Humans, Emotions and Experiences

                               Humans are emotional beings. Aristotle said that man is a social animal, but I think that he is a social animal only because he is an emotional animal. Well, no challenge to all time dear Aristotle, but I am sure that no human has ever existed on this planet whose life had been without the experience of any good or bad emotion. The sweetest of us like the Alice or Emma have plenty of them but even some most dreadful of us will also not be devoid of them.
                               A human heart is such a nice fellow as it is the harbouring ground for every emotion. Every emotion and all the experiences with emotions get absorbed by our Heart. The testimony to it is that when you propose a girl you dearly love; I bet that your heart will pound like never before. Or on the sad side, if your love lies, your heart will definitely cry. So the first joy you will feel will be in your heart and also if the pain strikes you, that will strike nowhere but at your heart. The heart never deceives; it absorbs every thing from the delight of being loved to the misery of having been deceived in love.
                              The thing is that every emotion will entail some experience. Good, bad or worse but you will have an experience, which perhaps you will never forget. This is the beauty and also may be the bane of experiences, that you never, ever forget them. Experiences built upon feelings and emotions shall remain with you till your body breaths the last sigh. This is human, none can escape from it. Material losses and gains will be forgotten but not the losses and gains made in the more subtle form deep inside your heart. But I think it will be the only treasure of our human life, the more you have experienced the better is your title to claim a life well lived. As my good elder brother sometime said to me that being young or being old is not a matter of age. I agree that it is a matter of experiences. I may be older to an old person if my experiences in and with life have been more diverse than him. However, both hindsight and foresight tell me that experiences are not and will not be good only, they will also be painful and at times cruel and brutal. They might be so great that you will be simply on the top of the world and they might be so bitter so as to leave you weeping somewhere in the unknown corner of this world. But that is what human life is, full of emotions, full of myriad experiences.
                        You will cry, you will laugh and then you will also die but make sure that before your life says good bye to you, you have accumulated enough treasure so as to not complain on death-bed that death has betrayed you in wanting to have you so young.

The Sun & The Life

              It is 7’o’ Clock in the morning here at Nainital. The Sun is up in its full fervour and the sunshine is coming right to my table through the window. I can feel the warmth of this sunshine on my face and body. Looking at the Sun is so amazing and refreshing despite of the fact that I have been looking it for many years. I have looked at the Sun while going to school as a small kid, I have seen this sun while playing sports in adolescence, I have seen this Sun through the window of the air plane while flying 33000 feet above the surface of the Earth and on innumerable occasions under innumerable circumstances. This Sun in summers has troubled me and invited my wrath but this is the same Sun which in winters, while sitting motionlessly in its shine has allowed me to feel that this world is simply beautiful. In this long span of time, there is absolutely no change which I can notice in the Sun or its wonderful vigour. Even today the Sun is Sun, shining with all its gaiety. The world has gone a sea change. Globalisation, trade, global warming, climate change, terrorism, conflicts, wars, harmony and love, but, no change in the Sun. The Sun is there since then and will be there forever. It is the source of life on this planet earth. It sustains life of all the creatures, be it the mighty Whale fish at the bottom of the ocean or the tiny ants in my room always busy in accumulating food.
              All can change but not the rising of the Sun every morning at the dawn and its setting down every evening at the dusk. This constitutes a full day. ‘A Day’, seems to be so normal to all of us because a simple day gives no reason to feel special or to feel happy about. After all, in a normal human life we live through thousands of days and number of years and thus each day can not be special. Except for few days, we don’t feel anything unique about each day which passes. Each day comes and goes, the Sun comes and goes and we work tirelessly to make good of our human life. We work, we eat, and we sleep on each day. Days and days and even years pass by in such a manner and we hardly realise that each one of us has his or her doom’s day too. A day shall come for each one of us when we will see the Sun for the last time. That day would be a final finale and despite the best efforts and most benign intentions the life will not be kind enough to let us have the same warmth and liveliness of this Sun which we enjoy every day. Perhaps that day will be the day, when we will realise the value of ‘A Day’ itself. That day will be an experience most unique. That day will reveal the ultimate value of cherishing the Sunrise and rejoicing in the Sunset.

                                      The Sunset as i once saw.