I used to have this weird hobby when I was a teenager.
Before 5:30 or 6, my mother would return from her job, and Achan would arrive at around 8. These 2 hours were therefore chaos. While she washes and gets ready, my sister Hari would follow amma and report on everything that transpired at school. She is amma's pet.I used to get some sneak-out time during this gap,like how they end up in the magic kingdom of Narnia through the wardrobe.My terrace was my magical place. There was a bed and until my father got home at approximately eight, I would just lie there and stare up at the sky.
All the women in my neighborhood who were chatting with their neighbors would return home; kids would return from their playground; men would return from work; football players would return from the surrounding field; and so my sister would turn off the television and direct her attention to my mother. It was suddenly quite quiet. Azan begins at the mosque, and there will be songs from the temple. By then, there will be a standing lamp in front of the Hindu houses. All of a sudden, everything calm down. So does the sky.As the sun sets, the sky becomes dark, and slowly, all those stars that my eyes could not appreciate until then will start appearing. The north star, moon, and star groups slowly became visible to my eyes.I wonder at that magic; I never got tired of that view or that transit. I continued this little sneaking out of the world for years. Me, the sky, and my own world of thoughts!!
The thing is that these stars were already there, yet my eyes never could appreciate them, and that little darkness was necessary to let those stars become visible to my eyes.Even in life, a little darkness is what gives you the sight to appreciate something that your eyes wouldn't appreciate otherwise.
When we started talking, that was how I felt—the way such a beautiful sky became visible to my eyes.
Serene! Everything settled down around me and inside me, and all I could wonder was: What if it wasn't a little dark out there? Maybe I would have missed that scene.
Maybe I wouldn't have even noticed it was there.
I Love You!!
