Beauty is Life...

I often pondered up on the idea of Beauty and tried to reflect it in my life and hence the title of this blog. Come to think of it the whole concept is like a rainbow with so many different colors and hues and rhythms and each of us find beauty that reflects ourselves in someway.

There is beauty when the plants in our balcony blossom with various flowers in different colors and shapes after several days of longing and careful nurturing by my wife.

I see several photo frames and idols of Gods decorated with flowers and the smell of incense in the air partly visible in the morning sun rays, with fruits or sweets at my home by my wife and find beauty in her devotion.

I hear the chirping of sparrows wearily gathering around a bowl of cooked rice that my wife puts out at a corner of our compound wall and find beauty in her kindness, in her love for small beings and in their joy of fulfillment.

I remember a long time ago during evenings I used to gather with my mother, sisters and brother sipping tea and laughing out loud cracking jokes, most of the time about my Dad and realizing now how beautiful was that time.

I find beauty in all the people who care for others, even more so for unconditional affection. There is beauty in finding fresh water when you are thirsty and beauty in a grain of cooked rice when you are hungry. There is beauty when you get off the gigantic monaco radiation instrument at the end of your radiotherapy and there is beauty in the Peg-Grafeel injection at the end of your last day of a chemotherapy cycle. There is beauty when you rest your head on your pillow at home after several days of using the hospital bed.

There is beauty all around, only if you are willing to see it but the most beautiful of all things I think is love, loving and being loved. After all isn't that what life is all about!

PS: Happy International Women's Day to all the women who have shaped my life and still continuing, and not giving up on me. Thank YOU!