Beauty Beckons...

I was sitting in my drawing room ....It was raining outside...there was no current in the house...a candle was burning on the center table...I read it somewhere that staring at the flame of a candle in a dark room improves eyesight...so instead of looking outside I chose to stare at the candle...observing every little movement of the flame...the way the flame complimented the eruptions on the candle wax and with the pointed edges of the candle stand...and the way the flame reflected itself on the glass table...and the way the reflection and the candle complimented each other...its beauty was accentuated by the darkness of the room..

As I sat there stupefied by the sheer beauty of the candle, I asked myself...

Had the candle looked so amazing if the lights were on??...


Well there lies the beauty of it..... No one lights a candle in the sun...Its the darkness which makes it soo breathtakingly beautiful...
And its not just the candle...Every little thing in the world has its own beauty...its own charm...we just need to take out some time from our lives to notice them...the way the raindrops drips from the roof...and the way the occasional lightning makes them dazzle like diamonds...the way the cookoo bird sings in the scorching heat of the summer.....The look in the face of a small boy when he gets his first bicycle..... The anger in the eyes of a little boy when some random guy teases his sister...The way a teenage girl turns pink when her crush smiles at her...The way a mother touches her new born baby for the first time...The assurance of protection in the father when his son gets high on a swing...The guy in a white T-shirt and stylish sunglasses waiting for his girlfriend...The girl walking with great difficulty on her high heeled stilletoes to meet her boyfriend...The dedication with which a wife waits for her husband to come home...The love with which a husband kisses on his wife's forehead...the way the last rays of the sun give a brilliant glow to the sky, the way the big strong trees disappear into the darkness of the night...I simply love these things...I wonder how beautiful the world around us becomes if we just take out some time to notice it.....to absorb it in ourselves...to feel it..to smell it...to touch it...all we need to do is to open up our senses to the surrounding and watch out how beautiful the world becomes...