Nothing beats the pleasure and nothing brings you closer to the nature more than a silent solitary walk in a breezy evening in the woods. I have experienced it but once, with slight differences in the set up of the scene but then, the tranquility was very much there. The endless expanse spread all around me, dotted with leaves of all possible hues and the tall canopy of trees, made me realize how beautiful nature really is. Having spent all my life in the urban world full of concrete building and asphalt roads and well trimmed gardens, I was unaware of the wild beauty that nature has perfected in all these gazillion years every since the first plant sprouted and unfurled its lush green leaf to the golden rays of the Sun. So much time has passed. So many changes, both beneficial and disastrous, have occurred. The advent and subsequent evolution of mankind, for one. It was beneficial till the time the cutting of trees, and the hunting of animals started taking its toll on our beloved planet. Not to mention the population boom. The earth is still spinning with an immense weight upon itself and finally, the people have realized that such unheeded and relentless destruction for a little immediate gains is definitely bright forth “APOCALYPSE” into our real world.
It wondrous how a few steps taken can push my mind so far back into time and think about things that appear disjoint and yet, with a deeper reflection, we find every single ‘thing’ is related to every other ‘thing’. The world really is a humungous, entangled web, something my imagination tries and fails to conjure with all its detail. What are we? Just a part, a very dominant one though, of this chain of existence. What am I? Just a single individual, one in the score of billions of others like me.
And yet, a single walk in the woods has made me feel so significant in ways that I can’t put down in words. I see a tiny plant that has sprouted but a few days ago. And I see trees so tall that they appear to have pierced the sky and spread their branches all the way up to the starry heavens. For only a moment, but I feel like I’m the only one here, to enjoy these fascinating sights which are not quite so out of the ordinary and yet, one attempt at a deep observation and we find immense beauty in all the simplicity of the plants. A lush green leaf with a perfect texture. A flower that has been moulded by God himself into sheer perfection and colours filled by every rainbow that has ever adorned the clear blue skies. The grass, crowned with dew and softer than any mattress I’ve lied down. Simple things. Not so simple thoughts. And beauty beyond the thinking of a single insignificant human.
How amazing it is that a single walk, a mere few steps into this garden of life and make my mind travel to so many places and times of which only a single thought in my mind exists.
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