The Caged Bird

He showed me a sketch. I could hardly interpret it but he insisted that I speak out whatever I felt about it.
" This is fire in your mind. The fire of anxiety and uncertainity. But behind it is........hhhhhhmmm is it a room?"
"Its the CAGE!! Its the cage of your mind.I tried hard and was able to open the door but behind it was the cage. This is the culprit which prevents you from enjoying your present. You constantly wish to be happy in the future but who knows what might happen tomorrow. Trust me opening the door of your mind was a tiresome job what would I do with this cage of barbed wires surrounding your mind?"
That one conversation shook me. Sometimes you spend year after year searching your own self so as to know who you are and what you want? Then as continuous self absorbance leads to disillusionment; you come under the impression that you have started understanding your own self quiet a lot.You go about lecturing your fellowmen about the greatness of introspection when suddenly such a convesation comes as a jolt to your thoughts. Sometimes we take years in understanding a person while for some its just a glance which narrates each and everything.

When conversations of such intensity happen between two persons it results in building up of mutual adoration, which in my case was quiet a lot. He was sucessful in breaking the barbed cage of my mind and in releasing my true self...........
Its just so wonderful that strangers who have entered your life just a few days back start affecting you much more than tho
se with whom you have spent your life.
I can reall a few lovely lines in hindi which fabulously describe this condition

बादल को छूने की चाहत तो थी

उड़ने का अरमान नही था मगर

दे दिया मुझको एक अजनबी आसमा

मेरे पैरों से मेरी ज़मी छीन कर

This free bird is now struggling to create a niche in this vast world. The bird sometimes yearns for her cage which had made her numb about the joys and sorrows this world has to offer. But the bird knows that her liberator wants to see her lying high.
That was the part where the liberator showed his greatness by showering the bird with the blessing of freedom. But how can we forget to see to the plight of our poor bird who is now vulnerable and left on the mercies of the world. The question I want to ask is ;" Is the liberator's duty over? Was his role just to shoo the bird off from that horrid cage . Shouldn't he have given the bird some more care ,and made her feel secure ,before leaving her to manage the nasty ways of the world? What exactly is 'freedom' in this case? The bird broke off one cage but was not taught how not to get trapped again ? Will she forever depend on the mercies of liberators to break off cages????????????
I just wish these questions do not remain unanswered!!!

Loneliness

‘Loneliness’Often sitting on my bed, I stare outside that lovely window and see a world so full of wonders. In the deep loneliness of my heart I started feeling the tinge of beauty. Now even amidst a huge crowd my soul craves for this mate.
I can recall ‘Daffodils’, I studied it in school for sure. But it’s now that a considerable amount of time has passed, that I can actually enjoy its beauty & have realized that nature is intoxicating (I mean it possesses intoxicating beauty, stop wandering in your mind). What is required is what God has endowed to us in ample amounts………’Imagination’.

What is required is to surrender your self to the supreme forces of Mother Nature and then see the ecstasy you experience. I really don’t know why am I writing all this? Some questions have their beauty till the time they are unanswered. The human habit of continuous explanation leads only to creation of futile things which the modern world terms as books. No, I am not against books but the modern way of publishing enormous chunks of papers. Quality has been long back replaced by gigantic quantities. And what is expected from an individual is to cram this up, vomit out the facts on a piece of paper and finally acquire another bit of paper (popularly known as the certificate) and march ahead.

Somewhere down the line we are compromising on the aspect of imagination. Rather suppressing and choking up the young imaginative minds by the loads of school bags and ambitions. ‘Ambitions’? Amused by the mention of this term? But this is one of the main culprit ruining the little young minds. Everyone wants an Albert Einstein in their home but they fail to realize two main facts. Firstly, that genius are born and not created. Secondly and most importantly that even Albert Einstein failed!
Humanity will progress if people stop joining this mice race (even rats are more adventurous) and accept themselves as they are. This inferiority complex is leading us no where. We have accepted that a person getting high scores in exams is a better individual than the one with low scores. From where this unsaid protocol has risen is still unknown but it has affected everyone’s lives.
It’s high time that we give complete freedom to every individual to lead life as per their own capabilities and creativity.