Early one Sunday morning, my friends and I got together for a jog. We were bickering about a lot of things on our way. Then came our favorite spot, the Jogger’s bench. We all sat down and started with our regular stretching exercises, when one of my friends chuckled. He always has a unique way of looking at things and he often gets amused by little things in life. We call him Mr Horrible, for the horrible jokes that he cracks.
What now? We all thought, as he started to roll out his newly found “horrijoke”. He asked us in raised voice, - “Has anyone seen a star in day time?”
We did not understand, how a person could ask such a stupid question. We did not answer him; instead we all gave him a cold stare. But my friend there didn’t lose out, he had some thing in his mind and he was determined to share that with us. But more importantly, he would do so, only if we co operate. So with no other option, we all lazily replied, “hey Mr Horri. don’t u know that we don’t see stars in the day time?, how could you be sooooo stuuupid”, and all of us fell to ground and rolled with laughter.
But my friend there still had a wide grin on his face. We knew he had a better answer. He got up from the bench and proclaimed, “Hey guys, u r the ones who are stupid… Don’t u see, the sun is also a star and its there in the sky all daytime?” We all started chasing him to caught hold of him. We all rolled in the early morning dew and had the heartiest laugh.
That evening, the incident came back to my mind and made me think. I realized, that most of the things in my life are like the sun, camouflaged by other little things that I thought was LIFE.
I got this revelation, which since then has been my resolve – “To see things as they are”.
I realized I had frantically went in search of love, but was blind to see that it was always around me in the form of my family.
I realized that I had went in search of little little materialistic things for my happiness, but was blind of the enormous potential of LOVE.
I realized that I had went in search of the job that would satisfy me, but was blind of my hobby of composing music.
And, I realized that for everything that I wanted, I had it near me, but didn’t have the eye to see it.
Just then the church bell rang…
And God said to me, “Dear son, even I am there always around you like the sun, but you fail to see me as what I am. Open your eyes now. See the bountiful beauty around. See things as they are!
