Its still dark when you wake up and rub the sleep off your eyes. You check your watch again and realize its dark because the sun is hidden behind a veil of black clouds and its pouring softly outside.
There is an ethereal stillness. And you grudgingly let go of the bedlinen, swing over your still numb legs over the side and into the sandals. A slight jolt as you realise the sandals are damp. you grope your way to the bathroom and turn on the lights and look at yourself all bedraggled with hair standing out at odd angles. With a resigned sigh you take up your toothbrush and with unfeeling fingers squeeze some paste onto it. Then with the daily practiced motions we start brushing our teeth and lose ourselves in a semi dreamy state..and we wonder..
Behind those clouds was there a brilliant sunrise?Were there birds chirping in other cities which were witnessing the sunrise that you missed? Maybe in another city there is a person just like you, but he woke up to a brilliant sunrise and dry sandals! To him the birds would chirp and sing and brighten his day. He'd be humming happily as he prepared his breakfast and got ready.
Drawing parallels, this is just a scene where the same sun rose and ushered in the morning to a new day, but where one person woke up to a dank and dark morning just because some dark clouds hid the brilliant sun while another rose to a crimson sunrise.
There are many incidents in our lives which sometimes are masked by rather unpleasant happenings. (This in no way suggests that rains are unwelcome or bad-on the contrary, I love rains-but as a portrayal of how it can change someone's perception about the mornings) We would have to learn to look past the dark clouds and learn to find the silver lining and live our lives which are meaningful. Who knows there might just be a brilliant sunrise waiting to wake us up the very next day. After all clouds don't last forever.
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