"Tringg!! Tringg!! Goes the bell!! Hey! It’s the Hogwarts bell, trying to call everybody for dinner? Oh no!! Voldermort is back and the bells ringing!! No way.. I thought he was dead long back and Harry was living quite happily ever after!! No, No!! It’s my favourite morning alarm, trying its best to wake me up into reality.
There you go; It’s 5 0'clock!!I am up and I thank my alarm and look at my husband and son. What an angel my son looks like when he is sleeping!! Well soon he will be up and ready to drive me crazy!!!
So I rush to get the cooking done, to pack his bags and my bags and to check my emails (this constant email checking syndrome!! Never been able to get out of it). And I keep looking at the clock all the time. It’s now seven in the morning and out come my boys. My husband does a good job managing the little monster and getting him ready for the day!! Then clock strikes 8 and we all run down for the day!! Out for a long journey!!!
I drop my son, get to my seat at work with a coffee and I am all charged up for my code. You see I have already checked my emails and this saves a ton of my time at work. Then the day begins!! Goals! Short ones and long ones. Meetings!! People and of course a lot of corporate language. I feel elated that I have delivered another project again, ahead of schedule!! (This keeps me going!!) I still keep looking at the clock. Then I realise that looking at the clock all the time is made me extremely efficient under pressure and I give myself a pat!!
Then the clock strikes 6 and I run down again to get my son. Then we play for a while before we hit the sack!!!
This is my everyday journey and eventually the journey of my life!!! Sometimes, I wonder, why and where I seem to be running all the time. That is a million dollar question of my journey!!
One day my husband tells me that this running is not enough and I better start a morning run to keep tab of my health! Yes, every machine needs to be maintained you see :-). Anyways I tell myself what is the big deal, I run the whole day and running for half an hour in the morning shouldn’t be a problem.
So I get up everyday a little earlier and run to the beach!! I love sitting at the beach and watching the waves!! Everything seems so small when you look at the sea!! Hence I make that beach my goal!! And I run. Hell!! It’s so difficult running ...my legs ache, my heart burns! And I just don’t like it at all. But the sight of the beach, the early morning rays of the sun, the smell of the morning air, keeps me pushing, to run everyday!! I hated the run, but loved the beach. So I kept running!!
Then one day, as I sat at the beach, watching the sun rise, it hit me!! It hit me like a thunderbolt!! It was almost like someone shook me from a deep slumber.
It’s not the destination which makes a journey!! It’s the journey, in itself which makes it worth going!!
On my way back, I looked at the birds!! What a freedom of flight they enjoy!!!
I was smiling for the first time during my run!! Then I look below, the mangrove forest is full of crabs and millions of creatures brimming with life..!! Nature!! Once again conquers me!! Then I look around, the dew drops on the grass and the smell of the flowers.... they seem to be talking to my soul. Then some familiar faces, waving nicely to me!! What warm smiles!! ..
And then even before I realised, I was back home and time had just disappeared. From that day, I could run, run much longer than I had ever done before!!
I had been too obsessed with goals, that I missed the sheer fun of the journey all the time!! Run for the sake of running, work for the sake of working and love for just the sake of loving and then this journey suddenly becomes a miracle!! The soul wakes up in this journey and you no longer care where it goes. As long as you are part of the journey!! And death becomes just a stop over between the flights!!
To see the whole world in a grain of sand,
To see the heaven in a wild flower,
To live seconds rather than moments,
To die anytime with a smile,
Oh my lord, make my journey divine
That my soul remains awake all the time.
There you go; It’s 5 0'clock!!I am up and I thank my alarm and look at my husband and son. What an angel my son looks like when he is sleeping!! Well soon he will be up and ready to drive me crazy!!!
So I rush to get the cooking done, to pack his bags and my bags and to check my emails (this constant email checking syndrome!! Never been able to get out of it). And I keep looking at the clock all the time. It’s now seven in the morning and out come my boys. My husband does a good job managing the little monster and getting him ready for the day!! Then clock strikes 8 and we all run down for the day!! Out for a long journey!!!
I drop my son, get to my seat at work with a coffee and I am all charged up for my code. You see I have already checked my emails and this saves a ton of my time at work. Then the day begins!! Goals! Short ones and long ones. Meetings!! People and of course a lot of corporate language. I feel elated that I have delivered another project again, ahead of schedule!! (This keeps me going!!) I still keep looking at the clock. Then I realise that looking at the clock all the time is made me extremely efficient under pressure and I give myself a pat!!
Then the clock strikes 6 and I run down again to get my son. Then we play for a while before we hit the sack!!!
This is my everyday journey and eventually the journey of my life!!! Sometimes, I wonder, why and where I seem to be running all the time. That is a million dollar question of my journey!!
One day my husband tells me that this running is not enough and I better start a morning run to keep tab of my health! Yes, every machine needs to be maintained you see :-). Anyways I tell myself what is the big deal, I run the whole day and running for half an hour in the morning shouldn’t be a problem.
So I get up everyday a little earlier and run to the beach!! I love sitting at the beach and watching the waves!! Everything seems so small when you look at the sea!! Hence I make that beach my goal!! And I run. Hell!! It’s so difficult running ...my legs ache, my heart burns! And I just don’t like it at all. But the sight of the beach, the early morning rays of the sun, the smell of the morning air, keeps me pushing, to run everyday!! I hated the run, but loved the beach. So I kept running!!
Then one day, as I sat at the beach, watching the sun rise, it hit me!! It hit me like a thunderbolt!! It was almost like someone shook me from a deep slumber.
It’s not the destination which makes a journey!! It’s the journey, in itself which makes it worth going!!
On my way back, I looked at the birds!! What a freedom of flight they enjoy!!!
I was smiling for the first time during my run!! Then I look below, the mangrove forest is full of crabs and millions of creatures brimming with life..!! Nature!! Once again conquers me!! Then I look around, the dew drops on the grass and the smell of the flowers.... they seem to be talking to my soul. Then some familiar faces, waving nicely to me!! What warm smiles!! ..
And then even before I realised, I was back home and time had just disappeared. From that day, I could run, run much longer than I had ever done before!!
I had been too obsessed with goals, that I missed the sheer fun of the journey all the time!! Run for the sake of running, work for the sake of working and love for just the sake of loving and then this journey suddenly becomes a miracle!! The soul wakes up in this journey and you no longer care where it goes. As long as you are part of the journey!! And death becomes just a stop over between the flights!!
To see the whole world in a grain of sand,
To see the heaven in a wild flower,
To live seconds rather than moments,
To die anytime with a smile,
Oh my lord, make my journey divine
That my soul remains awake all the time.
5 comments:
True, Sam. It's the journey itself that makes everything worth it :)
hey i m thrilled to hear from you...so u r reading the crap i am writing..thats a surprise :-)
ya its the journey ...and who else teaches you this bettter than ur child :-)
Yes! Now you have viewership (readership!!) you should write more often!
Completely inline with you thoughts! I blogged about a similar topic too a while back and ever since have been trying to not just preach but practice it day to day :-) Btw, I am Laxmi's friend !!!
oh Rashmi Mudiyanur..thanks for your comments...just saw it now..will look up your blog!love to connect!!
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