I have this inquisitiveness in me to breeze thru all the comments in any article, be it my own blogs or an article in a news site. And that beautiful day was no exception. Article : ‘Indians rule at Oz’ …and as I was running thru it….I hit on this comment ‘ The Indian win was a miracle’……But,was it one ..??? I grabbed the dictionary on my left and this was the defn. I found.
Mir·a·cle /ˈmɪr ə kəl/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[mir-uh-kuh l]
–noun
- An effect or extraordinary event in the physical world that surpasses all known human or natural powers and is ascribed to a supernatural cause.
- Such an effect or event manifesting or considered as a work of God.
As soon as I read this, I put out of my mind the thought of cricket and started wondering about ….the very word ‘Miracle’.
The definition for the word ‘Miracle’ seems to be changing with Age…..which I found when I was in to do a journalist’s Job…u guessed it a rite...I did a survey…thou in a small scale.
These were the so called results flashed on: (Qn: Define Miracle).
- My Grandma: Her d-in-law abiding to her words
- My mom: Ekta Kapoor directing a soap starting with ‘A’
- My Dad: My Mom asking him to read the newspaper in the morning.
- My Uncle: All his shares soaring in a single day ………
- My Sister: Her hair stops falling down at least for a day.
- My roomie: His girl saying yes for a one night stand.
- My Girlfriend: Her boyfriend (me) telling the truth.
And finally
- My kiddo cousin: The cloud formation representing a DOG in the SUPER BLUE sky.
Take a look again at the results…..and which do you really think is a 'REAL' miracle…according to the definition. I found my ‘yet-to-go-to-school’ kiddo cousin’s answer in frequency.
No matter which dumb part of earth you go, people usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth gazing at the starry night as it walks down the sky with the moon in her hand showering innumerable thoughts across our messy li'l minds or to lay on the youthful beach, fighting the waves with your happy-go-lucky heart.
We are aligned to a miracle in every part of our life yet we choose not to recognize them: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves to name a few. The human mind that breaks the unbreakable and shakes the unshakable, couldn’t just figure the most lucid form of miracles. Caught between time and eternity, we often overlook the ‘real’ miracles that life has to offer and end up cherishing the ‘fake’ ones.
…There are two ways to live:you can live as if nothing is a miracle ; you can live as if everything is a miracle...which way is yours…?
Sid.
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