Let me take a moment to Thank. To thank Life for its opportunities, blessings, surprises and challenges. To thank the Human Body for helping our minds adjust to external and environmental changes.To thank my Parents for all that they have done, which I cannot bring myself to reduce to a mere list. To thank my Grandparents for being who they are.
For those sudden dreams, which bring back to life, if only for a moment, those we have Loved and lost. This might be and IS very personal, but two days ago, I HAD A DREAM which featured my Grandfather's long ago voice, and I realised that not one bit of its texture had faded from my Memory. I don't remember what he said, I just remember that calm, kind, ever well-meaning voice, gently falling on my ear, like pearl on rich velvet, and it soothed and calmed me in the most complete way.
I thank the heart for all its physiological work and also for mirroring emotions...there is such a thing as heart-ache when you are feeling down, there is a feeling of distinct heart-sickness, when in Despair.
I thank those Friends who are silently encourage, loudly applaud, magnanimously share, soundly scold, earnestly listen, freely give and hold us in remembrance.
I thank the power of Rectification and Realisation, I thank Introspection. I thank Tears for they let us unburden those quietly pent up emotions. I thank Tears which let me celebrate those exquisite moments of Joy, when words and gestures fall short.
I thank Writers and Poets for telling us that they have been through what we are going through, and that others after us will experience much the same, despite ever-changing, rapidly swerving temporal and spatial contexts.
I thank Musicians for allowing us to transcend our transient problems, our grievous heartbreaks, our small joys...and elevating us to a world where language is indeed common...how many of us listen to songs of other languages, and still enjoy some of them without comprehending lyrics? And instrumental music is of the category where notes take over words and syllables and music breed magic.
I thank Quietness for the thinking time it forces us to accept. I thank Noise for allowing us to both appreciate itself and Quietness.
I thank Great Minds for inventing Instruments of Technology, Medicine, Machinery and hosts of things which are beneficial to Human Kind.
I thank Deep Thinkers, I thank Hearty Laughers, I thank Frank Faces, I thank the Open Hearted, I thank The Kind Souls, who perform altruistic tasks so freely, so quietly, so silently, every day, een this Very moment
I thank Smiles, for brightening up dismal days, I thank the Rain for balancing those Too Bright Days, I thank the Night for its lack of Light, I thank the Day for its Lack of Darkness.
I thank Pats on the Back, for being so encouraging, I thank Sympathy for being so understanding, I thank Warm Hugs for being so reassuring, so all-embracing, physically, emotionally and psychologically uplifting.
I thank Conversations, for giving me revealing Glimpses into the lives of others...for Conversations draw the curtains between people apart, if only for a while, before they often drop, and whether they stay apart or not depends on Friendship, on Rapport.
I Thank Food for nourishment, I thank Water for its innumerable uses.
Most of all, I Thank The Creator, the Nurturer, the Eternal Guiding Light, the Binder of the Universe, the promoter of Love and Tolerance.
For those sudden dreams, which bring back to life, if only for a moment, those we have Loved and lost. This might be and IS very personal, but two days ago, I HAD A DREAM which featured my Grandfather's long ago voice, and I realised that not one bit of its texture had faded from my Memory. I don't remember what he said, I just remember that calm, kind, ever well-meaning voice, gently falling on my ear, like pearl on rich velvet, and it soothed and calmed me in the most complete way.
I thank the heart for all its physiological work and also for mirroring emotions...there is such a thing as heart-ache when you are feeling down, there is a feeling of distinct heart-sickness, when in Despair.
I thank those Friends who are silently encourage, loudly applaud, magnanimously share, soundly scold, earnestly listen, freely give and hold us in remembrance.
I thank the power of Rectification and Realisation, I thank Introspection. I thank Tears for they let us unburden those quietly pent up emotions. I thank Tears which let me celebrate those exquisite moments of Joy, when words and gestures fall short.
I thank Writers and Poets for telling us that they have been through what we are going through, and that others after us will experience much the same, despite ever-changing, rapidly swerving temporal and spatial contexts.
I thank Musicians for allowing us to transcend our transient problems, our grievous heartbreaks, our small joys...and elevating us to a world where language is indeed common...how many of us listen to songs of other languages, and still enjoy some of them without comprehending lyrics? And instrumental music is of the category where notes take over words and syllables and music breed magic.
I thank Quietness for the thinking time it forces us to accept. I thank Noise for allowing us to both appreciate itself and Quietness.
I thank Great Minds for inventing Instruments of Technology, Medicine, Machinery and hosts of things which are beneficial to Human Kind.
I thank Deep Thinkers, I thank Hearty Laughers, I thank Frank Faces, I thank the Open Hearted, I thank The Kind Souls, who perform altruistic tasks so freely, so quietly, so silently, every day, een this Very moment
I thank Smiles, for brightening up dismal days, I thank the Rain for balancing those Too Bright Days, I thank the Night for its lack of Light, I thank the Day for its Lack of Darkness.
I thank Pats on the Back, for being so encouraging, I thank Sympathy for being so understanding, I thank Warm Hugs for being so reassuring, so all-embracing, physically, emotionally and psychologically uplifting.
I thank Conversations, for giving me revealing Glimpses into the lives of others...for Conversations draw the curtains between people apart, if only for a while, before they often drop, and whether they stay apart or not depends on Friendship, on Rapport.
I Thank Food for nourishment, I thank Water for its innumerable uses.
Most of all, I Thank The Creator, the Nurturer, the Eternal Guiding Light, the Binder of the Universe, the promoter of Love and Tolerance.
