Life isn’t all roses and rainbows but once in a while when they do appear, make sure you enjoy them too!
For the past few weeks, I’ve been in the throes of severe pain. Sleepless nights and long days of waiting for an appointment to see doctors and therapists have taken quite a toll on me. The migraine has come back with full force and I’ve had to resume my Acupuncture sessions with my doctor, so long hours on the road has been a routine thing all over again. Last night, I felt so drained that it seemed every ounce of optimism had been wrung out of me.
Thankfully, the mornings have been helping me to recalibrate myself all over again especially the meditation practice and somehow I’ve managed to keep my hopes alive that things will get better again.
On the weather front, it’s been a spell of all greys and incessant rain for the past couple of days, and I have to say that it does nothing to uplift the sagging morale that one has been struggling to shrug of!!
Yesterday, something interesting happened. As the sky was beginning to clear up after a heavy downpour, I saw a message from a neighbour saying that she had spotted a rainbow in the sky! The said person was at work, in a Google meet so she could only grab a quick shot of the sky from her desk.
Interestingly, I had just wrapped up a session of Mindfulness Meditation, as part of a women’s wellness initiative at Biocon, one of India’s largest bio pharmaceutical companies, when I made a dash for the balcony and witnessed this giant 🌈 in the sky.
The image that I’ve shared can never capture the sense of awe and wonder I felt within, especially that elusive child-like joy upon seeing the rainbow – it made me think how, in the mad rush to make a living we often lose it all too easily.
There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. The rainbow itself is enough though – nothing less than that.
As for the fleeting sense of joy and wonder, I can only say it’s all due to one single source, courtesy Mother Nature!!
It’s even more important now, I think, than ever before, in this day and age where gadgets rule and AI has come to capture our sensibilities, that we still have these moments that pull us out of the four walls of our homes and offices and let us out into the infinitesimal openness and serenity of the outdoors!
What a privilege it is to be alive and be a witness to that!!
Hope you feel better soon, Esha! Looking up and out at nature is something we all need more of, especially given how beholden we are to our gizmos and gadgets these days!
Surrounded by our walls and desks, we forget there is a beautiful world outside. If only we lift our heads up once in a while!