Simple Things
Year Delivered or Published: 2007
Author: Neha Rustagi
Author's Faith: Hindu
Date Submitted to Inspiration and Issues: October 15, 2007
Topic: Personal Religion
There’s something about the ordinary everyday things in life that’s beautiful. Like watching a man put on a jacket and walk toward his car as he prepares to go home from work on a breezy, chilly autumn evening when the sun has set and the trees are transformed into crimson and yellow against a backdrop of clouds waning swirls of deep magenta and ocean blue. Life, with all of its conflicts and intricacies, and pain and unfathomable twists, and love and mirth all tied together in an incomprehensible magical web that makes sense somehow, although you know you’ll never figure it out. I don’t know what life is about, and I don’t think anyone does. I don’t even know if there is a point in trying to figure it out. I think that as you get older, you just realize more and more how much you don’t know and how much you will never know. You learn that anything really is possible at any time. You realize that at the end of the day, the most profound things are really just the simple things that serve as a common denominator for all humanity. Simple things like laughter that bring us all relief and the strength to hold on in the same way, despite our background, culture, or place in life. Simple things like prayer, or faith, or merely hope that carry us through our darkest hours on the knowledge that the tables can always turn. It’s those simple things that keep us going.
