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Oftentimes we reflect on our lives and wonder how we came to be at a certain crossroad or a path, how we ended where we are today. This may apply to anything in life, be it career, marriage, personal decisions, choices we have made and crises we have lived through. Isn’t a path just that? A means of getting from one place to another, made up of faces and events, one baby step after another.
In the path of our lives, we don’t have the luxury of seeing or forecasting where our footsteps may lead us in a certain path that we have chosen to walk. Every decision we take or a choice we make, leads us to more paths and so on, until by the end of our days, our life is one continuous thread of paths, all sewn to make the final trail.
Now, isn’t this the rhythm of life? Isn’t this how a perfect life is supposed to be? Lot of people may live with the impression that a perfect life is a long-term goal achieved through hoops and loops, searching for the right moment, accumulating a bank balance, nesting a huge mansion, possess brands and so on and so forth – an unending desire to gain more and an unrelenting search for that elusive ‘happiness’.
What about now? What about this moment in time? What about this second where we are sitting in our kitchen drinking coffee with our loved ones, what about this moment of cuddling next to our loved ones watching TV or what about this minute when your children are talking with us about their school life, friends and concerns? Isn’t this normalcy and isn’t normalcy perfect!!
We need to remember that we can’t make everyone happy in our lives. We choose our priorities and we go after them. We have to let people go and this is perfectly fine – be it a friend or a relation. We have to let the past remain in the past. Everyone can be a part of our journey, but only a few can remain until the end, even if it is a family member. No guilt!
I’ve lived, I’ve loved, I’ve lost, I’ve missed, I’ve trusted, I’ve hurt, I’ve made mistakes, but most of all, I’ve learned. And I’ve learned that ‘Perfect life is all about creating our perfect moments.’
Life turns dreams upside down,
Faces of friends follow in sunshine,
Shadows but melt away, in dark,
Voices wag on a back turned in pain
Talk I realize, is nothing but cheap,
Heart knows no evil, smiles in repose,
Mind in symphony, courage in veins
Seize dreams second time around.
~Alima Kanumilli~
Copyrighted May 10, 2013
What a wondrous feeling….
The quite of the silver night,
Calm resonating in the air,
Enveloped in my love’s arms,
Steady beat of his heart,
Rhythm of life ahead,
Indeed a wondrous feeling…
Satiated in the embrace of love!
~Alima Kanumilli~
Copyrighted May 10, 2013
It’s so sad. So very sad, how plastic and artificial life has become. It keeps getting harder and harder to find the real things – real feelings, real smiles, real relationships, real friends, real love, real body parts…
It seems that the more technologically advanced humans get, the more isolated we seem to become. It is really alarming how we spend our entire lifetime doing all kind of activities and yet we don’t seem to be getting any closer to whom we really are inside!
I’ve never being a material girl. I’ve never lusted for big houses, brands, expensive jewelry or fast cars. I do love my vices though, with a passion – books and clothes and these shopping sprees range from Barnes and Nobles to Macys to Ross.
I love being on social forums yet I treasure those chats I have in person with my children, sans technology. I don’t need an IPhone to schedule an appointment with my husband, but I rely on spontaneity to take us on a walk together. Though I love reading opinions on life from different walks of the world, I have the common sense to reserve judgment, taxing god’s given brains to think for them.
There seems to be a regression in progression. Competition replaced good old sportsman spirit. Jealousy and greed take precedence over honest friendships and relationships. The lust to excel one over the other, takes the parents away from listening to what their children really want and/or need. The hustle bustle of man made hectic gadget life, seems to mute our vocal chords.
I am enthralled as the next person, with a gadget in my life. But I’ve learned not to forget the genuine moments in life. As my husband constantly reminds me, “be in the moment”, whether it is two minutes or two hours, that is what’s more important in keeping the communication lines open, giving your time to humans rather than machines and letting know those important people in our lives are just that, important!
Measured in quantity, weighed in $$ and compared in lineage desperately needs to become measured in humanity, weighed in attention and compared in humility. Simple, easy and technologically free!
And I love stopping to hug my husband (should he get that lucky ;)) and children or friends, as much as I love stopping to smell that coffee in my kitchen!! Sensual and pure pleasure!!!
