The Last Leaf!!!
Writing doesn’t come in as naturally to me as it does to a lot of my fellow bloggers.I really have to think hard & my thoughts have to be absolutely clear about what I wish to write. After my last blog I was really thinking hard as to what my next blog should be on…lot of forced thought process went behind the same & still no luck. The thought process for this blog started in the most unexpected manner. It started at 4.30am on a Sunday morning after I woke up sweating feeling all queasy. I had a nightmare for a dream. I actually wanted to open my notebook & start work on this blog at that very moment but didn’t do that coz people at home would have got worried as to what d hell was wrong with me, nevertheless coming back to the nightmare; it actually showed me a different perspective towards life.
I felt I was the last leaf left on to a tree which was shedding all the old ones at the onset of winter making space for the new ones to arrive in spring. I was clutching on to the tree so very hard almost fighting it out to stay in there. We all do clutch on to things in our life, we do it either consciously or unconsciously and with time we do accumulate lot of baggage without realizing about it. Well “change” is one of the major reasons for the accumulation. Why is it that we all are so averse to change even though it is for the betterment? We all love to live in the familiar surroundings that we are so very used to & any unknown situation makes us uneasy, we detest to even explore the unknown paths which could lead to something better than the present.
Sometimes we under pressure react to certain situations in a particular manner & later when the pressures have subsided think that may be we could have handled the whole situation differently. Even though unpleasant the dream actually made me realise that we should always be open to embracing change, since change is the only constant thing in life, without change actually there would be no life.
So the lesson that I learnt out of the nightmare was that I rather be the “Tree” who is shedding old leaves (doing away with the baggage) every year to make way for the new one’s i.e. embracing change to build a beautiful & a pleasant life, rather than be “The Last Leaf” clutching on to the tree & fighting a loosing battle.
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Geesh! Someone is gettin better by the day! Guess, 11th May was an auspicious day to post a blog according to the Pandit’s calculation -wasn’t it…Thats why the delay!
Welcome Back Lady!
Thanks so very much…..& its only bcoz u’ve been pushy wth me that I am actually writing….ur encouragement has resulted in all d blogs above…Thanks for that
Life is nothing but a bundle of contradictions. I personally have experienced and lived the dictum – “change is the only constant”. Everything around us is ever changing, come to think of it, even we consist of a bundle of cells which keep regenerating every moment.
Its ironical that after talking of freedom, you choose to be rooted, and be a tree.
hey Thanks ashutosh for ur views…actually u’ve shown a different aspect to the whole blog esp with ur last line…put me into different tangent of thinking….
hey thats really a good one……seems someone is on her wings,,,,,,
I guess Freedom means another change and another shedding of set of leaves from the old tree.Every new change is freedom from old and tree is just a synonym to life.
Hey Thanks for ur views Vikas…ur bang on with my thought process about taking the tree as a synonym to life…
Very well written. You have a unique style of writing and that makes the write up even more interesting.
As regards to the topic, Lord Krishna quotes in Bhagwad Geeta “Parivartan hi Sansaar ka Neeyam Hai”
keep writing