Sometimes we live our lives in a very insular manner. Insulating ourselves from all externals. This is quite like a closed room with a lot of glass windows. We may allow the light in- we cannot keep everything out; but we trap the warmth. This heats up the interiors, sometimes intolerably so.
It is all a question of the wavelength!
Have you ever entered a car parked in a sunny lot? Even half an hour heats up the car. And... then... change the weather outside. Let there be a downpour. You can see Nature's joy and ecstacy pouring down in a torrential series of exclaimation marks! Each drop lengthens till it contracts again to fall on the parched earth.
Have you ever seen a rain drop trace a question mark? Not unless it falls on a puddle of oil. And then, it leaves streaks of colour, vibrant and alive and ever-changing in the falling light. These colours further remind us of how beautiful life can really be.
Everything in Nature is interconnected- animate and even inanimate. Even if we try, being people islands does not work out. The energy must form an unbroken chain and continue to circulate. We must give freely... and recieve gracefully.
If we close ourselves to recieving but continue to give, we will soon deplete ourselves. Similarly if we donot recieve, what will we have to pass on? This flow makes competition unnecessary. It makes harmony a natural outcome of any logical relationship!
Open the windows... let some fresh air in. Recieve the light and release the heat. Grow. Help others grow. Love and share. Chlorophyll, the central pigment of life also cannot act in the absence of both light and air.
Moreover, the closed room will only build more and more carbondioxide! We are not able to totally contain and isolate a space... the oxygen of love comes smiling in reminding us of joy and life.
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3 comments:
In this ice-age of cold attitudes, if you want to plant your dreams and have them blossom, you have to be a glass-house. And hope that some day the ice would melt and you could let in some warm air through an open window.
If hope could melt the ice-read (cold attitude) we would have been submerged by now!!While shielding yourself and nurturing your dreams in your glass house you also need to give some space for your warmth to reach out and melt that ice- not to mention prevent breaking your own glass house.Unless your warmth touches the ice, it is unlikely to melt.Just by looking at the closed glass-house people can only interpret and draw inferences at the what and how questions!To understand and be understood, to grow and help others grow, we need to keep that vital channel not only open but flowing!
Both of you have a valid point... It may be Ice age but we need to thaw the ice and help all grow. When the temperature rises too much, we- inside the glass- will be the ones getting uncomfortable! As Quest points out... it also could shatter the glass.
so... open the windows... let some fresh air in...
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