The glimpse of "True Love"

There's a book by Mitch Albom called Five people you meet in heaven..
It talks about what happens whend you die and you go to heaven.. according Mr.Albom's perception.. he says that you meet the 5 people in heaven who have tranformed your life knowingly or unknowingly...

And in that book he says... that every life had a glimpse of true love.. just one glimpse or a snapshot that fills your mind and hear with the amazing feeling that you were once in love or if lucky are still in it.. :)

I have this picture of true love etched in my memory, my mind, my soul...

Life seemed to have just stopped in that moment.. everything was still.. and all that moved was the train.. and it chugged away from the station.. leaving him standing on the platform.. and waving towards me.. with me trying the best i could to control the clouds of tears from bursting in my eyes... cause i did not want him to have that as the last glimpse.. till we met again..

what s the glimpse of true love for you?
and if you dont have one then imagine...

broken..
sad..
numb..

I am within.

Bliss Exists

In between the earth and the sky.. On a rusted iron bridge over the dancing waters of the wild Teesta... With hills encircling the horizon.. the sky over me like a blanket with printed white clouds.. The wind doing the tango.. And with that one person who makes life worth while...

I felt Bliss.

and i did it..

Some day , some time in August about four years ago..

A thoroughly city born, bred girl ... left her home..to start on a journey ... a journey to learn ... to create .. to meet ....

She left the city for a place thats connected by just the one road with the world outside... so secluded and closed that even if a world war broke ... it would hardly affect that place's existence ..

A place where mobile's were an endangered species....

A place where the sky was really sky blue... a place where the river changed colours with seasons.. a place where the birds actually sang on trees and not in ventilators.. a place very close to heaven... a place called Sikkim..

She met people who found her weird... people from places she did not even know existed on earth.. she learned..
she got despised without a cause and loved without one... she felt...

and despite the fierce blows of time and circumstances, she kept going...

She grew from a girl to a lady.. from a teenager to an adult... from no one to an Engineer...

The journey started four years ago.. now draws to a close and she starts on another journey yet again... to learn, to grow.. to feel..

and the she happens to be me.

what do you like most about life??

each time i meet a new perosn, the third or the fourth question i ask that person is " what do
they like most about their life.."

some people dismiss it thinking i m just a crazy kid.. with stupid thoughts and a lot of freetime..

i dont want to stop them from thinking so.. neither do i want to even attempt to do so..

i want to share with you some of the answers that I really liked..

my best friend told me.. after a lot of contemplation over dinner.. " i like the the way the humans connect to each other.."

its such a beautiful and true thought... say for a simple and latest instance... jhumpa lahiri imagined and wrote the namesake.. Mira Nair.. read it.. was touched by the thought of a woman to the extent that she made a movie on it.. And we went to watch that movie and cried in the cinema hall.. the silent tears at the loss of the Gogol's father and the betrayal of his wife. .. is it simply not amazing that.. a woman i never knew existed imagined and wrote .. and i unaware of her being, watched a movie and cried..

so true were my friends words...

one of my senior's in college told me that the best thing about life in his view is the "ability to forget things.."

can u recall the most trivial of fights and all the bad things people have done to you and you did to people... gosh!!!! i thank GOD for the gift of forgetting : )

some one told me the feeling of being loved is the best thing about life...
and it is indeed a feeling that makes you feel so pure and light...

i also got in reply .. the feeling of the morning sun on my face... the whisper of the wind in my ear.. peace ..

The reason why I ask this to people is cause it makes me feel happy for there are so many things in life that I can cherish although there will always be more that i'd want...

What i like most about life is passion and the fact that there are no reverse gears in life..

What do you like most about life??

The Fairytale that never was to be but still is...

" I trust you ".
No reply.
"Do you understand?"
"I do".
Silence.

And in that silence, they made a bond. A bond For them. For each other.For Life.
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They lived in different physical worlds.
But it did not matter. Cause the worlds within them were the same.

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"You are my New Year present".
Smile.
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They talked a lot. About every thing and anything and at times nothing.
They grew on each other like flowers on earth.
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" I am glad that our paths crossed".
" I hope its not just the crossing of paths but a long journey together".
"hmm".
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Together they were wild, restless, enrgetic....... Free...
Yet bonded strong.
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"We have different lives both You and I.. But why are we still here??"
A gaze that said all and nothing at the same time.
"You think any one will ever understand us??"
"No".
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"Just a few more days left.. and I ll leave.."
"you wont come back soon".
"what makes you think so??"
Silence.

The silence they shared was much more than a lot of empty words and hollow conversations.
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The night they said bye.. one of them knew they ll never meet again.
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The earth is never left in peace sometimes by troubles from the inside and some times with troubles from the out side.There was an unsaid resignation cause it got difficult to breathe.
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Moved on they did... but could not from each other.. cause every lil thing brought back nostalgia.. cause what they shared was more than just time... they shared existence... so truly, they did and do have a long journey together... but ...

measurement

" they say this is right" .. "thats wrong".. "they say do this" .. "and not that".. "they say eat this" .."not that"..

"they say walk like this" .. "sit here"....

"don't talk like that"..

"thats not how its to be done"..

and more and more such direct or indirect pointers are to come and keep adding to the brewing account..

But why do I give them the right to dictate the terms of my life..

and Why do I accept it as a way of life.. some times as a daughter...as a sister.. as a human being.. as a friend.. .. cause I should not.. its my life and ideally i should live it my way..

and Yet I let them...

What if humans had cholorphyll

i sit here in in my chair and wonder about some thing thats substantially inconsequential..
and still i wonder.. " what if humans had chlorophyll ??"

i know its too weird a thought.. but i do think about it..

To start with it ...

i think we d be green...all of us the whole of us..the hands.. the eyes.. the face..

food will never be problem.. there d be none who would go hungry.. or rather very few people will go hungry..

will we have to be in the soil like plants??
what colour clothes will we wear??

will racism still exist??
will people still fight??

and i still wonder...