Saturday, November 8, 2014

In the pursuit of faith...

  She went to the beach everyday. But today was different. The entire beach was decorated with serial lights to celebrate the Independence Day. The secretariat, the Gandhi statue and the Kargil Memorial were shining happily in their new attire. It looked like they had a beauty competition between themselves. She imagined that the waves were swallowed by jealousy as the crowd which came every day to appreciate their beauty, was suddenly attracted by those buildings. "It wont last long!", She could hear them smirk. On that note, they continued to rise and fall against the rocks nonchalantly.

  She admired the beach. Yes, there was no sand here to dig holes or build sand castles. But she adored the neat dikes, the stone benches and the pavement where people walked and jogged. She stood there inhaling the immense beauty of the beach. Sometimes the vastness of the sea stunned her. She told herself, "May be this here is the God, the Faith the world talks about!" She never understood faith. She asked herself several times how to develop faith in someone or something. But when she was here in the beach, she was able to embrace faith.

   In this happiness and peace she saw him. She admired him for his faith in life, for his faith in god. When she was not at the beach, she found Faith in him. Her heart swelled and collapsed with every wave. She missed him a lot. In him she found the tranquility, the serenity and the power of the Sea! She looked at the infinite sea, the supreme power and thanked Her for bringing him in her life. She began to cherish the distance between them that made her love him even more.