Light the Path - Essay

Light the path-   This is the Essay that was submitted to District contest..though it didnt make it to prize winning,  worth sharing for what makes Inner Wheel in our lives is drawn from its unknowing presence that makes it worth ......

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…….the woods are tall and sky is dark.  Here and there few stars shine.  The moon is hiding behind the dark clouds like a new bride.  There is silence.  Silence of a woman who is in pain, who is in despair, who is in helplessness and who is lonely fighting the life’s battles.  She is quiet looking at the dark sky.  Her heart has no hopes or thoughts. 

She closed her eyes in prayer.  Prayers seeking help.  And support to make her comfortable.  She slept off in fear and lonely night dawned with the first ray of sun falling on her tired face.  Her tired eyes opened slowly.  The first sight of sun rays brightened her tired face.   She stood up slowly but steadily… she could see the new path of hope and light that can take her forward.  In the distance, she could hear the sounds of flowing waters from the brooks and crippling of the birds in the forest.  A spontaneous smile invades her tired face.  She looked beautiful and stunning with the sun rays on her.  Yes, she found the light.  She found the path. She will move on.

A monkey hopping from one tree to another, playfully threw a fruit towards her.  Hunger reminded her to grab it fast and eat it too.  She walked to the brook and took a plunge in the stream and started to enjoy her bath.   The water looked clean.  Fresh water made her drink a gulp and she realized how thirsty she was.  The thirst for truth, hope and for life.  Where else she can find all this at a time, than in the dense forest filled with nature and free from modern hassles of the outside world.   Her eyes shined bright.

She sat on a rock.  Took the twigs around and started to drum on the tighten skin of a dead animal.  The sounds emerged from her drums made from no where… made the birds around making wonderful sounds.  She knew she is educating them.  The cuckoos answering her sounds made her get up and walk towards the trees.  She found a fleet of swans flying ahead in the direction against the winds.  A beautiful v shape that made the leader take the route to fly and the fleet just follows making the winds shy away in pride.  Above all the birds, the girl saw an eagle.  Uninterrupted by the sudden showers of rain drops that come from dancing clouds.  Yes, the eagle is flying just above the clouds.  The giant bird.  An undisputed leader.   The girl just wished that she relives like an eagle. With pride.  With wisdom and with power.    

The woman is none other than the one who found her inner self.  Her true inner self.  Her immense strength and power.  Her Inner Wheel.   The wheel that makes her drive away fears, empower the inbuilt strengths.   The passion for self-esteem and self-respect makes her a true woman.  Yes, she is none other than you and I.  Every one who is part of Inner Wheel just ahead to light the path.   Towards a new dawn.

-          Written By Umasree Raghunath,

President, Inner Wheel Club of Madras South