Kabhi kisi ko mukammal jahaan
nahin milta
Kahin zameen toh kahin
aasmaan nahin milta
~Nida Fazli
Roughly translated these lines mean:
No one ever gets a perfect
world
Someone doesn't get the earth,
someone the sky
This is perhaps the happiest
time of the year in general but for some reason it makes me more and more
reflective and melancholy every year. I think of the things that could have
been and the things that might be lost someday... I guess I could instead think
of all the lovely things that have come about and all the wonderful things that
might be in store for me.
To be honest, the last year
was much, much better than I could have ever hoped for in one respect... and it
inclines me far more positively toward the coming year. Yes, other
areas of my life could do with the same good fortune but like the famous
Hindi couplet goes, no one ever gets everything... one thing or the
other is always missing... I guess I need to count the blessings that I do have
rather than focus on the missing bits. Life could have been far less kind to me
than it has been and it would be churlish of me not to recognise this
kindness... flowing to me from the universe... perhaps we are all given certain
kinds of natures that find fulfilment in certain kinds of goals or
accomplishments... and it seems to me that the universe has pulled me in a
direction that is fitting for who I am... or how I am... I could question why I
have to be this way and not like everyone else so I could find happiness in the
things that everyone finds happiness in... but that is a meaningless train of
thought...At this time of the year, I need to acknowledge the fitness of things
in their incompleteness... I might not have a perfect world as indeed no
one does... but I sure have been blessed with a world that is near perfect
for me... and I need to acknowledge that that is no small thing... and not
given to everyone...
posted by Sylvia D'souza at 1:53 pm
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