Happiness is momentary like a life of a candle, somebody lights up a day for you and you are bright and you just can’t keep dreaming that you can be lite up and keep glowing forever. When the candle expects to be out there wanting to watch the whole world and letting the whole world look back, it should be ready to face the wind, the rain water drops even though it knows they are capable of switching of its light but that is what life is all about. You have no third option -its either "take risk try your luck, face challenges" or "stay inside the closed room and be safe until you melt down completely”.
With these thoughts in mind Daina sat in front of the Jesus with the candle in her hand, now her eyes were filled with tears. Suddenly she looked up to ask the God. Please tell me -What should I be? A candle which wants to be out there or the one which feels safe and calm inside the closed walls? Suddenly she broke and tears flowed down her cheeks and few drops traced the eye lashes, her long curvy nose and finally landed on the burning flame of the candle. All this happened even before she could open her eyes to see that the candle light went off.
She stood there shocked wondering!! Suddenly from the corner of her eyes she noticed a light approach her, a candle which light up her candle and she heard the voice of her friend saying “Don’t be afraid of darkness, because until you experience darkness you never know what having brightness and light around us feels like and we would have never thanked god for giving us light”
That kept her thinking further and the next minute she saw a image of herself in the reflection of the window pane as she walked through “If you are afraid to go out there thinking the candle light will be blown of due to wind and rain, what just happened in a closed room also has a capability to switch it off. If not by external interference, something like what happened here now we might end up being the own reason for the darkness around us. It just depends on how well you are equipped and covered around to save the flame and spark from wind, rain and any other external interference how strong and immune you are. Go out see the whole world and let the world watch you by going beyond this 4 side closed walls. You are not the only one out there who fear about darkness. So just go live your life, learn to take risk just go with the wind and make sure you are equipped to avoid the wind from blowing away you light. Don't worry about the flame going off, there are so many candle out there which will definitely light you up. But make sure you aren’t out there beyond a limit after which you have no friends, family and others , don’t go too far and leave the rest behind.
Stay in touch with your roots so that at the times of the last few moments you can still hope to stay light up for few more moments because the previously melted wax can re act as a source for the flame. All that I would like to finally tell you is don’t keep waiting for that brightest moment. The fact that you want brightest moments means that will be followed by not so bright or darker moments. With so many just bright candles around you, your surroundings will be brighter. Just make sure that when one other candle around you is switching off, just stay closer all that the other candle need is some warmth and assure the other candle you are there to light it up if something happens. Don’t let your self or the other candle stay off for too long. After a while even other candles will have a tough time to locate you, for now that you have been off for too long and invisible for too long to even remember you were once there among them”.
Happiness is what we define. We are happy if we do not come across anything that would make us sad. We are happy when people recognize us for our talent and accept us for what we are than define us based on what we cant be. And now that you are happy and you want the rest of your life to be as happy as you are now, some where in the corner of your mind you start fearing “what if this happy moments are not forever?”, “what if, what I have today is not there anymore for tomorrow or few days from now?”, “what if I won’t be able to handle the sudden absence of the reason for which I am now happy, what will I do when I am left with nothing to be happy about?” and a lot many more “What if’s!!” And instead of enjoying the happiness of today we think too ahead of that probable sad day and start loosing out the current moments of happiness. In a way good that you start accepting the fact that what we have today is not permanent, it just cannot remain for ever and its not always people accept you for what you are. But why lose out on today’s lovely moments..? If you really love being happy the way you are continue being happy, that makes you happier and you reach a stage where you just cant let go of things that you are happy about. Just wish from your heart -
"When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it!".
P.S: Candle light is one of my favorite topic and I’ve been trying to write a post on this topic but now after 3 years - I have finally come up with a right one I feel. I think this post makes justice for not posting for a long time and keeping away from here.
