How to make a Rainbow

          It showered here today, immediately after which there was clear sunshine. This resulted in that semicircle of the seven-colored spectrum – a rainbow.

          I watched it from my rooftop. Well, I had gone to see if I could get drenched in some rainy wind, but the shower was a little too short for that. However, I was fortunate enough to catch this phenomena which appears when the sunlight gets dispersed by the water droplets still present in the sky.

          It gave me a train of thoughts, which leads me to write this piece at this time.

           When you are in an unhindered relation with nature, it always, always does one of the two things: either it bestows you with new memories, or resurrects the old ones. With me today, it was the latter.

          This directed me to make a comparison. What I am trying to achieve in life looks like a rainbow. What are the similarities? First of all, both the rainbow of the sky and the rainbow of a perfect life, look colorful. Secondly, both of them are not very straight. Thirdly, and perhaps to an extent, they are the end results of some defined process.

          The rainbow in the sky requires necessary conditions. For the first thing, there has to be rain.

          In my case, the rain is my hard work. My inputs – knowledge, learning, experience – work like the water vapor collected through evaporation. My daily work forges them into thick, dark clouds – which is, say, the weapon set I have ere the battle begins. Then how I rain – how and how much I use these weapons – is my application of my collection, my exhibition. Oftentimes, dark clouds cannot manage to rain, or sometimes do not find the right spot to rain. However, rain is important.

          But rainbows are not seen on daily-basis in the rainy season. Which introduces us to the necessity of the second very important condition: sunshine.

          In my view, the sunshine is the divine order. Is my vision the same as a perfect vision of the Creator? Does the Soul of the Universe want me to do or get this? Is the Supreme Energy on my side? Does the sun agree to shine?

          Both the factors weigh the same. You may work hard and may not receive it, and some other person may not work for it at all and it might come to him effortlessly.

          Well, you can take this train to yet more stations. A rainbow might appear, but a person standing at the wrong place might not be able to see it. It might be that something blocks the view from someone’s line of sight, and he may be deprived of its sight. Which means that not everyone may be able to value your success exactly the same. Some will relish it, delighted by it, some will click pictures, some will stare with goggle-eyes, whereas some might try to turn their backs on it.

          Such metaphors of nature come with tons of meanings. Maybe it is in us humans’ genes to try and find connotations and denotations in all what we see, that we try to take inspiration from everything: rivers, trees, jungles, waterfalls and rainbows.

          Well, when I was satisfied watching this spectacle, and just when I was about to get back to my room, another fact about a rainbow struck my mind, leaving me staggered: Every rainbow, however spectacular, is short-lived and ephemeral; no rainbow can last forever!