Bubbles

I was watching these children blowing bubbles one day and I felt that we are like those bubbles too. Each one of us are a bubble of our own. We travel in this journey of life surrounded by everyone around us. We may seem to have many friends and family members with us but we are in fact alone.

Most of the time we are involved with relationships with other people. They can be family members, friends or strangers who come into our lives. We meet people in our lives from time to time. I remember my friends in primary school then in secondary school,and College. I often think of them and wonder where they are now.

We are all travelers in this journey of life too. It is like a train journey. We board the train in a particular station and the train takes off. On this journey of ours, we see many things in the train and through the window on the outside too. Sometimes we see people and sometimes we see only hills and houses and vehicles. Many people get in the train at various stops and others get down. We would have come in contact with them for a short while. We may have had some casual conversation with some and sometimes we may have made a lasting friendship with others.

Soon we will have to get down from the train at some point of the journey and move away from those we have met. In our journey too, we meet various people. At a point of time they may be our closes buddies and would have meant everything to us. I remember meeting a very dear friend of mine after many years. Somehow there was no more rapport between us this time. I realized that along the way we had taken different routes. We had grown apart.
We met for a short period of time and them went on in our separate routes fulfilling our own journeys.

Our lives too are the same. We meet people, become friends and after some time we outgrow the relationships. I used to wonder what happened along the way. Just like the bubble we have taken off on our own path. Nothing can really bind us as one. We may sit and talk and feel the comradeship amongst friends but at the end of the day we are this one lone bubble, come on it's own visit. The journey of this bubble to fulfill it's visit.

The journey of this lone bubble is in fact not lonely at all. It is not a sad tale at all. This bubble has itself for it's friend too. In satisfying all the other relationships outside, the bubble forgot that it too had a relationship with itself ! The bubble never took time off to be with itself and see what a gift it was.

This bubble went around appreciating everything around it. It forgot that it is also the most beautiful, colorful and wonderful being too. It did not really need others to make it complete. This bubble by itself can feel the joy. When others watch the bubble enjoy it's existence and floating in joy, they too start enjoying the sight.

We have watched children enjoying themselves and felt a joy just watching them. All they did was to be themselves. This bubble too has to be itself and enjoy being this most beautiful and precious being on the face of this earth.It is one of it's kind, very special and unique, on it's own journey towards it's destination.