives us a chance to find the reason for our lives which many of us are searching for… the reason for every ones life should start as a rose and transform in to a tree which stands a testimony for selflessness.
Life is a gift to all human beings it all depends on how we look at it, we are all roses though we might be of different colour, size and any possible characterization you can think of, so is the rose you have different colours, sizes and endless range of characterization, but the purpose of its life is simple, live a life for others, it represents love, affection, care and what not?? But always for a synonym of love … have any one exchanged roses when in hate??? That’s where our choices go wrong when we choose hate we choose materialistic junks as a companion and become a symbol of endless hate, we all have the same choices available in life we all are the same flowers, its just a reflection of us what really makes us what we are … as one of professor used to say its always a good habit to look at the mirror early in the morning and feel good about yourself, I was wondering dose it really work?? Believe me it really dose work!!
Oh my MIRROR now that’s what you must be grumbling about..! Sorry folks I have jumped in to an ocean called life now confusing you with a mirror, I am left with no choice, oh ok now that I have jumped in to the ocean of life bare with me for some more. After all you might not be liking only fishes, you love prawns and crabs too … sorry for the veggies... oh k here is something for you too, you might not be loving only broccoli but beans and wide range on other veggies too… but to me I feel veggies or fishes both have life, either ways we kill them, that apart lets come back to the mirror.
Yes the MIRROR, no don’t get me wrong, not inspired from the theme of delhi6 (it’s a good one though) but what I have experienced, a mirror is one which reflects what you are and every morning when you look at it , and if you are boldly able to face yourself in the mirror have a smile and if you can speak to your eyes then you will really start living the life of a rose and soon a life of a tree , some wouldn’t be able to face the mirror then the obvious reason would the path of Hate when some one hates some one he wouldn’t be in a position to love himself.
Ok let me end with a comma as life is beautiful and it’s a never ending journey of love … and not bore you another fish in the ocean or another veggie in the garden.
Here is one of my own quotes on life for all those undergoing pain and loss of any kind,
"It really takes a dark day to know the real brightness of a star" – Ranjith
Yes dark days are here to show us how bright we are and once we know how bright it is we will know what to do to make it brighter or dimmer as required, let’s accept dark as we accept brightness.
Shouldn’t be missing this when speaking about life, in the recent Oscars when A.R. Rahman received his awards his words were inspiring and I quote "Throughout my life I had choices, choice of love and hate, I choose love and I am here" – ARR rightly said AR
Every one of us have the same choices in life! What do you want to choose … contemplate,
