When Hearts Embrace Hearts-14 | Scars stay, Kisses fade away!

When Hearts Embrace Hearts-14

Scars stay, Kisses fade away!

He is a taxi driver in Delhi. Would be 50 plus! Gloomy eyes, but a pleasant and amusing guy to travel with! A poor man, who lost everything in 1984 anti-Sikh riots! During the journey, he recounted his poignant life story.

“I was 19 years old. All thirteen members in our house were butchered – grandparents, young ones and didn’t even spare the toddlers! I became abandoned in my home and my life.  Even now, I think of them all while driving my taxi. I was very close to my youngest sister. I get emotional when see little girls of her age. I can’t control my welling eyes when faces of my loved ones flash before me. I stop the vehicle, park it aside and cry my heart out. And, when feel a little better, wipe my tears and continue the journey...”

When the thorns of memory pierce our hearts, that’s what we can also do – cry, wipe the tears, and move on. There are issues we can’t cope up with. The baggage of such sorrows, we carry throughout our lives. Like the loss of our loved ones! Can’t help it! Just cry, wipe your tears and carry on the journey. 

“The waterwheel accepts water and turns and gives it away, weeping!” Rumi says.

We refer to sorrows as ordeals. Is it fine to be referred so? In fact, it is a test or examination rather than ordeal. Examinations are where we try to pour out how much we have learnt. Isn’t it same with sorrows too? We have gathered so much knowledge, memorized so much, ingrained about faith and belief. The test to see how much all of these helps one to cope up with the situation. An examination to realize how much knowledge gained from books could be of real help in life. One learns to endure by tolerating so much. One learns to stop crying by crying incessantly. Almighty loves those who hold back their tears when they go through heartbreaking experiences. Glittering outfits and heavens of garden are the incentives, says the Scripture.

Grief-stricken and pained minds are like views on a misty morning. Once the mist evaporates, the views become clear. Experiences that make us cry keeps haunting us. As human beings, it’s a natural phenomenon. 

We shouldn’t delay wiping the tears. Distresses inflicted aren’t disaster, but breaking hearts over it, is disastrous! 

Forgot all that moments of happiness and exhilaration! Life keeps seeking its strength from the tears and sorrows that it experienced. Look carefully! The scars of wounds are still there. The kisses have all vanished!