All Salute the Rising Star

It is said that all is relative. Someone rightly said, the more the riches the more the relatives one has, & the lesser you have, the more people shy away from you. It is a materialistic world full of different jinxed people, some jinxed with wealth, others with ego, & the rest going crazy over their swanky dreams. The feeling or the pinch to be great is the most dominant amongst them all. This greatness comes in the form of popularity, money or some other package that looks glitzy, glamorous & gorgeous, making you feel the same way. Once you have these, you are recognized & well accepted by the society.
Stars keep on hovering over us, in the eternal space. These stars even though look insignificant for any human causes, are great in their own way. They are insignificant & of not any use, because we don’t extract any benefit from these stars. Except for some catastrophes like, flares, pulsars & the magnetic emissions from these heavenly bodies, that in turn keeps on disrupting the delicate balance of our mother earth. The Stars are born from a dormant zero value, just like humans. They grow big, start to shine & spread out light. The bigger the star the more it has the tendency to outgrow its neighbors, the shine of those adjacent neighbors slowly but steadily fades away.
The life cycle of humans is more or less like the life cycle of stars. The humans also tend to struggle in their lives, to strive & stride for their goals. The human nature is to slog it hard, toil it & soil et al to achieve even the unachievable & the unthinkable. This way we humans achieve our big feats & conquer big mountains. This is the dawn, a new beginning. A new horizon, a new peak in the life. Dreams get realized & the targets are met. With the turmoil’s and uprisings inside, man keeps on going with his whimsical dreams & unquenched desire for more. Many a sacrifices go into this making of the success. This success has no calling card, no address, & one has to chart out his own strategy & game plan to achieve the so called an elated feeling of “success”.
Success is all his, along with the pain, sorrow & tears. There are some times that are the valleys in this elated feeling. At these times if man peeps inside for some introspecting, can see it easily, as at these grim times his heart is the truest reflection of his mind & vice versa. He relishes his success calls along with his stumbling failures. He has the humility to accept his faults in the failing & tough times, & a jovial cheerful mood in the triumphant times of his life. They tend to become part & parcel of his life, just like 2 tracks of a railroad. He adapts, evolves & adjusts to his new way of life. He tries not to leave anything as a void, & tries to accomplish all that comes for his perusal. These tough times try him even more, wear him even more to bring out the complete, fine, polished man in him. He becomes stronger & an idol of idealism for others. It takes a lot of penance to keep the mind on track. In these circumstances the person becomes known to all the people around, all for good reasons. Everyone salutes the new born hero. It is rightly said that,"Don’t look down upon the people, on your way up!!Because you may have to look up to the same people, on your way down”.
So a person in the positions has to maintain his humility, leave the ego & be good to all & one around. The times however may not last forever. It goes well to say that nobody likes to see the sun setting (Dawn), even though it too has its serenity & charm. Nobody ever comes to see how much a student toils for 364 days of the year. However, what everybody comes to see is how much that student scored on the 365th day. If he has scored well, everyone praises his fruitful results, & if it is the other way round, it creates nothing more than a furor with a bad taste. It goes on to say that everyone salutes the Rising Star. They flourish from their stage of infancy to full blown out growth eventually to fade out one day in this vast universe of rising & falling star.

There was a Time .. .. ..

There was a Time when we all were Together
Sharing our Thoughts & Lives, that we will do forever n ever
Surrounded by Happiness & Love of the Dears
Life went on, like that for those wonderful Years.

Priorities & needs, everything was fixed
Nothing could make out Love & Feelings Jinxed
We were different beings, but connected to a Single Soul
We were all the same, but we had different Goals.

We were happy in our own small way
Managing with whatever was there whether Bread or Hay
Not thinking of the riches other people had
Cause these Riches, we thought we could never have.

Ma & Pa cared forever, sacrificing everything that they had
Irrespective of the conditions, whether Good or Bad
The time that they lost in their Lives
Can’t be bought back, even for the Zillions of Dimes.

Resources were scarce, & at time conditions tough
But they made it sound easy, with a brief sigh
Packed in the room, in our Double Beds
Ma would cuddle us as if we were her Cubs.

Dad stayed far, but not far from our Hearts
He was always there in out Thoughts
I sometimes wished he were a Bird, who could Fly by
To say to his Kids to say just a simple “Hi”.

He used to transit up & down in the cold & the heat
His presence just made us all feel great
He would be a guide & a teacher
Laying strong foundations for our Brighter Future.

He would rarely scold, & even if he did, it was for Good
He was the Support System of our Childhood
Ma as usual would always be concerned
We would make sure not to cause her any discern.

At times we were rough as all children are
Acting as Brats & waging Ferocious Wars
But with intervention of Mom, It was a peaceful Ground
With no more Battles & wars to mound.

To persuade Ma was a very simple task
All we needed to do, was going on a Hunger Strike
Ma regularly visited School & got the essential Feedback
To make us bridge on our Voids & Gaps.

We always kept in our Hearts, the sacrifices of our Parents
Going in our making
Our Parents in disguise were busy, shaping moulds for our Lives
So that we could be whatever we desired.

There was a time when we just dreamt
Dreamt to the extend where the Horizons were
In search of these Horizons we discovered many Rainbows
But during this venture we got many bruises on our Knees

The times that we lost can never be bought back
Those times were precious & seem like invaluable now
But maybe that’s how Life goes on
There was a time when we………………………………