Rays of hope

Last weekend, I was a bit too busy on my home computing – thanks to my operating system crash. Every time, I have been lucky to have an extremely understanding PC, not to die on week days, always on a weekend, so that I can lovingly tend to it over the weekend.

Quite a few good memories spring up during such exercises. This sunset image was one of the "finds" while organizing my data.

It was a lazy weekend evening when all of us were going towards Juhu Beach in the car along with my cousin. Nature has a wonderful mind of its own and luckily we had to be there when it decided to unleash a very special sunset.

Way before the sunset we saw these fantastic rays of sunlight moving out from the horizon and all across the sky, from behind the clouds. It was an extraordinary and mesmerizing sight to see the beautiful rays of the setting sun piercing an orange-blue sky.

I am always a happy sunset clicker as I am too lazy to go out and click a sunrise. Besides, God has been helping my laziness by providing the sea to our west, which makes it all the more easier for me to be a sunset freak.

I wonder how unhappy all the people on the east coast of our country must be – perhaps to wake up early morning if they want to capture a spectacular sunrise over the sea.

However a sunset has always been a wonderful philosophy to me. It represents an end. An end to something beautiful – the day. Perhaps it is God’s way of telling us that all that is good and all that is beautiful must eventually end.

An end means the start of a new beginning. However to welcome the new beginning, man requires tremendous hope and faith during the end. To be able to see the light in the end.

This picture re-affirms my faith. An end is never sad after all - for it will always bring a new beginning – a new you and a new day to undo all the mistakes and the hurts you gave the world yesterday. The rays of the setting sun symbolize hope in to the future. An anticipation of the good to come, like sunlight piercing the darkness of a dark room through tiny holes in the wall, shedding the darkness away. They are a a hope cause it means the end of the darkness.

The choice however is always ours, to make our future based on our past, or work on it today. It could be our career or our relations. Unfortunately as humans, we choose always to dwell on the hurts of yesterdays to scar our future, rather than forgiving and forgetting the past and working today anew to make a better and happy future.