Nothing is what it seems

The sky is the limit they say! Ever gone out on a cloudless night to stare hard and deep at the night sky? Nobody knows the secrets it holds, nobody can see what lies underneath that darkness and nobody can hear the million stories they have to tell…but if you just look harder, hear clearer and feel better, you might just be able to hear them whisper their tale. Why do people prefer to detach from their surroundings and get lost in the beauty of the stars when they are troubled? Maybe because the stars themselves are an example of however small a part we play in our lives, we each are unique and carry our own twinkle. Our troubles seem so little, like they have drifted far away from us and never find their way back to us and sometimes the beauty of the night gives us hope to look forward at the horizon and wait for a new day. Why do people wish upon stars? Because stars to us are eternal, just like the love and hope that is always alive in our hearts. The moon is the most wonderful celestial object…so calm, so gentle, yet giving a mellow glow to every corner its light can reach. Anyone can spend ages looking at it…even the busiest of beings and the richest of men have stopped, aghast at the beauty of the moon. No wonder it brings a smile to a woman’s face when she is compared to the moon.
I came from the city and I was always under a roof- inside a car, within the four walls of my house or under a cloud of pollution. It is when I moved miles away from the city to a poorly maintained hostel housing sixty four girls under one roof, that I really missed my space. I had nothing I could call my own. Privacy was a word I was beginning to forget. On a hot summer night, when the humidity was at its peak, the power had to fail! Drenched in sweat and unable to breathe, the lot from our room moved outside. Wearily I seated myself on the stairs. Frustrated by the number of chattering mouths around me, I looked up for I knew that was the only place where I wouldn’t see people and boy am I glad for every previous moment that led to this one for what I saw left me utterly spellbound. High up in the sky, cloudless and black, I saw millions of stars looking down at me, twinkling so brightly, I replayed the rhyme I learnt as a child and understood why they were called diamonds in the sky! Far away from city smoke, this place made me witness something I never would have if I had stuck to the luxury the metropolitan offered. Sometimes you need times like this to understand what you’re missing in life, what Mother Nature made for us to enjoy and what treats our eyes yearn to feast upon.