The Pursuit of Serenity

It has been a week since this incident had happened. I have been living a wonderful life since then. The perspective towards life has completely changed for me. I wanted to share it with every person who is in pursuit of happiness.

It was a usual morning. I was headed towards my college. Like many other days, I found out that the lecture on the subject was suspended again. I got irritated by the frequent cancellation of classes. It was a sunny and humid day. The next lecture I had to attend was to be delivered after about 3 hours. I was not in a mood to return to my room and back again. I decided to visit the library. But, it had slipped out of my mind that the library opened at 11:00am.It was only 9:30 in the morning .And as obvious, on reaching I found it to be closed. I had some water and with that heavy and boring head sat on a platform under the shade of a tree located in our campus.

There was already someone sitting at some distance to me. He was busy writing something on a paper. I found him continuously gazing at the football ground (Which has turned into grassland now). He looked at the ground and wrote something on the paper. Again he looked at the sky with amazement and wrote something. He once closed his eyes and acted as if he was absorbing something and started writing again. This whole scene was as amusing and looked weird as described.

After a long time of observation, I asked him what he was doing. He told me he writes. He writes on nature. He describes the beauty of nature and how peaceful it was just to observe and feel the nature. He told me he wanted to create awareness among people through his writing and help save the nature.

I kind of liked the thought of this person. Still I looked at him surprised and in a weird manner for it was very unlikely for students of our age to possess such thoughts as everyone is busy stabilizing their lives or after some counter gender shits or career oriented lives.  He ripped my thoughts apart and called me near him. He pointed towards the field and asked what I could see. I very much sarcastically replied” That grassland? Oh yeah, that used to be a football ground before we got independence. It would be a jackpot if the cattle were left inside.” He just gave a smile like he expected that coming already. “You look very stressed and irritated. Come on, let me show you something.” He asked me gently to get my thoughts aside and listen to him.

“Look at the grasses, dancing to the song of the wind. The grass-blades,  shining in the bright sunshine. It is like the wind playing a tickle game with them. Look the wave pattern they follow. It looks like someone is caressing the ground with love. Can you not feel the wind touching your body? It refreshes every part of the body and blows away the stress from the head. It is like you are under no gravity influence. “ and went silent. I saw him close his eyes and feel every word that came out of his mouth.

I now looked at the ground and to my astonishment, I no longer saw a football ground converted to grassland. It was all green and beautiful. I saw the grass blades dancing to the rhythm of wind. It was like when someone rubs their hands over a fluffy dog. The color of the grass blades green and yellow under the shining sun looked amazing. I had only studied that the color green is good for vision. But it was only now that I realized it . I usually wear spectacles to reduce eye strain but, when my hands automatically took them off and it felt rather soothing. It was peaceful and serene. My eyes were filled with joy and calmness. Then blew a breeze. It said something in my ears. Something  beautiful. It re-energized me. I actually felt zero-gravity inside my skull.I tried to feel it closing my eyes and it was all heaven. I was no more there. The wind rushing through my face and waving through my hairs was a feeling I could never explain. All the worldly stress and problems seemed never to have existed.  This was a feeling I could never trade.

This was the most beautiful experience I had ever gone through. I had felt the nature. It was a feeling gained only in the lap of mother. I wanted this to share to more people. I wanted everyone to experience the feeling. That feeling when you have nothing to worry about, nothing to care for, nothing to be responsible for. That feeling of serenity, Tranquility, on the lap of Mother Nature, Mother Earth.

Sometimes these thoughts knock my brain as ‘Why people welcome stress?’, ‘Why do they complain how problematic their life is?’ ‘Why can’t they find happiness which must be the ultimate goal for anything they do?’ ‘Why is everyone so busy and down and full of responsibilities?’

The answer for this is, most of them do not appreciate what life has to offer them. Most of them even don’t know about what I’m talking. People are so busy they don’t even have the time to be happy.They don’t even read this type of articles. Look around you, you may be anywhere, inside your room or office or classroom or any damn place on Earth. You can see the beauty of nature, the peace in it. It will soothe your soul. It will revive the happiness inside you. Not only Earth, go to the space, the space itself is the part of nature. Nevertheless, the sun is visible from other galaxies too.

Come on people; take time to enjoy the world you live in. Live the life you work like an animal for. Give it just a moment and nature will give you a whole lot of energy to pursue your goal. Don’t take my words try it yourself.

                                                                                                                                                                    

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           ~RV