A Miracle called Life!

" There are only two ways to live your life-
One is... as though nothing is a miracle.

The other is... as though everything is! "

- Albert Einstein

How absolutely subtle... simple... yet profoundly meaningful!

How often do we find ourselves as passive onlookers with a stupefied look pasted on our face, as we silently see ‘Life’ pass us by…day by day…moment to moment… most often in all it’s grandeur!

Yet… we do not see anything astounding in it.

In the contemporary scenario, we humans do go about our life as though there is really nothing worthwhile...nothing exemplary...nothing new shaping before us. Yet every fraction of time brings with it a fresh moment...a moment replete with possibilities...with events...with people...with things…with concepts….with ideas etc. Everything around us is in a state of flux...and at every given moment...something new comes to origin.

So how come....we, with our two God-gifted channels of vision...fail to perceive them?

A simple thing may hold no significance for us at all... no real reason for us to be awestruck. But on the other hand, the same thing can be perceived as so charged with life...so pure...as though it's almost a miracle. This, in essence is how we can, or rather should view everything around us.

Have you ever observed an infant interacting with his environment? The twinkling, curious excitement in his tiny eyes is immensely riveting. Every moment, the infant tries to absorb the on-goings around him... be it in any form - people, colors, sounds, things etc. The awestruck eagerness generated in the infant during his experience of the real world is more than evident. For him, in that innocence, everything is like a miracle... an unfathomable wonder of sorts.

Sadly, that's not the case with us adults. We spend most of our life cribbing about our complacent, monotonous existence; giving a thousand reasons why we think, 'Life sucks'! That there is nothing…absolutely nothing… marvelous about this world we inhabit…and the nature of our subsistence. We travel through our Life as if in a stupor…. which in fact, is mostly the outcome of our own doing!

But in reality there is always something fascinating and marvelous unfolding… every single moment before us. We, however, fail to watch such sublime phenomena coming to life. How many of us have actually seen the flowers waking up to a dew-drop laden morning, bathed in the golden glow of the Sun? Or the birds grooming themselves early in the cool, misty breeze of a fresh morning? Such priceless moments take shape each day, as if immortalized and immune to the touch of time. Yet we are oblivious to such awesome phenomena and have de-sensitized ourselves to experience such miracles.

Perception… yes friends… THAT is the key! How you perceive your world around you, makes all the difference. It shapes our understanding, helps us build opinions and formulate thoughts. It is the difference between being welcoming towards ‘LIFE’ in every moment of your earthly existence or being blind-folded and trapped in the complacent, mundane routine of your urban lifestyle. Let your soul breathe and bask in the pure ecstasy offered by simple but meaningful episodes of a day.

So… break-free from the humdrum of life …

STOP… FEEL…. BREATHE! Let that child-like innocence in you, come to the surface. Let us percieve everything anew...with the same unpolluted, uninfluenced vision of a baby. After all, there is a child hidden somewhere, in all of us. May be, we need to let him take over sometimes, so that we don't completely lose touch with the miracles of Life and our World.

Cheers to the Miracle called Life!