A Night Journey!

            It was just a matter of time. The birds seemed to be desperate to reach their destination and so did we. In the meanwhile, the dim twilight started fading and it was dull and gloomy around in a short span of time. Our destination was almost 130 kilometers away. The traffic and unknown roads made sure it took us at least five hours to reach our destination.

As time passed, all of us started feeling drowsy, as there was darkness all around and nothing interesting to watch out for. All the cell phones had drained their batteries and the only source of light we had was the one coming from the vehicles passing by. Most of us fell asleep as our destination was still too far.

As the time progressed there seemed to be increased silence as well. The only sound that could be heard was of our car. The increased silence in the surroundings, for a moment, scared us. We had no clue of the type of road that was ahead of us and it gave an impression that it was seldom preferred for travel. Then, there was this diversion…..

Just like, a decision that changes our life, this diversion had something really cool in store for us. It took us a great deal of keen observation to realize that there was something colorful in the dull night journey. The road then started getting curved and wavy.  It is rightly said that “everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”

When we were at the troughs of the wavy roads, if there were vehicles coming from both the directions i.e. front and behind, it appeared as if there were two suns that were rising. We could feel the essence of the drawings done by us during our childhood (the ones with mountains and sun rising from behind them). The light coming from the headlights of the vehicles was just like the ray of hope which shatters all the ignorance that is in the form of darkness in an individual’s life.

Being on the crests i.e. top of the wave, we could see many lights approaching us but that was just for a short span of time. Life isn’t just about the positives that keep coming. We can’t expect everything that we hope for, in the way we want it. It’s good to be positive and have hope but everything has a limit. If everything turns out to be good, there’s nothing wrong if you have hope and if it turns out to be an expectation but that doesn’t yield a good outcome if we start thinking of every hope as an expectation.

Overall it was night journey worth remembering. It was packed with a bunch of new experiences and a few unseen scenic beauties. The recollected childhood memories added glitters to the night journey, just like stars add glitters to the night sky in the presence of cool and composed moon that spreads light in dull and dark night sky.      

             "If you have not clung to a broken piece of your old ship in the dark night of the soul, your faith may not have the sustaining power to carry through to the end of the journey!"
                                                                                        - Refus Jones