Nature offers countless things to revel in. I talk of the things we can relish aesthetically or appreciate the beauty of their occurrence. Sunrises, sunsets, full moons, crescents, scenic beauties, flowing rivers, sea waves, glaciers, hot springs, rainfall and snowfall, the sounds that snowfall generates, the blizzards, the snow storms, greenfields, scenes inside the world of a nest, making of a nest, view of a suckling calf, animals moving in herds and even we take pleasure in watching a lion or other beast pouncing on its prey (Animal Planet fans). In short the more we try to view nature keenly more things we will discover to appreciate and think about. Some nature lovers cross continents, go into unexplored waters and lands to discover the beauty of nature. My obsessive fascination has been with the arrival of dawn and that comes at the 'cheap' cost of sleep.
For me this arrival signifies many things, the important of which is the triumph of white (justice) over darkness. Same can be presumably argued about dusk that darkness over powers light. But we human beings as well as other living beings try to defeat that apparent victory of darkness. Birds move into their nests and animals move into their burrows, dens or sheds. And we human beings try to win over this darkness by creating artificial light and minimize the impact of this darkness at least for a certain period of time daily. We (un)welcome dusk by switching on the lights. On the other hand dawn penetrates into our lives unknowingly (except for few of us who sleep late or wake up early) and when we see it has come we make a new beginning at the minimum begin a new day.
During every dawn I try to discover something new so I always look into the sky, look around searching for reasons to concrete my love with it. Best moments in love lives always come as surprises and same happened today morning. My eyes captured the best scenes of the dawn till now. But believe me that will always count as one among the best.I was driving so wasn't much focused on the onset of the morning presuming it to be the one I had explored enough. But real real beauty danced before my eyes. All of a sudden the headlights of my car became irrelevant and in a fraction of second I could see things at a long distance that were till then invisible. It would have been that last ray of sunlight that made whole of it effective. Perhaps the proverbial weakest link of the chain that brings the complete strength. Simply I was left awe struck. And it filled me with some different energy and my day took a different turn as if dawn today had brought something different for me.
With the additional unadulterated energy from this special breakfast I reached my workplace literally dancing. Had to go from my building to adjoining building through an over bridge, called as 'tunnel' may be because it is covered and air-conditioned, but is not a tunnel according to engineering parlance. As soon I entered this 'tunnel' my eyes fell on a girl who was walking with the help of walking aids just in front of me. This walking aid seemed unusual to me because it had two wheels towards the front which usually are not in the aids for those who need support for physical disability. So by the time I was walking beside and then in front of her I realized that this aid was for visual disability. Usually in this part of the world for convenience of a certain section of population all the entrances have electrically run doors that remain open for a long time so one doesn't have to push or hold the door while crossing it. Usually I also wouldn't have held the door for this girl if we were at a long distance. But we were walking so close that it would have been completely unethical not to hold the door for her.So both of us reached the other end of the tunnel rather entered that target building simultaneously.
I didn't see her having a guide dog along with which is a usual thing in such cases.I slowed down my movements in case she needed some help.And she asked for the directions towards the elevator.Once I guided her up to elevator she said "now things 'look' familiar to me". With these words something struck me.I never recognized my familiarity with these places or never felt the need to focus on these buildings, the location of the elevator or the hall way leading to the elevator.So these words were something that I should say shook me and were enough to take me into a different state. My dancing turned into gentle steps and all of a sudden I felt all energy of that unadulterated breakfast vanishing out of me.While returning back through that tunnel I looked outside, thought of that girl and tried closing my eyes for a moment (my heart is again racing remembering how I felt that time). I couldn't dare to!A strange fear had gripped me what if when I open my eyes I won't see the sunlight.I tried again and my eyelids refused to cooperate.No my mind, my heart, my feelings, my soul all were in full coordination and eyelids became a way for their expression.There I realized some live in a never ending dusk and it is life to them.
P.S: The more we have the more we want. And in that pursuit we ignore small things that we have been blessed with. Every tiny thing in our life is equally important and we should always recognize and appreciate them.
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