A New Perspective ( Wrote it a couple of years ago. )

A new perspective – 2013

Enter the New Year, 2013, and I have a simply scary dream. In the dream I am at the place where I was born and suddenly there is a huge earthquake which engulfs everything in matter of few seconds; just in the meanwhile I was transported to another place which was symbolic of all the mistakes I made in life. That place too is destroyed by another gigantic earthquake and finally I am on a huge tree gasping for breath, holding onto its branches for life and the next thing I see is that I am sitting in a diner, so unique that it makes me happy whenever I think about it. In the midst of the earthquakes and floods and contemplating about the bizarre turn of the events all the while the third earthquake is taking place, this time I feel safe. That was it, the end of the dream. When I woke up, it was 4 am and everything was so silent .Thinking about what the dream meant as sometimes our sub - conscious mind may help us by giving clues which we miss otherwise, I thought at first that I have had much more elaborate and vivid dreams which could have been much more meaningful if I had tried to decode them and make use of them! But there was something that pointed the folly of this line of thinking “if I had, could have, would have” etc. So this time I didn’t try to magnify or ignore it and could interpret it in only one way ; the dream initially showed two places which had nothing in common as they were symbolic of everything good and evil that happened in my life or what I did, the choices I made and even more importantly the aftermath. First place was the place where I had spent the most amazing time in my life and another one exact opposite in a way. What could the juxtaposition of these two places followed by subsequent earthquakes mean? I could only understand the meaning when I remembered there was a third place in the end: the diner. I was just thinking that I am unravelling the mystery behind it but now I think that I had understood it in the dream itself. It could only mean one thing; good or bad, both must be let go of. The earthquake symbolized the power of now taking over the silly tendency of being stuck in the past. The contemplation in the diner reached to one another conclusion: there is only this moment which is real and being alive in it is necessary to understand the meaning of life or even more important to live life in the right way. The past must not choke the present. And another on going earthquake in the process just illustrated the point much more i.e. stay in the moment.

---- Devender Sehrawat