Born a SHINING, SPARKLING DIAMOND, dancing to its own soul music, having no comparison to anything or anyone around….gradually, the PRESSURES of the WORLD, the SOCIETY and the influences of PEOPLE’S OPINIONS – approvals, disapprovals, consents, disconsents, using their experiences rather than making our own etc. etc., the SHINE, the SPARKLE, the love that we’re born with n born for – all DIMINISH and the COLOURFULNESS, the joy that surrounds us , the BEAUTY INSIDE that shines forth – all seem to FADE away…. And what is left is another ‘GREY’ , LIFELESS, UNHAPPY, DISCONTENTED body, SOULLESS, ROBOTIC and so MACHINE-LIKE!
This is NOT what I was BORN FOR or was deemed to do…!!! TO BE ONE AMONGST THE CROWD IS NOT ME!!! I’m here to shine bright, to bring this ‘dark’ unlit world to light, to live my dream, to rise beyond the consent or disconsent of the others, to LIVE n not just be born to fade away….
It takes a lot of COURAGE and SELF-LOVE to be all of this and more…. So many times I’ve felt trampled upon, left alone, judged, and just sided away for not being in compliance to the ways of the society and this world…. Been a really rough terrain to step foot on and to stay put… always having the fear of losing control and falling into the grips of the terrifying, open mouthed monster that this society is… But my FAITH in HIM , THE ONE, and my strong belief that HE’S ALWAYS there WITH ME , guiding and protecting, holding my hand and leading the way for me, has given me all the strength I ever needed … to get up whenever I fell, to show up again after a tiring mental and emotional strife with the others and more so often with myself, to rise inspite the judging , probing eyes of the others and to try and be able to lift the others through their struggles while I was still going through mine…
BACH FLOWER REMEDIES as LARCH – whenever I’d lost the confidence in myself , MIMULUS – to rise above the fears that scared me, HOLLY – to let go of the hatred I developed on the way for one, and so many at times, GENTIAN – when all those limiting beliefs that I’d piled up in my subconscious and all the present circumstances around , got me to think so lowly n negatively about everything, myself included, ASPEN – when I’d add up to my woes by thinking of things and apprehending negatives even when they’d not been there and so many others of these beautiful ‘FRIENDS IN MY BOTTLE’ as I call these Remedies, BROUGHT my ‘SHINE’ and ‘SPARKLE’ BACK and PREVENTED me from GOING into the DEEP DARK DUNGEONS of DEPRESSION when the circumstances were ever so prominent and ‘constant’ .
MY JOURNEY here CONTINUES and so does my ‘struggle’ to shine back as the scintillating , ever so brilliantly sparkling diamond that I was born to be… !!! The LIGHT WITHIN ME might get dim at times but it is NOT TO GO AWAY soon or ever (for that matter) , ’cause even WHEN I’M NO LONGER THERE, MY SOUL SHALL KEEP SPREADING ITS BRILLIANCE around with all the lives I help change and make them smile just some more… For, I believe ,
” YOUR LEGACY IS ALL THE LIVES YOU’VE TOUCHED AND HELP CHANGE FOR THE GOOD”
I LOVE TO SMILE and SEE the OTHERS that way too ….’Cause for me ,
“LOVE is LOVE ,
SPOKEN or UNSPOKEN,
coming STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART ,
it is PURE and UNSHAKEN!
and for THE HEART IT’S MEANT TO BE ,
will KNOW that TOO,
just like WHEN I’M HAPPY ,
MY HEART DANCES TOO,
and WHEN I SMILE,
it LIGHTS UP THE WORLD ,
’cause MY EYES SMILE TOO!!! ”
LOVE n LIGHT
REEMA VOHRA
