Made with love and hard work, painted in beautiful way... here I was destined to be a “BENCH”. With the reality test... I was sent to this world of people… I was sent to this park. Placed in center of a park… where there was huge tree…covering half of my structure. Enjoyed the initial days at this park where my presence was to be noticed…and my usage was pure on a beautification. Was there to make my presence and to be noticed.
Everything was new... a new world to be explored… was proud people needed me... sometime to relax... sometime to sit and chat…the winds... the breeze… the sun…. the moon everyone was my friend… though sun scrotched me sometime but moon was always there to cool me up….I was stationary but happy as I was free…laughters of children amused me… giggling laughing…. Neonates laying on me laughing by responding to others….and me and my tree, which was there to provide me shadow. Always loved this happiness, innocence and purity…
Time passes quickly or may be happiness is always limited to time we want to be never ending …. Children grew… and became young…. They no longer needed to place their small hands on me to start walking... but yeah they needed me when they had to come with their friends… to twitch each other... pull their ears... or to discuss their teenage problems and dilemmas. But I was happy …the thing u can’t discuss somewhere else …can always discuss with me and their friends... The friendships and new relations which were sometime building sometime breaking… new arrivals in life and new relations which were building up in their lives…
I was honored to share the tears of a broken heart…a broken relation... but there was something within me which was getting mossed… probably it rained heavily in those years… but I was strong as my tree was always there with me to shed its leaves and give sun its way…. I always liked a human who can at least share and protect me... May be he was alone in a new world of his own (though always covered with people) … then life changes……
My tree grew old…. I also entered into a reasonable age to be rottened… but park management said “That is my bloom period”… my other benches were moved to different parks… some were reconditioned… some due to their inner voices …were moved to theme park… I also grew but now I was placed on other side of tree….. Now I was supporting the tree as it was getting old…. I was proud to be helping my beloved tree, who always supported me whenever I was getting mossed… but I was worried for my tree... my only protection…
Till that time I learnt … these humans are a self obsessed people…. They just needed me and my tree. to take advantage and go…. Life is unfair or fair? I don’t know but…God says He made humans with heart to have emotions and mind to think…. Did He make us with a heart to???? Humans say NO…Then why I was feeling the pain... Did he give me MIND??? Humans say NO... Then why I was thinking that the person sitting on me currently is not innocent and committed a crime of breaking the rule of nature... the rule of sincerity... the rule of breaking relations...
And then one day they will cut my tree to make a new bench or may be burnt it to make a coal or may be made a house from it … I was fixed with nut and bolts… as if I was running…. The human who always come to sit on me … is leaving soon …may be in a year or half…
And here I was... stationary….. Stagnant... but I didn’t waste my life…. I learnt two most important things from life ….
Firstly, humans don’t have heart and mind like us…. They have stationary hearts covered with snow and plastered...
And secondly, life is like a bench where people can sit for a short time, will benefit from you and WILL LEAVE!!! No one will protect you... beacuase there is a life of your own courage... one you will be mossed and rotten and you will be burnt to ashes!!!!
Dedicated to my family, my friend and all those people who appeared in my life!!!!
Everything was new... a new world to be explored… was proud people needed me... sometime to relax... sometime to sit and chat…the winds... the breeze… the sun…. the moon everyone was my friend… though sun scrotched me sometime but moon was always there to cool me up….I was stationary but happy as I was free…laughters of children amused me… giggling laughing…. Neonates laying on me laughing by responding to others….and me and my tree, which was there to provide me shadow. Always loved this happiness, innocence and purity…
Time passes quickly or may be happiness is always limited to time we want to be never ending …. Children grew… and became young…. They no longer needed to place their small hands on me to start walking... but yeah they needed me when they had to come with their friends… to twitch each other... pull their ears... or to discuss their teenage problems and dilemmas. But I was happy …the thing u can’t discuss somewhere else …can always discuss with me and their friends... The friendships and new relations which were sometime building sometime breaking… new arrivals in life and new relations which were building up in their lives…
I was honored to share the tears of a broken heart…a broken relation... but there was something within me which was getting mossed… probably it rained heavily in those years… but I was strong as my tree was always there with me to shed its leaves and give sun its way…. I always liked a human who can at least share and protect me... May be he was alone in a new world of his own (though always covered with people) … then life changes……
My tree grew old…. I also entered into a reasonable age to be rottened… but park management said “That is my bloom period”… my other benches were moved to different parks… some were reconditioned… some due to their inner voices …were moved to theme park… I also grew but now I was placed on other side of tree….. Now I was supporting the tree as it was getting old…. I was proud to be helping my beloved tree, who always supported me whenever I was getting mossed… but I was worried for my tree... my only protection…
Till that time I learnt … these humans are a self obsessed people…. They just needed me and my tree. to take advantage and go…. Life is unfair or fair? I don’t know but…God says He made humans with heart to have emotions and mind to think…. Did He make us with a heart to???? Humans say NO…Then why I was feeling the pain... Did he give me MIND??? Humans say NO... Then why I was thinking that the person sitting on me currently is not innocent and committed a crime of breaking the rule of nature... the rule of sincerity... the rule of breaking relations...
And then one day they will cut my tree to make a new bench or may be burnt it to make a coal or may be made a house from it … I was fixed with nut and bolts… as if I was running…. The human who always come to sit on me … is leaving soon …may be in a year or half…
And here I was... stationary….. Stagnant... but I didn’t waste my life…. I learnt two most important things from life ….
Firstly, humans don’t have heart and mind like us…. They have stationary hearts covered with snow and plastered...
And secondly, life is like a bench where people can sit for a short time, will benefit from you and WILL LEAVE!!! No one will protect you... beacuase there is a life of your own courage... one you will be mossed and rotten and you will be burnt to ashes!!!!
Dedicated to my family, my friend and all those people who appeared in my life!!!!
Here i stand.. waiting ...
Well this one is well crafted. Deep and thoughtful. Nothing to argue as I agree with most of the ideology.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I would like to look at it from a positive perspective. Yes it hurts when people are mean and when they leave, but it hurts mainly because we build expectations from them (expecting them not to harm us is also an expectation). Love, dependency, and expectations should only be for the Almighty; these are beyond human capabilities and thinking. The Almighty has gifted some droplets of these qualities to our parents only - rest of the people don't have these at all.
As for living such a giving life without having the love of people, the worst case would be to end up empty handed - an unsuccessful life. But I can assure you, you will have earned an enriched afterlife InShaAllah. And at the end of the day, that is all what matters, as this world is to Hereafter as a droplet is to the ocean!