Dear Selene

By Abhishek Gupta

It was nice sharing my thoughts with you
Hope they were not too disturbing
They were just the reality of this life
In a way that I felt
But I respect your way too
If they are for the benefit of humanity
I love writing about different people
Especially from whom I get to learn something about this life
Hope to meet you soon

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Dec 21, 2016
• ISBN: 9781524667542

Book preview

1. Their God and My God

Christians have their Jesus

Muslims have their Allaha

Hindus have their own millions of Gods

Buddhists have their Buddha

But why when we sit together, we don’t have a common God

For everyone their God is supreme

For everyone their believes are superior and correct

Imagine a new born baby, what is his religion?

The one that the parents have or follow?

What if the father is Christian and the Mother is Hindu?

Then will you impose both the religions on him?

Like this the child will be left searching for the answers for his whole life.

But if we read science and religious scripts

All have one thing in common

And these are assumptions

One God created the universe, a man and a woman

One Big Bang created the universe and then everything was formed

But this man or woman had no idea who created them

Hence they lived in peace

What changed then in the following years?

Those who wanted superiority created Gods, to create something to be followed

Those were educated, gave science all the credits

And waited and worked on improving everything and making life more complicated

I am confused and hence I compare myself to a Dog

He has got no God

His God is one who feeds him

And what eventually feeds us all is the Nature

I believe my God is Nature

His God is the person who keeps him happy

So my God is my family and my friends

Or my good is everything that I see and feel from which I get a smile

His happiness is roaming around freely

So my God is the whole world which I can travel

He doesn’t pray, but himself hunts for his desires

So my God is my hard Work.

2. Reality of a Celebration

In this celebration everyone has smiles on their faces

But every smile has hidden pain beside it

There is a lack of effort of starting a conversation and numbness in the desire to express

They want to share a lot but there is a lack of start and push to lead the conversation

When someone asked how everything with someone is, the question was avoided with a smile as an answer

Then it was clear, that even that person has suffered so far in life with a certain amount of the share

Then few more drinks were poured down and the conversation went ahead

Every time when someone cried, someone offered the shoulder to cry on

Whereas some tried to cheer the person up

There is every kind of people in a celebration

But true friends are only those, who can wipe of your tears before these tears actually come out

Even I poured down a drink to the name of my Happiness

But still there was no true happiness in my Heart

The sorrow was not there for being happy or not getting the happiness

It was there because I was not able to forget what brought that sadness at the first place

Then the drinks went on and slowly and steadily everyone slept

One night a never ending sleep will come

And in that sleep even the life will sleep forever

And at that time there will be no drinks or no celebration

If there will be something it will be the last conversation with the last passing breathes

Then the heart will point out, that look for whatever you ran so much to find happiness in that

Today lies behind and you have to leave every that thing behind and go in a different world

No conditions applied and no exceptions ever thrived

Then you will find a smile that you always looked for

A smile which comes out of having no fear to lose everything at that very moment

When the eyes will close, the whole life will flash back in a couple of minutes

Then neither will the eyes get wet or any tear will drop

As the life teaches us to say goodbye since the very time we enter this world in its own way

So a final goodbye also to this celebration and these people

Who are still putting up with their smile and still hiding their desires and cries.

3. Endless Desires

The cold always gives a desire for the warmth

But the warmth leads to a desire for little chilled atmosphere

Like this one thing creates the desire for another opposite thing

But what confuses me is pain

Why is it that, when pain always leads a desire for relief and joy

Then why does not joy lead a desire for pain rather than for more joy

When we laugh, why don’t we then desire to cry?

This is not a problem but rather it is a disease

Disease of desiring only for the best and for what keeps our comfort at its place

But for the best there is always something which has to serve as the base of its growth till the best

Just like a natural law of nature which is unavoidable

That is Death is a desire of Life too, as Life also wants to rest in the end

So be at peace with what you have

And just be satisfied with basics and work for the best

But don’t desire for the best because there is something always better than the best

And remember desires too have no end

And sometimes all desires are not worth desiring they can be sometimes just be a Mirage in this desert of desires.

