Ever wondered about what life means? I used to do the same, until one day, during a birdwatching trip, to a sleepy village near Maddur in Karnataka, I lay on the bund of the tank, at night and watched the night sky. It was a clear moonless night and the Milky way was spread out in all its splendor above me. It was then that I realised that we humans are so pathetically little and inconsequential that in the reality of things, we do not matter at all. We are a part of the solar system, which revolves around the sun, and there are approximately 200 billion stars like the sun in the milky way. And the number of galaxies like the milky way itself are countless. The nearest galaxy (other than two satellites of the Milky Way), Andromeda, is almost 3 million light years away..... This means that there can be unlimited such solar (??) systems and we are so little in the cosmic scheme of things. So why are we wasting our time fighting on inconsequential things... Can't we live and enjoy this piece of time we have got called life? Am attaching a small poem
"Daffodils" (1804)
I WANDER'D lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the Milky Way,
They stretch'd in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed -- and gazed -- but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
By William Wordsworth (1770-1850).
Why can't we all be like those little daffodils, with big enough dil(s) to forgive, forget and generally enjoy life. Do you realise that these small flowers, that live for only a short while bring so much joy to everyone. Why can we not make it a motto of our lives to at least bring a smile to one face everyday??????????
