55 Fiction#7: Friendly Gesture?

She scrolled down the long list… one end of her lip tucked beneath her teeth. Her long hair framed her face beautifully. She drummed her fingers on table. Her scroll stopped -she saw a particular name. Her head tilted little right as she tried to recollect- hmm… we studied in first standard together. Add –“friend”?

24 and learning..

Birthdays come and go.. life keeps getting interesting. =)

1. Learnt to save and learnt to spend
2. Have been out of cash and have had excess of cash
3. Have slapped and have been slapped
4. Flunked  and  Aced  an exam
5. Found good and bad friends
6. Was taken advantage of and took advantage
7. Have been shouted at and have been praised in public
8. Disappointed some people at times and made some people proud
9. Have been let down by many and have let down a few
10. Misunderstood people and was misunderstood by people
11. Learned to get angry and learned to calm down
12. Have laughed at and have been laughed at
13. Took care of someone close and was taken care of by someone close
14. Shared my secrets and kept secrets for few
15. Have been ignored and have ignored
16. Took and gave advice
17. Refused a job offer and took up a job offer
18. Laughed and cried uncontrollably irrespective of the surroundings
19. Won and lost sports matches
20. Made and lost a few friends
21. Respected people and was respected
22. Made use of some opportunities and lost a few
23. Talked my heart out to some and have lent my ear to a few
24. Have been embarrassed and have been proud of who I am       

Butterfly mind

A butterfly is a tiny beautiful life of million colours. It forms different shades as it flutters by. It has no fixed destinations. It sits on what it pleases and flies when its interest ceases.

What different is our mind, beautifully coloured with a zillion thoughts? Fluttering in different directions? Restless at one time and focused as it rests. Moving from one thought to another one interest to another? Sometimes lazing like a butterfly pupa munching on leaves waiting for that moment to let wings adorn it. To turn from a cylindrical single coloured mass to a colourful butterfly with ability to fly as it pleases? Don’t we too wait for artistic thoughts, creative bends, that right mood to think important things through?

Like little kids who try to hold the butterfly by clipping its wings- we try to hold our mind to one thing. We try to focus. We hold it on. Like the delicate colourful wings of a butterfly our thoughts get tarnished by the pinch of the hold. We lose the focus. We become weak. Like a butterfly with damaged wings our mind rests paralyzed.

Letting go is all it takes to let you mind free. Like a little butterfly it will fly in different directions. It will shift places, take positions, sit near the light or sit in the dark. Fly around a flower or settle on a wall. But eventually the mind will rest. It will come and sit on your life -gaining the ability to think as you please. It will be calm if you ask it to be. If will be creative and fly off to return to the same place if you train it to do so. It will remain grounded if you teach it to be humble. It will be flamboyant and flash its colour if you pamper it too much. It will move in herds and choose colourful company or it will fly alone.

But all this will happen only if you let it fly and not clip its wings. If you don’t drag it down by burdening it with unnecessary extras. Like a butterfly the mind needs to be light. The thoughts like shades of colour should add beauty to the destination where the mind like a butterfly rests.

Mind like a butterfly should add beauty as it flutters by!