Nothing.... Yet everything....

For my brother.... My solid support....

For Sunil.... A True Friend....

I was clicking pictures and taking videos on my recent trip to Mathura. I was standing on the banks of Yamuna river and my camera was fully zoomed in the water. I could only see grey picture of the water.

Nothing else.... Just grey picture from on end of the screen to the other....

It was nothing....

Then I zoomed out. slowly I started seeing a few birds, then boats, then the other side of the river, then the plants on the other side, then people and eventually the horizon....

It was everything....

So what is everything? And what is nothing? Is it reality in itself? or our perception of reality? Just because I have zoomed the camera to a point in the river, does that mean nothing else exists? Does that mean I have the right to think nothing else exists? I know you might be thinking this is a silly question.

But lets think about it in context with our life.

We are so very focussed on our tasks at hand, our priority number 1, we sometimes completely forget there are other things that do exist. We ignore some of the most important things like our own self.

Right now while you are reading this, take 20 seconds to think back how many hours in the last week did you spend only and only for yourself? I dont mean work, family compulsion (yes, I know a lot of people who spend time with family coz THEY HAVE TO), forced parties and social gatherings, unwanted trips (just coz everyone is going), etc.

Life has become complex to such an extent that we dont even know what would we like to do if we had time. What brings real peace and happiness to us.

How many times you genuinely wanted to go to that concert, go for a swim session, go for that 10km ride with your friends just for a cup of tea, sit and watch a movie which is not necessarily your favourite and not worry about cooking, go and join those salsa classes (without thinking how will I manage time), to go and sit in the see-saw (YES, u read it right), go for that giant wheel in the fun fair about 10 mins from home, read news paper completely in detail, listen to your favourite music (all the songs in the playlist), read ur old greeting cards & letters, just sleep on the bed and look at the fan.....????

We reach a point in this kind of life where we feel my life is nothing. My cousin is very content, she has a fabulous degree, a bright career, supportive parents, ofcourse with a few challenges in life, but overall her life is what we can in general say "good".

Yesterday she was telling me "I am bored, life is no more interesting.... Its not rocking" To which I said "go home and put down on a piece of paper how would a "rocking" day of yours look like?"

She was not able to. She didnt know what she really really wanted. Because her camera in life is zoomed so much that she is only thinking about things that are on Red Alert or Priority no 1.

This is the situation with most of us. We all think "My life is boring.... Its nothing...."

Is it REALLY nothing????

Or is it that we need to do something to change from "nothing" to "everything"????