The Green Identity

There is always a happy you outside yourself. You may not recognise it, if you’re content with your own identity. There should be a strong urge to search that other identity.
This identity hustles through trees, flows through rivers, rattles with the wind, makes noise with the raindrops. I could not understand the meaning of the word ‘soul’ until I saw the dazzling beauty of the nature. The liveliness which is ready to pour itself in your existence, is calling you, always.

Every time, I walk down the road in front of my apartment, I feel the trees of various shapes & colours are looking at me. When I’m happy, they laugh with me. They try to cheer me up every morning.
Ruskin Bond, a famous author wrote in an article, “I left England & started living in the mountains of Mussoorie, where nature began to play a greater role in my stories & writing.”
He further says, “For me, nature is very personal & mountains are in my blood. It is like living the bosom of a strong, sometimes proud, but always a comforting mother.”

I was so relieved, when I heard this explanation from Mr. Bond. My curiosity & love for the nature was not a secret anymore. A baby feels comfortable with his mother. If we call our planet as Mother Earth, we are ought to feel comfortable around her, with her.
Answers of all our questions are out there. We just have to go out & watch carefully.

A stream, a cloud, a bush & even a tiny blade of grass tries to interact with us. But, we are too busy with ourselves. Near my apartment, there is a hill. Almost every day, I go there, and sit near an old temple. There is a small pond in front of the temple which attracts different birds & animals. Through-out the year, I have seen variety of birds singing happily. I close my eyes & listen to them.

I have experienced various shades of the sky sitting in the same place. The beautiful Sunrise which clears the fog over the city, the amazing Sunset that lights up the sky with dim Moon & stars, the breeze in the winter that plays with the clothes, and sometimes; the peace that runs silently in the sky. I have observed it all sitting in front of that old temple. I have seen the love in my mind, spreading its fragrance all over the nature. And I have also experienced the grief getting dismissed by the touch of a rain-drop.

Everything, in nature, has a voice. Everything has a colour. Everything has a smell. But, you’ve to get in touch with your own other self to experience that. Start treating the nature as your best friend. If you have a tree in the backyard, consider it as your closest friend. Hug that tree every day, share your secrets with that tree, and take good care of that tree. Start developing a relation with that tree. And through that tree, you will be able to connect with everything else. Even with the humans around you.

Whenever people disappoint me, I always ask nature for the support. And it always responds.
And I want to suggest everybody to do the same. If you’re living in a city, at least spend a day in a fortnight in the company of the tranquil nature. It will refresh you.
Sometimes, we tend to ignore the things that come to us without costs. In this money-oriented age, we have lost our belief in the free service concept. But, fortunately, nature did not forget it. So, not only enjoy the service of nature, but also serve the people around you, like nature does. Be happy & make others happy :)