Being Naked

Coming home after being out in the sweltering heat for nearly 10 hrs, it feels quite good to sit under the fan and drink chilled water. But it feels even better when you start taking off your clothes wet with your sweat. At that point of time, you hate your own smell; the smell similar to that of a stinking pig. Your perfume of 2 grand also seems to have failed in keeping out the stink out of your body. You walk into the bathroom, remove whatever piece of clothing is left on your body, open the shower and walk under it. Aah! So appeasing. You reamin there for quite sometime, with your eyes closed, losing the track of time. You don’t even wipe the water off your body. You let it stay there, to give tha heavenly feeling. You come out with only a towel on (read:half-naked). The cold breeze through the living room window gives you goosebumps. You stand there, try tocatch more of it. Its an experience which you cannot describe. You need to feel it. A very naughty thought crosses your mind. What if you could roam around naked, free from the prying eyes of the world? Remember the time when you were born? I know no one does. But still, you can imagine how it would have felt. It feels so nice when, on a hot night, you switch on the desert cooler/AC and sleep only in your bare essentials. It feels so good to be naked, isn’t it?

The same is true with truth. A “naked” truth is sometimes far better than giving someone or having false hopes. This truth may hurt someone so badly that it may affect your relation with him/her. And sometimes, some truths may have such a scintillating effect on that person that he/she, as a person, may change completely. This change may be for good or bad or it may be as you wanted it to be but nevertheless, the change is so drastic that you may have a hard time getting accustomed to the new person, though it may have reduced your efforts to have your way with him/her.

Sometimes it becomes hard to accept the fact that truth can be so bitter. Why does it become so hard to accept the fact that a truth can be so true, so harsh that it may entirely change your life and your perception towards it? Like it can take your life on a totally different path. Then again, why does it happen that some people can’t accept the facts or they don’t want to accept them? They don’t want to see the world as it is. They put a blindfold on their eyes so that they cannot see the reality what others are already seeing. I do agree there are a few things which you should not accept as they are or there are some situations/truths which should not be disclosed lest you want to create confusion. But sometime in the future you will have to face the facts. You just can’t sit there in your make-believe world and hide away from reality. Facts can be disturbing but they can be more disturbing if you don’t disclose them or face them at the moment it is in front of us. In my opinion there is no such thing as the right moment/time. Every moment is a right moment. It is said that if God gives you all the worries in the world, He also gives you the courage or strength to face and fight them. The earlier you disclose the truth or face the facts, the better it would be. Initially it may sting like a bee, but when the fact would sink in, it would be a very sweet experience, though not so fast but eventually it would, when you look walk down your past memory lane. Like it happens when you are naked; initially it feels cold when you are wet and the cold wind blows. But after sometime, it feels so comforting and soothing.

On the same lines, it is very important to know what people think of you or letting others know what you think about them. It is of no use keeping everything under covers or avoiding and ignoring facts because momentary ignorance may give you bliss but would hamper your relations with others in the long run. Until and unless you face the music, how will know where you stand? If you are brave enough to take a step with dire consequences, then you should be equally brave to face the truth or result. But you know what it all comes down to trust or faith. You need to have faith in the result. You need to keep faith that whatever the truth may be, it will be for your own good. It would never happen that some truth may be so hurting in nature that it can never be for your good. If someone is going away from you or you are going to lose out in some race, never think that you would never gain anything from out of it or you don’t have a chance for better than the current position. You will be done justice but eventually. It may take sometime but again, you have to keep faith in time. Faith in yourself, in others and in your destiny written by the highest power above us. A faith so strong yet so simple like the one we have in the cold breeze which you trust would relieve off the heat.