A Boat in Time.

A Boat in Time.

By: Sangita Bhatt

Do not know what had overcome me. I am not a natural fish, and do not take to fishing, swimming or even taking a boat to the river. So this was an adventure. It was an unstoppable impulse that made me decide to spend my day rowing a boat down the river.

It is already past noon, and I have, I think,just traveled enough. The Boat is stopped, at one end of the river. There is no turbulence in the water, save for the waves and ripples caused due to the gentle breeze. There is calm and peace. All that is around can be seen clearly in the water - the blue, the green,the white, the glimmer of gold and so on.

I looked at it all, it was magic! It was as if I was out of breadth and had just started breathing again. Lost touch of my bearings and was hit, rather struck, by this moment of truth and realization. All this time I was moving in it. It was all around me, moving with me. I was a part of it and seemed to undermine it. It was just there, and this was natural. THIS is the life giving force upon this planet. So clear, crystal, and hence flowing. I wonder why people say a rolling stone gathers no mass. Does it have to? it rolls in these clear, flowing waters. It moves with it, and allowing this flowing reality to mold and shape it. In return it helps keep the purity of the water, remaining clean itself.

Slowly, I looked at it...in awe... and could see myself like a child looking at a mirror for the very first time. This floating mirror, showed me my reflection, inside out. I was above and below it and also in it. This flowing reality has been there since time immemorial. It was the first present thing before any other life form was created upon this earth. It was water every where before land and life emerged. It is such an important living existing part of our history and I never looked at it that way until now. Until this very moment.

It mirrored the TIME. The time when I broke free from it, and was declared born into this world; till this day that I was looking at it and was realizing that, had I ever broken away from it. It was in and around me, and was needed by me in order to live. It was and has been a part of my life and every creature upon this Earth.

This was a memorable moment, it was a journey through time and a moment to reckon the Truth. I decided to turn back and to move on in future; keeping in mind the reverence of this moment.