Nature - The Priceless Juice Of Life.

RBS Regards,

Nature has the deepest essence of nurturing life. It is an infinite source of creation of life forms on earth in beautiful varieties of greenery, wildlife, and aquatic flora and fauna. In our day to day affairs, we are at the center heads of equating our peace and prosperity with monetary fame and muscling gains at the workplace while horrendously failing to understand the real essence of life. It wouldn't be unfair to say that monetary and materialistic achievement stands as a stepping stone towards building stability in life but the subject is debatable.

Let us understand it from a common man's narrative - It has been a tough day, working in and out at the work place and you are a bachelor staying alone in a rented apartment. So, what do you intend to do to re-energize yourself ?

Few would take some time off and rejuvenate themselves at a posh restaurant, themed cafe, while a certain section of the young professionals would like to visit a quiet place to contemplate and put their thoughts in one place while discovering themselves in the strongest companionship of nature and her surroundings. Once again, nature comes to the rescue with her blissful and pure creations.

So, behind every materialistic gain, lies the indomitable source of energies, focus, and determination which prepares us towards facing moderate to extreme forms of challenges in personal and professional life.

This source of energy which powers us to succeed in our life is nature herself, through her creations which includes dynamic life forms on earth. In every act that we pursue, there is a presence of nature within.

We live, construct, eat, sustain, and succeed in this cosmos which constitutes soil, water, and air. These elements in union empowers us towards receiving focus and determination while we set forth towards personal and professional growth in life.

Let me put it in a common man's way to filter out the core meaning from the aforesaid lines. Does it mentally satisfy you if you crush a plant sapling or cut off a tree or kill a beautiful and innocent duckling to quench your hunger or serve your aesthetic needs ?

You continuously feel guilty and then forget with time. Eventually, by continuously practicing these acts in the long run, you turn into an arrogant personality - from being moderate to extreme forms who has no space for reason and compassion. This scope of artificial living is further exploited with culmination of negative habits including clouded anger, miscommunication, and lack of mental peace. This is a major problem affecting the youth today in the form of mental depressions and all sorts of life failures and it needs serious attention and treatment.

Problems rise from a small source and when it turns wildest and scariest, we start to treat them while the reality is different. Life has to be lived with conscious activity by observing, thinking, and acting accordingly.

This is one such ordinary account of my close companionship with nature and how I have tried extracting the essence of nature by observing these life forms - Ducklings.

For me, it had been a monotonous affair with day to day life while coping up with domestic chores, professional endeavors, and personal highs and lows, which is a normal discourse in each and everyone's lives. To ease out stress and exhaustion, I take refuge at quiet places like river banks, temples, and lake sides. In this illustrious note, I have drawn a critical comparison of the bathing of ducklings in and on the top of the lake waters surface with the present day vulgarity of women bathing in ponds, lakes, or river banks and consequences further. So, let us read and understand this differently penned article with sense of humor and critical appreciation.

Ducklings and Swans are admired for their beautiful shapes and movements. Ducks, fondly regarded as the epitome of peace, harmony, and compassion are one of the solemn creations of the Divine.

Their nuances are fulfilled with innocence and naughtiness. The way they dip their heads and bodies into the lake waters by stretching their feathered wings looks not only romantic but musical too. Their watery movements remind me of a peculiar form of freedom which is carefree and limitless. It is a pleasantry delight to watch a herd of these mild beauties lining themselves across the lake banks, mouthing and gripping the crumbles of bread pieces floating on the top of lake waters. Within a flick of moments, they consume these bread pieces and start swimming ahead, taking a stroll on the calm water surface. Their gradual tip to toe bathing is a sight that has beautified the eyes of every beholder in their own mysterious ways.

Bathing in the open or river banks have always been lust centered or associated with physical curves and crudest forms of physical nudity. Often, female bathing in the river or lake waters has been associated with vulgarity and guilty pleasures. The trend which had an innocent effluence since the 70's, 80's, and the 90's is negatively influenced with sexual vulgarities, social misconducts in the forms of rape, molest, and related wrong doings. The feminine which is nature's supreme gift to humankind has faded with mental degradation today.

The ducks with their musical and momentary display of water showers have revived a freshness in my mind which is far beyond the attractions of lust and physical affinities, although physical affinity is an irresistible element of human life.

If we recapitulate our lustful ventures which is a normal discourse of human psychology, it could be inferred that when the mind is extremely disturbed and exhausted, nature turns out to be the greatest healer, much ahead of other distractions.

For a few selected moments, let us overcome the unnecessary manias of the mind with untapped thoughts of nature. These thoughts are lifelike, fresh, and devoid of stagnation of human soul.

Let's rise with the nuances of Nature.