A Window To Life

A wise man had once preached, your past is a guide of your future. He was correct. Often people prefer to sit in solitude and attempt to revisit their reminiscences. Not to just evoke jovial moments of their past, but to seek the direction for their difficulties from the mistakes they executed in their ignorance. And, they successfully surfaces with a solution along with a satisfactory smile stretched over their faces. The answers are always inscribed in the pages of past. All we need is to turn that particular leaf which encloses the required moral.

Mistakes are an integral part of life. One cannot deny this universal truth. But the world bustles with people with varied visions. There are many who believes if every step of life is carefully planned, if every act is double-plotted then there would be no room for mistakes. In that regard, they remain divested from surprises that life wanted to offer.

So what compels us to perform such blunders? Some says the reason behind such imprudent behavior is lack of knowledge. Some blames to their fate claiming it is all predetermined and are destined to occur. While some believes in one’s perception, the way we see the world and process our thoughts. So what is the reason? It may be one or all of it.

          

Henry David Thoreau, an American philosopher’s words may able to sort out such confusion. He once quoted, “It is not what you look at that matters, but you see.” He believed one can enjoy life’s true happiness only by the means of understanding the real nature of his surroundings, by seeing beyond the material covering.

            

 A person’s perception depends upon several factors. One among them is the circumstances and the way he had been raised up. During his growth he encounters both types of events – merry and miserable. Either it instils love or hatred in him and according to it he looks at the world. It is often found that most criminals had a childhood with dejected memories. 

Sometimes the poor child faces an extreme cruelty beyond his endurance which results in the complete destruction of his conscience. He fails to consider the good side of world and walks over the shadowed lanes from where the return journey is almost impossible. But, history is evident, there are people who tolerated their dark days with a hope that soon this wretched nightmare would fade and a new sun would shine with happiness. And, it did rise.

All along our life we are linked with many people; some are dears while others are just for the matter for concerned. Their action ripples across over our lives and influences us in many ways. Indirectly or directly it affects our scruples and we judge things with new view. It affects our reasoning.

 Why does it happen a normal place seems interesting in a photographer’s image? Why does a poem about a simple phenomenon intrigue us? It’s only matter of viewing things with a new angle. A photographer captures a moment which everyone ignores to watch. A poet weaves his imagination through words which others fail to envision.  A painter capsulate his thoughts which may be normal for others, but when his canvas get coloured with shades of his imagination, his thoughts becomes matchless.

             

Indeed, the beautiful sights are scattered throughout the world, along with man’s capacity for deriving pleasure from them, are the principal means for protecting man from becoming completely debased. The pleasure man derives from the beauty in nature and from the beautiful forms is a bridge to deriving pleasure from moral beauty.

We frequently meet people who try to educate us with religious philosophies about the true knowledge. They claim that we all are deceived by material illusions, blinded with lies and living a meaningless life. They always speak about the real beauty. What is this real beauty?

A small chubby child allured more than an elegant woman. Why? The explanation is simple. The beauty of child is the beauty of purity of spirit; they act the way they feel without being influenced by insincerity. There are no put-ons or pretending. The secret of beauty does not lie in superficial cosmetics, but can be only acquired from within. Only a beautiful, pure spirit, self inspired can produce a physical image of angelic beauty. This beauty is complete synchronization between external and internal, between body and soul. This kind of beauty does not fade with age or with changes in weight. It is a beauty that is cultivated inwardly and shines forth.

            

Life is a precious gift if we learn the right way to live. It is a valuable jewel if we don’t muddle it with worries and fake pretensions. Life is indeed an ecstatic journey if we choose our comrades wisely.

            

There won’t be another chance, live it with full extend.