Wow!

RGS
So beautiful. Looks like I am fortunate to be the first to comment. I am so glad.
I had this really WOW moment ONLY two times in my life. Unforgetable.
Thanks for writing this.
Today two time you have made my day better thank you.

 

What happened after we grew up?

well ,our ego grows with us and our innocence is hidden behind it like a beautiful face behind a veil................
in every man there is a child
but why is that child hiding?:rotfl

 

RGS, a very good question. This has occurred to me many times. And this is what I had written about in one of my snippets "Thank God it was me". Somewhere in the business of life, we forget to stop and smell the roses. "We have no time to stand and stare". Obviously we stop noticing the beautiful things around us. Why just Nature or its beauty, how often does it happen that a familiar building that we see everyday suddenly vanishes, another springs up in its place and we don't even notice till one fine day we sit up and wonder which building was there and which one has gone missing.

It is not until we decide to slow down our pace of life or are forced to do so by circumstances that we literally find our feet on terra firma once again, hear the birds chirping around us and come back to Nature. 3 years of being grounded got me back in touch with the beauty around me. That has been wiped out by 2 months of intense worry. Though occasionally when I have stood by the window, I have been delighted to hear the same birds reappearing with the arrival of winter. :-D

But believe me, the delight one feels when one rediscovers Nature is just as intense later on as when one was a child. It is just a matter of having a mind free of worries to sit back, relax and enjoy all that is offered to us.

 

Dear rgs,

Childhood is a phase with no worries, tensions, stress, no regrets for the past.....only present matters in childhood. A child say WOW when he or she is happy. That's all matters at that point. For us that wow is engulfed in the rat race....,duties tension, stress of life, past, future make WOW very feeble. How to get it back? Unless we change a lot, change our life style a lot..... it may not be possible. At least at this point of life the word WOW has disappeared. We do feel happy when our child smiles at us...that's all.If our loved ones are happy we are happy. But not WOW feeling. Am I sounding very pessimistic? Trying to be realistic..... Trying since afternoon how to put it in words. Whether succeeded or not I do not know.

Syamala

 

My dear Rgs,

We could have this kind of feelings throughout our life once we cultivate the attitude of being amused by little things.
The regular reading of Bhagavad Gita keeps me grounded to be able to appreciate and admire what I have.Gradually it helps me to change my perspective of life.

It reminds me the incidents from past when we used to go to watch comedy plays and the humor in the play used to make me laugh longer than everybody else in the hall. My husband used to get embarrassed more than anything by my long lasting and loud laughter and warned me not to accompany me next time if I did not stop laughing and I used to tell him that we had paid to get amused so I wanted to use it to its best benefits.

when we have family get together my sister-in-law and I are laughing for even small funny occurrences and everybody teases us as laughing queens....we do not care as long as we are happy....

I am sorry if my post is long and off the track.


Love,
Bhavna

 

Hi RGS,

I really liked each and every line of your poem so much :bowdown
Its so true that once we grow up, we loose ourselves to whatever!

I think there were many "wow" moments in my childhood, especially, each time we learnt something and were able to do things on our own. Now Im not sure I remember the "wow" moments.

This reminded me of a story which I have come across many times in mail forwards and have also read it here in IL. Though the moral of this story is about "Dont jump to conclusions", I have a different take on this in relation to the topic you have initiated.

http://www.indusladies.com/forums/snippets-of-life-non-fiction/125622-who-is-blind.html#post1652463

As can be seen in this story, the boy who gets his vision after surgery appreciates each and everything that he sees, and many of us take things for granted (and you have already written a topic about taking things for granted)

"Learn to unlearn" - I think as a grownup, we should adopt this wherever possible to make things click seamlessly.

I have gone completely astray from the original post, but topic was such that I couldn't help but think about various angles attached to the "wow" moments !!

A good one RGS!