The coolest
star, the sun is showering its light, the scorching heat, the sweat tripping
off the face and you feel like jumping off the cliff into the river in order to
quench the thirst of your impoverished body and suddenly you hear the clouds
bellowing. The rumbling dark clouds rubbing against each other producing some
light effects and igniting hope in the heart of that destitute and frail body
that it will rain and cool down the burning skin.
The ever
thinking mind of the human contemplates that it will rain sooner than ever. At the
hind of his brain, a thought germinates, a vague picture appears and a question
arises from nowhere, that will it rain…will it rain today? A timid contrast plays
on in his mind, at one end there is hope, at another, dubiousness. This dilemma
makes him forget the miseries he is suffering from and harnesses the new
thought which is at the other end of his brain. The boisterous clouds don’t
perturb him now as he is not thinking about the clouds, the sky or the sun. His
mind is sifting through the two phenomenons of hope and doubt. The two ends set
out on war against each other, the war between hope and doubt initiates with a
raging thunder louder than that in the sky.
In the sun,
the rickshaw that he is pulling or the boot he is polishing or the cattle he is
walking or the charcoal he is laying on the road, he forgets it all…he forgets
all his work as the two ends meet up in his mind. Entrapped in this mind game, he
can’t think of anything, a helpless creature he becomes.
As he is dissolved
in his work and the mind game, a small drop of water falls on his face, it
drizzles and he is startled. Suddenly the war between the two ends ceases to
exist. He looks up towards the sky to feel the benign drops of rain touching
his face giving him the solace he wanted all these days. The rain ends the
incineration that his body was suffering from long. It ends the war in his
mind, between hope and doubt.
Hope is the
phenomenon which gets the human going when he is down on his knees, hope gets
him towards the shore and hope gets him to his destiny. Sometimes it’s the other
phenomenon which makes him forget about his problems for a while but in the end
its hope that gets him through. Never lose it.
