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Wednesday, August 10, 2011

A Cruise with the Clouds



Clouds watching can be fun…..all the more if they are in the state of constantly changing landscapes, as if they are trying to sail away towards new lands, new people, taking you along with them as they smile and float away.

It so happened on one of the usual monotonous drive to work that the eyes struck to fluffy fairy floss on the sky from a hemisphere of my windshield. Gaze transfixed at the light oozing out, I ruminated as to when was the last time I saw them, they looked like scriptures in motion each changing forms, strange animals, extinct dinosaurs, love struck cupid and lazing whales …all portending various forms of my moods into fancy nothings. I cannot put into so many words but the life is going through a low phase, a restless transition.











In sight were billowy masses of white and gray against the bluest of blue sky .It changed the way I was feeling; just gazing at them gave me solace as if those clouds reminded me that the world above and the world below actually make up one world. It is this symbolism that helped me examine my life from a higher perspective.


Isn’t it amazing how clouds can fit into any mood or match any season? I wonder if they could take all my pains, lifting, wafting, lost in the blue. , quietly cruising the celestial seas, wandering aimlessly out of my view. I sat in reverie, cleaning my mind of the day’s mist.













They gave me the lightning flash of inspiration reiterating that beyond the clouds the sun’s still there. The silver lining of the cloud fascinated me, filled in me the hope to weather the lower ebbs of life and guiding me to the apophasis nature of the divine the unknowable, which eludes the human understanding. And I was alive again and humming

“ Baadlon ke paar shayad aur koi aasmaan hoga ….

Main hawa ke paro pe kahan ja raha hoo kahaaan…”

Clouds can make us feel whimsical and dreamy, or they can be oppressive, frightening, and threatening. They can be mysterious, or can be lazy.
Clouds may be a harbinger of angelic messages to come.


Go and find your cloud today?