IN THE SILENCE OF THE NIGHT

One night staring up at the stars in the balcony, a realization hit me. I decided then and there that I would write about it someday. And it goes like this….

I love gazing at the darkness of the night sipping tea, with nothing particular in mind. The sky, the stars, the moon, the hills, the horizon never fail to bring me some kind of inner peace. Sometimes I wish I could stay there forever drinking in the tranquility of the wondrous sight before me. I particularly like counting the stars and sometimes in the process I find myself counting the passing by planes as well. In other nights it takes me a while to decide whether it is a star or a plane. There are nights when I just stand there thinking about life in general. On some nights my mind takes me on a journey back in time, and I’m reminded of the good and the bad experiences  I’ve had and sometimes past incidents which I never want to remember come to the surface. If only those memories could be permanently deleted from my memory or I could bury them somewhere deep in my brain where I could never reach them………………………  

The tall buildings, the roads, the lights, all have their own charm and one cannot stop noticing them. The darkness of the night has some magical effect on everything making them more appealing to the eyes. Sometimes I put extra effort to observe the details, the little details one would not notice unless observed carefully. The more I looked the more I saw, things that I did not notice before and I question myself if they were there all this time. 

One such night my eyes decided to wander a little further than it used to. As a result I was looking at a whole new direction, one which I never gave that much attention to.  I was busy scanning all that lay in front of me when I spotted it. No, I didn’t see anything strange or extraordinary. It was just a road, a road which was not far from my sight. Not far in the sense I can make out the vehicles without much trouble. 

What makes it remarkable is the realization that hit me. The realization that sometimes we look too long in one direction that things which are right in front of our eyes and within our reach go unnoticed, the realization that sometimes we do not dare to look around to see the many opportunities that are available for us. And we complain that there are no opportunities, no blessings, nothing good in our life. But before you come to a conclusion about your situation let me ask you this. If I had not looked at the other direction or changed my angle of vision, do you think I would have ever noticed that road? Most probably the answer would be no. 

Take the road as a metaphor for opportunity and there are many out there which I’m yet to discover if I dared to look and pay attention. Same goes to you. So look around, observe, let your eyes wander, and find the treasures that are out there waiting to be discovered. Good Luck!

"Opportunities, they are all around us. There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it." Orison Swett Marden