Missing colours of the rainbow
Today I feel like writing after so many days...I don’t know what will I be writing here; but it somehow feels right to pour out my emotions today. Today, all my past memories are rushing before my eyes, so why not simply write them down?
When does a rainbow occur in the sky? When there is rain as well as sun. It needs both of them. So if I can say that the rain represents pain or sorrow and the sun is like happiness or optimism, then the rainbow represents those incidents or moments in life that occurred at the juncture of pain and happiness and coloured your existence. Like someone with tears in their eyes and a smile on their face.
There are very few moments we feel like there is full rainbow in our life. We have our own sun shine and rain and rainbows as well, but when you look back, you will find that most of the times the rainbow was missing a colour. What do I mean by this statement? When I rewound my memories, I could see rainbows, but every time I saw a rainbow, there was something missing. When I got good marks in 10th or 12th, there was the tension of admission in good college for higher education, when I completed my engineering there was confusion about the way ahead, when I completed my Post Graduation, there was fear regarding my career, when I got placed there was the tension about my future job and so on. This is not just about the education, but whenever I achieved something or won an award, there was a moment of satisfaction followed by emotions about consistency, feelings of ‘I could have performed better’ and there appeared a rainbow albeit, with a missing colour.
I don’t know whether this is the case with me or everybody - that at the time of extreme joy, I miss out on something। This can be fear of the future, emotions, past memories, my loved ones or my friends... There are very few moments those gave me the joy of full rainbow in sky. Is this true with everybody that they miss something or someone, while having a colourful sky in their life? I don’t know...but I do.
Hide and Seek places
Every individual must dream. It doesn’t matter if those dreams are realistic or not, possible to achieve or not… Through these dreams you learn to find missing pieces of your soul and learn to lose your way in your thoughts. This is like playing ‘Hide and Seek’ with yourself. Sometimes your soul hides somewhere. You forget everything while seeking it out. When you finally find it in something, you realize you’ve discovered something unique about yourself…
These places to hide and to seek are different for different individuals. If a couple find out that they have some of these hide and seek places in common then they start to understand each other, start to share their pain and joys, find a common thread between themselves and they come closer to each other. However if these hide and seek places are different for the couple (which is true in most of the cases) then they should admire each others’ places. For example, by listening to a particular song, the man goes into a trance and starts thinking about the past. BUT it is not necessary that the strings in his wife’s mind will vibrate with the same frequency by listening to that same song.
Now, to discover these hide and seek places belonging to each other is journey of a lifetime and that’s why marriages are usually made to last a lifetime. It’s fun to know each other. These places can be anything- a song, music piece, a movie, CD, a book, a sport, a stamp, match box, shirt, skirt, handkerchief, TV serial, computer game, jewelry, scent, a line, greeting, a poem, story, a place, literally anything… Sometimes you find out one of the places where your partner forgets herself is a poem. You should sit next to her, listen to the poem from her, try to understand the poem and enjoy the moment. The delight you will see in her eyes will be heavenly. Both must try to know each others’ hide and seek places and try to enjoy the discovery with each other.
These places should not be made fun of. Rather one should look to respect, admire and value the other half’s hide and seek places…
Thanks Kurush for helping me edit this post... :)
