Have you ever seen an angel ? I have. You only see them if you believe in them.
A recent article in the Gulf News said that a taxi driver who earns AED 2000 per month returned AED 23000 to the rightful owner who accidently left it behind. It would have taken him 2 years without spending any money to earn it back. And to top it all he seemed so happy! Makes me wonder if I would do it? And I was transported back to my college days when I used to stamp my foot and hold my breath for more pocket money and was never happy with anything at all.
Complaining and cribbing about everything
I hate studying and I can’t even sing
If you ask me what I did most in college or what I was really good at, the answer is really one thing – Complaining.
The computer teacher looks like Mr. Bean !
The canteen food is really mean.
I did this for 3 years. It was probably the only ritual in my whole life that I pursued with passion and continuity.
Then by some stroke of luck I managed to complete my education and was shooed off to work in the big bad world.
From a cozy nest called home into the great city of Mumbai.
This experience made me see something I had never seen before.
My first day at work and my first time living out of home – It was the first time I had to think of my next meal. It was like the first day at kindergarten where the boss looked as scary as the headmistress with a whip and the receptionist like the matron with a baton in hand. And when I came home I realized something was wrong upon Cloud no. 9.
I had to stop relying on the world’s most reliable alarm clock a.k.a mother, get used to sulky roommates of different gigabytes and megahertz and stop insisting that the food had to be warmed up to X degree centigrade. I had started taking everything for granted. 3 meals a day, a doting family, a clean house and all other things that happen on their own when you don’t even bat an eyelid. Suddenly everything stopped. And I realized that nothing could be taken for granted anymore. Not your next meal, not your daily television program, not your landlady who wants to charge you for peeping into the headlines of her newspaper every morning.
I started seeing angels not because I soon got my first salary cheque but because when I was put under the test of fire I really saw and truly felt the smiles even in times of pain. It took me a journey from a cozy comfortable nest called home to the dog eat dog world to realize that.
You can see the angels when you see children doing homework under the street lights and when your landlord cracks silly jokes despite being terminally ill.
The angels compliment you for your efforts also give you constructive criticism.
These angels teach you that liking what you get is more important than getting what you like. The angels are within you, within your neighbor and even your boss! They are in the early morning rays, the blooming flowers and the desert sands.
They teach you that everything in life happens for a reason. They teach you that failures and setbacks cannot deter you forever. They give you hope. They teach you to get up and get going. The sun may have a sinking feeling every evening but comes up bright and shining in the morning.
See the angels around you.
Believe in them.
See the beauty in this world.
See how it changes your life forever.
Abba sings this beautifully –
I have a dream, a song to sing
To help me cope with anything
If you see the wonder of a fairy tale
You can take the future even if you fail
I believe in angels
Something good in everything I see
