It has been quite a few days I am not being able to figure out what’s happening around me… I feel like I am in a crossroad… or may be on a path, which goes nowhere… It seems like I am between the devil and the deep blue sea… I try to keep myself busy but all my mind travels to the place far far away and I get lost in the horizon. My thoughts feels the challenge and all of sudden it becomes helpless… Daily activities in one hand and obstacles in other, I am caught between a rock and a hard place… the energy has all been sucked out of me… I am pushing myself up from the inevitable situation… I am just trying to overcome distractions and stay comfortable with the discomfort… Despite the situations, I am trying hard to clean the deepest and darkest moments with the hope of flying soon in the cool sky with my wings wide open…
At around 23:00 I was already in bed, because of so much stress and tiredness I fell asleep in a while. I always expect to dream beautiful and positive things – ideas, emotions, and sensations… That day too, consolidation of memory and regulation of emotions were occurring in my mind and all of sudden I found myself in a beautiful garden… Surroundings were nice… Green trees… Blooming flowers… Singing birds… And few small ponds… I slowly went towards one of those ponds. It was different than all other ponds as it has muddy water but a lotus flower was growing beautifully above the water surface. The roots were in the mud, stem growing up through the water and the scented flower was above the water. In spite of emerging from the dirty and unclean pond, the flower was magnificent, untouched and unstained.
I was enjoying those beautiful moments and I kept on walking around… It was a beautiful evening… Sun was spreading its various sunset colors… I was looking all around at that magnificent place. After a while I stopped near a place where an empty pot was lying on the ground. I just wanted to fill the pot, so I went to one of the ponds, the pond wasn’t much dirty yet I was unable to see its surface. I started filling the pot with the water from that pond. I filled the pot and took that out on the ground. As I took the pot outside the water, it completely poured on the ground, then I realized the pot contained a hole. With one mind I wanted to throw the pot away and move from there but another mind encouraged to keep on filling and pouring, the second thinking won and I kept on repeating the same infinite times. My patience was fading slowly and determined heart was weakening. I was feeling like I am on the slippy uphill road. The water level was decreasing slowly and I was increasing my patience to give some more tries, at last the pond became empty. As soon as the removal of dirty water was over, I saw something twinkling on the pond surface. I picked that up and realized that was a diamond 💍… I screamed… “WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!” And with that scream I woke up…
As I woke up I saw a poster in the wall of my room in dim morning light that read “Patience is more than just surviving… more than just waiting… It is all about the courage to continue, the strength to smile through pain, and the hope that no matter how rough the weather – the storm will pass.”
With the series of positive events, I realized… the patience and hard work will always be rewarded… no matter the current situation, there is always a beautiful chance ahead to make the dream come true… I was smiling unknowingly… I gained the power to fight with the situations…
I named the pond – The pond of PATIENCE and started being ready for the college.
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