Celebration of commotion in the city.

Submitted into Contest #85 in response to: Start your story with the line, “That’s the thing about this city…”... view prompt

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Contemporary Creative Nonfiction Desi

That's the thing about this city...You will come here all alone as a ignorant being but this city will give you gifts of realities that will urge you to live a life of soulfulness. Varanasi is a vibrant city of India blessed with river ganga and lost in it's own mysteries. This land has witnessed so many things in so many different ways and to avoid confrontations among different lifestyles among different mentalities different believes this city blends all of them into one. And that's makes this place mysterious. It's really very hard to imagine its existence in separate and a single culture . Once it will make you realise that this place is hub of true knowledge and something related to years of research and on other side you will find something simple yet intresting or kind of thing you are already aware of but never bring that into practice and that's the tradition of this beautiful place to give respect to both sagacious knowledge and also to simple and layman kind of knowledge .One thing will remain common to us when we act as a guide to any city we generally confined ourselves to the all good character and qualities of that place. It will be not true and justifying also to say Varanasi has many horrifying qualities also for tourists because what this city had thought me is that places have divine qualities it's us human being and human systems who distort that divine qualities.The spirituality lies here in its purest form. Visiting historical sites historical buildings is not enough what is more important here to to feel past to feel your presence in past to and to praise your eyes for recognising that connection and to your mind for experiencing that the live this divine creation . A guide will tell you something professional but your mind will tell you something intellectual and this will further unlock your way towards realisation of what's the purpose of your life.Here you will find loosers and winners both are struggling to survive in their own way. One who has conquered his or her fear of life and death and struggling to bring celebration from the commotion from the uncertainty from the dilemma of delight and plight is a winner. And this city embrace that winner with the blissfulness of its beauty. The loosers will suffer because they are more of materialistic view they will find everything just in the way of their material manifestation leaving back their spritual existence. Even if sights of poverty is aching the pleasure of thought to serve some of your life in doing something for the betterment for the humankind will make you feel your worth your purpose and will fetch your inspiration out of that struggling fellows who are facing threats to their life and on the other hand challenging death every time.

Kind of commotion that this city emits is so connecting in the sense of experiencing different shades of life different shades of glory and degradation as well as. How the evolution reflects its roots how the civilizations always holds something core to them core to their existence is so palpable on the land of Varanasi. Let me tell you a intresting thing with the help of a incidence. I saw a young girl was sitting around the ghats of Varanasi she was lying between the thought of" I'm happy and I'm not happy" a boy was sitting next to her was close but away from her she was struggling hard to get the clarity of life to get the reality of life may be she had some traumatizing experiences.A little girl of 12 or 13 came to her and said so innocently "Didi will you please bought some balloons from me." The girl responded furiously "balloons will get burst easily why I will invest my money on such useless thing." The little girl with balloons responded innocently "I just asked you and look at you!! you are also bursting out of anger when you don't want to invest money on my balloons because they get burst easily think once why someone will invest love in you when you keep on bursting easily ". Even a kid can give you a way to enlightenment here. Because the life has shown so much of realities to them in even in their young ages.They know how to compromise between the glamour of world and struggle for a meal and how to cherish that hope of happiness even if the hope is so vague. The diversity of Indian culture that constitute so many languages so many styles so many cultures use to flow with the river Ganga . Things have been gone under several change sometimes its aching sometimes it pleasure giving but matter of the fact is that the even if the ambiance of environmental purity is remained not so pure the spiritual purity is still intact . But the difficulty to experience that is increasing gradually. The stories the mythology the festivals the customs all are so appealing but the living spirit of the city the call of spirituality is something that makes this city so enlightening so awakening. It's easy to get lost in the crowd in the rush but it's not easy to get lost in the celebration of commotion this city offers to their tourists. And for that purpose you need to surrender completely you need to drag your attention drag your thoughts your existence to this city. Once you manage to do this you will achieve salvation you will achieve celebration of the city of the life. No matter what this modernity will bring to this city how far that thing will affect the structure of this place this ghats this buildings the soul of Varanasi will be there always intact because you can't destroy what is immoral you can not kill someone who is immortal this civilization is immortal and increadible. Lessons of live is really important to lead a life related to our satisfaction and this place offers you a lot of lessons a lot of exploration.This is Varanasi a city which celebrates its commotion its civilization its presence and its essence of spirituality....

March 15, 2021 08:23

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Claudia Morgan
16:19 May 09, 2021

Great story!

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03:01 Mar 25, 2021

The blog does not meet the prompt. Blogger simply praises the city. Terms like 'what the city had thought me' 'with the help of a incidence' only reveal lack of adequate knowledge of English' Blogger strengthen your English and focus on what the prompt needs! CRITIQUE CIRCLE

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