Friday, January 20, 2012

Trees & Shrubs

A walk down, not the memory lane but just the usual road to college. Its lush green. Looks beautiful in pictures, looks awe inspiring in visualization! But it is more than usually overlooked by eyes which only keep looking for social or professional conditioned purpose. For eyes which keep a track of step & time. For a mind which is bent upon reaching the destination as quickly and with as much efficiency as possible! As if efficient walking was even a possibility! Strange!

How those usual walks changed, when that same pair of eyes started looking at the trees around. How the shrubs looked like the ones borrowed from movie landscapes or winning photography! How beautifully the colors began to tell a story...how magically all of a sudden there became so many shades of only one color - green!

That is when the mind realized, how tricky it is to be open to beauty, open to the environment around. That now it takes a conscious effort to not block every thing that comes our way. That it is almost maverick to be able to appreciate existence in just the way it exists.

The same path looks so much more inspiring now, because I have begun to look, not with my eyes, but with my mind. I have begun to notice how sunshine seeps through the web of leaves and network of twigs, how red gradates into thousands of shades of pink, brown and orange, how trees who have shed their trees look like a barren land which is lonely but nevertheless strong & proud, how the quietness of mind can let you hear sounds which never before existed for you, the chirping of birds, the leaves rumbling, the crackling & tweeting of insects!

Those sounds, those sights are not only in movies! They are all around! Everywhere! Just an open mind is a prerequisite to access all of this natural glamor! Inshaah Allah!

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