Ever seen a lotus grow in fresh water? Which is the most beautiful flower and also the national flower of our country. Life is full of delusions, which you will only come to know if you are wise enough to know the “why” for every theory you believe. The point I want to justify here is that where there are many constraints for a flower or a plant to grow in the shallow and murky water, but only the lotus has the ability to grow in there. Overcoming all the shortcomings the flower blooms and is an inspiration for me and many other people.
Now talking about people, many a times we come across people who have a jovial personality with the big smile always making us forget our tension. And we feel the person has just figured everything for himself/herself. If we juxtapose these two qualities of the lotus and the person mentioned above they happen to be of the same kind. As we have evolved from the nature itself, naturally we will also exhibit the same qualities. Where there is a tragedy, where there is something missing…………is the place from where something creative and beautiful originates. And this creation is original, sublime and it lasts forever. Everyone has his or her story, I mean everyone has one. But only some are strong enough to let it go and extract the good parts from it. You can’t keep whining about the bad phase you have gone through, you may die crying about the bad things happened to you intentionally or unintentionally. Try and think about the present you have with yourself, forget the past, take something good from it and make your future delightful not only for yourself but also for the people around you. And when you start thinking and doing in this way, you will feel a change and the outcome of this will always be positive.
It’s not about the type of constraint or tragedy, it’s only about the trigger needed to make something beautiful. It works as a catalyst to give you the zeal to complete your creation, which you don’t want in your product but in your by-product. For example, the woman you see in the picture wears a mask not because she is pretending to be fake but she overcomes the problems she has, and the mask and the cloak of happiness is the product she creates. And what could be more beautiful than a “woman smiling”?. Trust me there are many languages to communicate, but a smile has no barrier of language to understand. Keep smiling, keep spreading smiles, maybe sometime you smile to a random person who is going through crap and your smile could make his day. After reading this try and identify such people around you, who have a lot to cry about, but instead they contradict it. Maybe you can undermine your problems and insecurities after reading this and could create something that would delineate you!!!!
“Where there are constraints, there will be something beautiful, creative and then you will develop.”
- Zakhir Khan
Sketch by :-
Prajakta Pawar
Words by :-
Dhaval Nagare
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