Capturing the “Stillness on a summer afternoon”

Today since morning, I woke up thinking stillness. I looked outside my balcony and the trees were still, the sky was cloudy, as if pregnant with thousands bolts of lightning inside, waiting for the right time to explode. I paused and looked outside. I switched on my computer but couldn’t get myself to sit at home and work. So I decided to walk down to the cafe.

Right now, I am sitting at the New Deal Cafe. The cafe has big windows and when you look outside, you can see beautiful flowers of different colors – yellow, pink, white. There is greenery all around. The weather is perfect, you really don’t need air-conditioning. The walls are painted orange and blue. The tables are covered with red linen. The chairs are antique. At one end of the cafe there is a raised stage which comes alive usually in the evenings when there are musical performances. A man sitting behind the wall is playing away on the keyboard, filling notes in an otherwise quiet afternoon. The sun plays hide and seek, the leaves swaying gently as if dancing to the rhythm of this beautiful sunny perfect restful afternoon.

On a restful afternoon, I experience a perfect symphony. Harmony that is so missing from our lives. At this time, my fingers flow on the keyboard, words waiting to be written. Sometimes life just becomes effortless, as it does now. Life is in the pauses, we might run and hurry… but what we really need are the pauses… to immerse ourselves in this beautiful symphony and experience the harmony.

Sometimes the little things add such an interesting twist to a very mundane, routine life…..