PRESENCE v/s Absence
A universal truth that none of us can ignore, is that nothing lasts forever. Whatever exists today would demnish sometime tomorrow; sooner or later. First thing that comes to our mind when we think of something that wouldn’t exist later is ; “absense of that person or thing” and this absence makes us feel week and helpless, while all of us survive through it some of us live through it with difficulty and others sail by with strong will power and acceptance of truth.
I was yet to decide on my topic of the day for the blog and couldn’t really find anything that made a significant impact untill I completed my ritual for past few days. When I bow at the holy place where the book “Shri Guru Granth Saheb ji” is kept I felt content and was filled with peace, smile came naturally, what I noticed was that the daily ritual had been performed and the book was now shifted to shayan kaksh as per daily routine, the physical absence of the book from that place didn’t make difference to what I felt while the book was present. This is what came as learning for the day. This might come across as tough to understand and follow and I Myself don’t know how to implement my learning but since I have noticed it today I ought to acknowledge it.
When we are part of various relations be it blood relations, distant relations, friends, professional relations or any other momentaary contact with a person we mark our presence in there lives. Sooner or later we get far away from all of these including the distance that Death brings to our materialistic body. While we feel the absence of many a people in life, but for those few great people who did things differently and were not just part of a mob we always feel the presence even after there sould has departed. All relations don’t end with death of body but some do due to lack of time, misunderstandings that we don’t attempt to sort and many other reasons.
Just ask yourself a question when you wouldn’t be there, what is it that you would leave behind? Your absence or PRESENCE?
Manisha Dawar