Love Hath No Fury

Getting things fall in line by being cantankerous and super-duper scary is the easy way out. It is also the messy way out, leaves back indelible scars. It does not require skill or forethought or even patience. None of the cultivated and cultured skills come into use. What does get picked up and refueled from your resource basket is savagery, misdirected angst, screaming banshee like costumes and vocal notes and potent venom. And no, I am not being over dramatic here. Sometimes, I think being the hard task master in life, on yourself and all around, takes a lot more out. It saps you of love, peace and calm. Even the tasks achieved and the milestones collected refuse to show themselves in a glorious heap. They too pile up crammily and resemble a lot like work left undone and you hurriedly stash them in drawers and closets, without really having the spirit in you to celebrate them and savour them till they deflate into two dimensional moments, ready to be pinned up in the scrapbook of life.

But nurturing on the other hand, takes an awful lot of out you but replenishes and rejuvenates like a sprinkler in a garden left open. Nurturing and love take time, patience and maybe a few things slip by from in between the gaps in the delayed schedules...but the sunrise on the mountain is cherished and embellished in your mind. It is at your beck and call, to radiate its warmth and energy when your reserves run low. Smile at your babies, a lot. Smile when HE comes home. Smile the smile that reaches your eyes and lights up the house. Hold all, everything and everybody, with gentleness. Let them always feel wanted and protected. Look into their eyes and hold their gaze, sample their love, taste their fears and live their joys. The red balloon from wherein the world appears red, the green balloon that can be a telephone too..throwing your voice into it and hearing it change, echo…can change your world view, your games, your idea of fun and time. Sometimes being suspended in timelessness is the best-est way to spend time, to be together. Laugh, a lot and watch everything around come to life and perform for you. It can be quite a show, a pity if you missed out that one. Cherish and be cherished. Draw them in with love and calm. Snuggle. You need the warmth as much as they do. Sometimes more than them, you need to be not cold. You are the sun. So rise, smile and bring out the sunshine, it sustains life. You sustain life.