Giving Substance - Dews in our hearts and minds :)

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I was thinking about the word substance today. What the beautiful adjective does it make..... 'substantial'!


I was thinking whether only the things that carry substance is important or also the things that do not carry the substance is also important? How much important are our hard work and efforts if they are not given any substance? We do hard work to get a substantial result. We get substantial result maybe, in the form of a report card or any other thing that we have produced. We pride to give a substance to our hard work. But what about the music lovers who play the music when they are free? This art or act of theirs is in the air, it pleases the minds and ears of some music lovers for some time and the sound vanishes in the air as soon as the music is stopped being played! I wonder, how important is this art when it vanishes it's substance and exist no more!What about the volunteer workers who serve the community and vanish? Many of the times, we never know how the community developed and who contributed in the survival of the community or other non-profit-organisations. What about the people who have great ideas but never bother to write or speak and the ideas of the people vanish along with the thinker's existence!



Mother's love is so much valuable. She is 100% concerned and involved in the growth and development of her child. What is the substance of her care and love when the children become independent? I mean, if we just assume that all beautiful feelings can be given a form or substance, how much space we would need on this planet to make all those invisible but valuable feelings substantial! No doubt, Mother's love and care change as per the age of the children. The involvement and concerns change the shape and form but it is still the same kind of feeling. We experience different types of feelings every time. Once, we get mature, we start choosing and deciding, what feeling should be demonstrated to gain what substance? We may choose to direct our feelings towards result oriented substance!



Positive thoughts and helpful emotions lie in the great mess of our minds. They vanish as the dew drops, in the air, no doubt, leaving moisture behind that in the atmosphere, and if the person comes late in that environment, the moisture also vanishes and the person misses the experience and feel of that moisture.


How about catching the dew drops in the camera and giving them the existence in the form of photo? It would not give the viewer the idea of how it 'feels' being in the environment having moisture but it would certainly please the minds of the people while viewing the photographs of the dew drops and definitely, to some extent, would be able to imagine the feeling that such charismatic atmosphere brings! So awake, arise and give substance to every dew drop that lies in your mind and create that moisture in the form of words, spoken or written, in the form of hug or kiss, or the form that best suits your comfort level and let the other person feel 'the feel'. Let us give substance of all our positive energy that flows in our hearts and minds!




Before I leave, a beautiful quote, "There is dew in one flower and not in another, because one opens its cup and takes it in, while the other closes itself and the drop runs off. So God rains goodness and mercy as wide as the dew, and if we lack them, it is because we do not open our hearts to receive them." - James H. Aughey