sillycon wordsmith
Is ordinary really ordinary? Only when we are unable to do the ordinary, we realise that it is not. Post an accident the everything ordinary things were not possible. Free weeks after the surgery the ordinary cup of tea in the morning seemed heavenly, extraordinary really. That is when I understood Osho’s saying ‘Being ordinary is being blessed’.
Have you ever thought that it is a blessing to see the morning sun streaming through the leaves? Have you wondered who had to go into the sunset for ensuring this for us?
Near my house is a park named after Major Sylvester Rakesh Ratnam, a resident of my area who was martyred in Operation Parakram in 2002. When I walk in this small park and see the beautiful shaft of light in the morning, with the bust of his in the centre of park, I can only think of how the young lad walked into the sunset to ensure that we citizens see the daylight. A humble tribute to soldier and his mother as ‘A tribute -“A shaft of light”’
As I slowly ironed the clothes, creases vanished, thoughts ceased and words trickled forming the poem “Immersion”.
Osho says being ordinary or average is the most difficult. It happens only when you are mindful, when you in the ‘now’. When you see the simple ordinary things for what it is, it is indeed extraordinary. I guess Sai Nellore triggered this with his posting of a Osho video today on this. I recollected one of Osho’s lectures that I had listened many many years ago on the same. When I went on my…