The ‘Sun’ in my face

Today , it happened in the morning when I was keeping my clothes in the wardrobe, suddenly a bright flash of sunlight fell inside the wardrobe, lighting up the space inside, I turned back and looked towards the window from where the sunlight was entering my room, engulfing it in its arms. Then it struck me that the year 2020 is already in its 10th month and though this COVID 19 has literally put a break on the activities of us humans, but the universe and nature is moving at its pace, it is that month of the year when sun starts entering my house from this side of the window! We are already nearing the end of the year! As if it was just yesterday when the lockdown started , it is already October! I looked at the sun and bowed towards it, and thanked sun for being there , always, year after year. I looked at my painting, my Casio tone, my study table and my tomato plant pot, yes everything was a washed in the gleams of sunshine and an autumnal sunshine is so precious, my heart sank at the thought that I will not be able to make full use of it due to the lockdown. This year 2020 has made me realise one thing for sure,  that it is the common, everyday blessings of our common everyday lives for which we should be particularly grateful. They are the things that fill our lives with comfort and our hearts with gladness -- just the pure air to breathe and the strength to breath it; just warmth and shelter and home ,just plain food that gives us strength; and today I suddenly realized about this bright sunshine embracing my room in its warm hug; I came near my window, and thought that this  bright sun in my room has  brought  back, not light alone, but new zeal and hope, and freshness to me, this sun is so benevolent it sheds its equal ray on palatial houses as well as on slums, all must be feeling its warmth and rejoicing in its existence. No dear moon, you are a cosmetic company, my real companion is ‘Sun’ as it tells me to always keep a bright spot in my heart for the people around me as they might need a bit of sunshine!!

“As the sun shines I will make hay

To keep failure at bay

For there remaineth a pay

For my honest toil each day.”

I glanced at my study table, at my casio tone, at my painting and at my tomato plant, they looked happy to me, I left my room thinking, “Oh great! I never recognized sunshine shining me, within me.”