MY WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY

MY WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY

At home, I go out of my constant and plain room environment when I watch the scenario through my window. Every morning or sometimes afternoon when I wake up, I first open the curtains of the windows of my room. The sun’s rays would be too bright for me to look at then, so I just open them and go for my daily morning routine.

After a, perhaps, tiring routine, getting to think for me, alone, with just me and my simple thoughts or my incredible thoughts, I feel like myself again. I think, I just think about my day, about my life in general, my habits, etc. I think and I observe some things...I apply my observations to my concept. I continue thinking. This is the best me-time I get, second to that before bedtime. This me-time is heavily crucial and necessary as one should be aware of what’s going on in life rather than just going with the flow and realizing or regretting later. I’ve always pushed myself to make me and regret disjoint sets.

Communicating with real people is great, but it’s a totally different and important experience being alone and thinking by being awake, actually, not just from sleep.

Sometimes, I look through my kitchen window, better known as a balcony, when I go there to have water. I sing songs, aloud…standing there. I feel free, relaxed, relieved.

The view through the window is always great. We can see life through the window, perhaps most of the life. 

Life is beautiful, yet weird and incomprehensible sometimes. We lose determination, motivation to do hard work or smart work, or any work quite often, which is disgusting.

So, I watch the scene…the plants, the wind, the dogs and sometimes cats, the garbage, the people, the apartments, the sky, all these in and around an open plot of land beside our apartment. I feel that apartments are worse if they’re so close together and leave no space for at least circulation of air. I am very grateful for the open plot. I find hope in life and also awareness through my window.

Plants, which are so lively, remind me of the incredible things I am missing. I shall try to implement the missing good in my life, I say to myself. Those plants make me realize daily, again and again, that everything’s going to be fine. They are an incredible symbol of liveliness, I wonder. 

Most importantly, the wind through windows is awesome. Only if it’s cold though, as it’s always almost like summer here. Before the drizzles of rain, there comes an awesome cool wind. It’s honestly so cool. Just appreciating the wind with eyes closed, thoughts floating peacefully in my mind is the best part of my window.

Watching dogs makes me feel that life is difficult sometimes. It’s important to work hard. Dogs search for their own food with so much difficulty that I find it awakening. We should work hard in order to obtain anything. This gives me the determination to do things. And yes, I do give the dogs food often. I carry empathy with me.

The garbage? It’s awful to see beautiful plants in open spaces with garbage among them. This is a major environmental issue, which is again awakening to me. I sometimes give speeches on environmental issues to myself watching through the window. It’s very important to know what’s actually happening in the world and it comes powerfully through practical observation and exploration, not by just reading something or listening to someone.

I see this as an opportunity to make the world a better place by educating people about environmental issues and by trying to solve them.

Looking at apartments, I feel that they are not so good. Yeah, they consume less space, so save land, but they are suffocated. I see apartments and I rarely see people living in them. Many people have their doors and most of all the windows closed all time. I feel pity for the Incredibles they are missing. Although, some people come out to the balcony, or see through windows like me. I feel like there’s still some hope. I feel happy.

The sky is vast. It’s huge, with clouds and stars in it, both in the morning and night. This shows the persistence and responsibility of nature, which I seek from it. I see the very bright sun giving enormous energy continuously all day. Bright white stars twinkling, even though they mightn’t appear so, are fascinating in the plain black sky at night. Stars make me wonder about the fullness of astronomy, the fullness of physics. Clouds also show the cycle of rain; evaporation, precipitation, which makes me think that life is wholesome. These really tiny things give great ideas to me, they let me know that there’s a lot of opportunity in this world, I just need to avail it.

I always love observing; observing huge and clearly visible things, observing minor yet crucial things; it’s awesome. Whenever I feel that I want to take a break from my work daily, I pause what I am doing and observe through my window.

I have always believed that observation and awakedness are more crucial than concentration. Any action done will attain perfection only if minor details are observed. 

Through observation, we see real problems; problems of ours or others. We feel empathetic and try to solve the problem and make the situation better. This is true with everything.

There’s lot of opportunity in the world like finding solutions to environmental issues, personal issues, land issues or making major/minor advances in science, math. We just need to look out for them and try to pick some to solve or make the situation better.

I watch and interpret the whole scenario. Then, I finish drinking water or I feel that I should go back to my tasks. I stop observing through the window and start my work, which might be great on its own but the perfect relaxation, relief, awakedness obtained through observation, knowing what’s happening outside, not neglecting minor things, thinking about life peacefully, yet in an awakened state, is just awesome.

I love my life, I think in myself.

I continue my work, wholesomely this time. 

Written by,

Pokkula Vaishnavi,

Telangana, India