Few places just leave us with a thought or maybe more than one, they leave us
with a feeling and one such place would be a beach. Sitting on a beach facing the
sea during the sunset is an experience in its own. Fortunately I just had mine
a while back. Different people experience different things, take different
message from the sea. Few take from the sea, few from its shore and few from
the waves but they all take something back with them. For few people waves are
like people in our lives, they come and go but never fail to touch our lives.
Few people like sitting on the beach as it inspires them, for some feel love,
some feel nature, some feel blue, some just like to get into the sea and drown
their fears and their sorrows. While one perfect evening when I was sitting on
the beach with the most perfect arrangement ever (ones literally picked from
dreams) with a white bed sheet, all friends sitting on it, the sun set, the
beach almost empty, the tides growing higher, the wind getting colder with each
passing hour and of course the pure silence, I thought to myself, “Dude people
say the sea teaches them something. It gives them a message, of hope, of love.
They say the sea talks if you can understand its language. So what is it that
you feel right now?”
I tried to feel
romance, hope, sorrow, happiness everything. I would feel it for few seconds
and then back to neutral. I felt nothing. It bothered me for some time and I
said to myself “how can you not feel anything Bineka? How is that possible?
It’s the sea; focus Bineka look for nature’s signs.” I felt the wind, looked at
the waves, felt the soft sand, closed my eyes and heard the waves. I just
stopped thinking, was neutral and even then I felt nothing, but now
I wasn't bothered with that nothingness, it was actually very
comforting and beautiful. I was enjoying that nothingness, and my mind was
silent, it was in a no though zone. The feeling was pure and soothing.
And right when we
had to leave the beach, I opened my eyes, the sun had set, the waves had grown
louder and the winds had become colder, as I was walking back I took my message
from the experience, I heard the sea (or rather Universe) tell me that like
there exists a no man's land; free from names and tags, in the same way there exists
a felling which comes under no banner; happiness or sadness or countless
to name. Nothingness has its own beauty. It comes with a smile when you have
everything you want in life or when you don’t. Nothingness is not negative, it
is peaceful because it is like sea and its waves; complete in its own way, it
has no names, no feelings attached to it. It is just itself, just who it is; naked,
simple, and in its rawest form. It comes in the same form and leaves in the same
, without changing.
Not always it is
necessary to have a feeling attached to something or maybe someone too because
sometimes no feeling is the best feeling. It unburdens your heart, gives your
heart and consciousness a breath. It’s like stopping for a while and enjoying
the journey you already have covered and then smiling, just smiling for no
reason and no feeling attached to it. And for people who don't know what Alehadgi means, it means detachment.
Title courtesy : Naim Keruwala 
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