Do You Believe In Fairies...



Have you ever  believed in fairies’???..or Santa Claus....????? Have you ever believed in pixies or magical mushrooms....or pixie dust and goblins????

Have you ever believed in magic????

I still remember  I was  four...and it was Christmas Night....my dad waking me up and telling me that Santa had left me presents....and me and my sister running to our Christmas tree....and seeing presents lying below the tree...and I indeed believed that Santa had left them for me.  Over the years  I wrote letters to Santa...left it on the Christmas tree....sometimes writing stuff like...I was a good girl this year....and that I don’t want anything for Christmas except for my family and I want my daddy to be there with me always.....

But when I realised that there was no  such thing as Santa Claus...at that very moment I  think I grew up...I stopped believing in magic and fairies and reindeers ....but whenever I  read an Enid Blyton book...I could never stop myself from  imagining pixie cottages surrounded by honeysuckle and primroses and  talking yellow canaries and wizards and gnomes...because somewhere within I just never wanted to grow up.....

I think telling a child that angels or fairies  don’t exist is like telling him that he has no imagination....I sometimes wonder why are children trying to grow up so fast....why are they losing their  childish instincts. Children are the most beautiful creatures on earth....they can believe in magic or angels, they can smile in the most beautiful way that can make all your sadness just go away....their innocence can make you wonder what  have we become...

I think I ought to thank my parents who never stopped me from imagining and believing in beautiful things like fairy tales and magic...who brought me all these wonderful books...and taught me the spirit of  Christmas and how even if your 21 , and you’re stuck in some subway...or even if you’re in some investment bank running figures on futures, options or swaps...you can still imagine the most beautiful things and you can never stop the child within you from  imagining and most importantly believing in magic ......

Can we walk through Life alone....

Can we walk through life alone...without love, care and company...

Is it necessary to be in love to understand love...Could life have been very different if we never existed..or if people  who we thought were important to us ,never existed...Is love suffering...Is hatred and non forgiveness the key to keep away the waves and pains of love ...Does solitude define why we exist without any reason ... Belief or Faith are they one and the same...What is faith...What is truth...What is passion...Is it just words to stir the utmost unconscious minds of a human being or is there some truth or some underlying value and meaning to these words....

When walking through the woods today..my mind was full of questions such as these....a wise friend told me...that thoughts could be dangerous...and this set me thinking...am I isolating myself from the rest of the world because of my thoughts...am I thinking too much..thinking far away from reality and making life way too complicated..

I thought the best way to answer them was by just not facing them at the moment....as I walked further down...i came to a halt...because the paths ahead were two..and since both looked  quite travelled..i didn’t know which one to take...I smiled to myself and said “Like the poets say lets take the one less travelled”...

As I kept walking, the forest ahead grew more unfamiliar but  something  within me just kept me walking...the paths were rough...woods fallen....no one ahead and no sign of any habitation... I turned up the volume and switched to a track which I loved hearing...The tune of Forgiven by Stephen Devassy set the perfect mood...and all the unfamiliarity around me just dissolved into this perfect ambience and beautiful weather...

As i walked back..I sat across a wild stretch of field...the next track on my playlist...actually made me smile...”Thy word is a lamp onto my feet.....when I feel afraid and think I’ve lost my way..still you’r there right beside me...” It kinda set me thinking  again...and the blowing wind felt as if it was consoling me....and I realised that in life sometimes the answers to all questions are not to be searched but they are to be revealed at the right time...sometimes we need not go in search of answers  sometimes the answers may just come to us.....”

Peace and tranquillity at times may just come to us....when we least expect it...when we are unsure....and when we think that we have lost everything....but then it takes just a walk through a lonely untrodden path to find out..that peace is around you...and it comes to you when you least expect it....