Perspectives

I was walking back to my room from the juice shop that I regularly visit for a drink after my dinner daily. It had become a routine for me to do that, so was listening to music when I took this trip. But, today I was in no mood to listen to music. My mind was engulfed with vivid thoughts, so I intended silence to be my comrade for the journey. As peoples opinion about me had complicated my thought process dramatically.

I was lost deep in speculations that my head hung low for most of the time. The wide range of vehicles from two wheeled bikes to huge trucks with lot of wheels raced passed me on the road, as I walked along the direction of the speeding motor vehicles.  All of a sudden I could see a beam of light that hit my face. I looked up to find that there was a two wheeler heading right towards me. I froze at my place as the rider took a sharp turn as he went past me, pulling pretty words from my mouth along with him. The words echoed in my mind but my tongue was under control.

I stood there to take a breath that is when I noticed, I was standing below a light post without any movement. Yet due to the different vehicles that zoomed passed me there were multiple shadows being formed of me on the road. These changed sizes along with the movement of the vehicles. Some of the lights were very powerful that they made dark thick shadows and the dim lights made shadows that were hardly visible to the human eye. I tried to figure out which was the most promising shadow that stood apart from the rest to give a clear outline of myself. I could only arrive at the conclusion that only the shadow that was formed due to the lamp post was static in nature with reasonable amount of dept.

My mind started to relate this with the thoughts it was so busily engulfed with; I realized that those lights are like people looking at you. Every single individual looks at you in a different way. The impact, that is, the shadow that is made is your image. But, what they see is based upon how they look at you. This varies from person to person like the power of their light. The more close they observe, the darker and more distinct will be the image created. To the ones who look only at the surface level, they don’t have bright enough light that is they simply lack the ability to observe thoroughly. You are only partially responsible for what they think about you.

These thoughts cleared my mind and made me feel better and relieved. I was happy that at least the lamp posts light made a static shadow of me. Believed that at least one was be able to see me for what I really am and started to move on.

Oh! Now with every step I took even shadow made by the lamp post light stared to change! Shattering those valiant hopes! Enlightening in the end, It was never about you …

It’s with the eyes that see you! If you move even a little everything they see will change. Even you will see the difference.

You just have to look close enough!