4. Don’t Need Your Approval

My life has its own plus and negatives

The shoes I walk in are meant just for me to walk across this life

If I want to go right, then I know why I did not take the left

And if I just write instead of type, then I know what I am better at

I won’t judge you for not doing what I think is write

As you are making the journey whose details and past only you truly know about

But I will respect every decision you take

As I would not have been able to make the decision had I been given a chance to wear your shoes

And I expect the same if nothing at all from anyone of you

I will do what is best for my survival and I will take the path best for my journey

Today you can laugh at my decisions

Tomorrow you can mock me for the results that I got from my decisions

But still you will never realize why I took these decisions

And in which mud was my foot stuck that it became so difficult to take it out of there

So I hope that you realize that I did not ask to become what I am today

But it is the outcome of the experiences that I had so far in my life

I have been through few ups and downs of the life

But I never regret the decisions I took

The decisions I took to keep the happiness high

Or to keep the sorrows low or negligible

But today as I write this line

I put in one more experience behind and learn something more from the day

I will have a new vision tomorrow and I will be asked from life to take more decisions

And don’t worry I won’t be waiting for your approval

And I will never hope that you should too wait for my approval

All I want is your journey to end the way you wanted it not the way others wanted it

As you started this journey on your own

And mark my words

Even with everything by your side in this world

You will end this journey on your own without your own approval.

5. Smile of Others

We all have a problem in always being able to smile

But I have learnt and developed a way for myself to smile always

I get a smile on my face when I see other people smiling

I smile at a beggar who smiles when he gets a penny

I smile at a girl who is busy smiling with her phone, probably receiving compliments from someone that how beautiful she is

I smile at a baby who is happy and surprised to see many things for the first time in life

I smile at the mother who is busy keeping her baby happy and satisfied

I smile at the couple which is exchanging smiles with each other while being lost in love

I smile at the guy sitting in a car and is happy to see a green signal

I smile at the old people who are happy to live another day and to share their experiences

I smile at my friends who are hiding their pains behind their smiles

I smile at the teacher who is trying hard to make a boring lecture interesting

I smile at the sweeper who cleans everything without a single complain

I smile at my mother who is satisfied after asking the same questions everyday on the phone to make sure I am happy

I smile at the people who are not smiling as their faces don’t seem normal to me anymore

In the end while sleeping I smile for being able to smile the whole day

That is how I smile

I smile at everything and you can call me crazy or insane

But I have brought a smile on your face too

And I am glad that you are smiling because of me

That is how you learn from others how to smile and how to spread smiles.

6. Picture not captured

It was a normal class going on

Some showed little interest, some showed normal interest and well some did not bother themselves at all

Me, I had mixed reactions

But I was distracted by what was going outside the windows

There was a slow and steady change in the color of the sky as the time was passing by

In the middle of taking down the notes and trying to understand what the teacher explained

I was trying to take a peek outside the window every now and then

It was not late when I realized that something different was going outside

Something which I had never experienced before

And today I can say that something I will never experience again

The time went by and I interested myself in the change of colors more

And lost all the interest in what was going on in the class

And I was so engrossed in observing the change that I forgot that the time is passing by

Then happened something which not even Shakespeare would be able to explain in his words

And not even someone could have painted in his dreams

It was something beyond anyone’s imagination

When I was trying to look out of the two windows, both on the opposite side of the room

The teacher said That’s all for today and have a nice evening and she turned towards the window

She took a seat and was trying to appreciate what we all were admiring at the same moment

Everyone got up and took out their expensive phones and cameras

And tried hard to capture the scenario

They were trying to capture something that I had no strength to capture

As a picture from the best camera could not even capture what we were seeing

From one widow we could see the sun setting

And at the very same time through another window we could see the moon coming up from a far end

They were trying to capture both of the heavenly phenomenons at the same time

I and my teacher sat their numb

Then she got up and asked who had captured the best photo

No one raised their hands or offered a view of what they had captured

No one was actually able to capture it

Then she laughed and said Well some things can never be captured by a human technology, but only captured in their hearts

I was left numb from what I heard and what I witnessed

Something’s can really never be captured by a camera or any other technology

But only by your heart

And that is the specialty of the creator

He will create a whole life of yours in several pictures

Which no one will ever have on their phones or cameras

But if you have truly personified their lives, then they will be carrying your pictures in their heart

Just like that view which was not captured by any camera but was captured by my heart.

7. Date with Phones

I sat there in a corner of a bar filled with people