A window into life!

The above walkers that I noticed at day break on the road in a hospital campus conveyed different moods and thoughts. They did not look like walking for exercise. 

The three photos of walkers below convey another message. The two probably in the first photo are going to school as they are in a uniform and have bags on their back. They had a stooping posture! Is it the burden of learning! 

The other two below were in their exercise walk as they were in the walking attire and walked with measured steps. 

I stayed watching the walkers to get a feel of how the way we walk can convey a lot about how we feel within!

We walk through life carrying the load of experiences we encounter. The way we walk physically can express those moods, emotions or state mind. 

How much we can let go of what occupies us is a relative matter depending on the attitude that a person carries about life and living.

I had an opportunity to reflect on this while returning from this insightful experience at day break!

While collating the photos of the walkers, I came across the above photo of a rose bush in our garden. It yields flowers even in summer and endures the heat and humidity of the summer. It is nourished by the soil where it is rooted. 

There are many variables in the environment that can offset the rose bush. But it withstands them to give flowers! The plant lives its mission.  It expresses its fullness through the colour, aroma and nectar it produces in each flower. 

Am I able to live by giving !

I feel that different experiences stifle me from being able to live fully and freely!

I receive yet another invitation from the photo above of another rose bush in our garden! It was given to be able to give! The dew drops on the bush symbolised all that it receives to be able to give!

It leads me to another level of consciousness of how much each of us is given!

I recall a message that I received from professor David Morley in 1987, "You are engaged with developmentally challenged children. You are to be giving and that alone matters in life..."

M.C.Mathew (text and photo)