It was another dawn, like any other. The mind led - the heart and I followed. Everything was hunky dory…an going accordingly what been thought an dreamed towards us….but there was something missing. The adventure, the excitement, the feeling of let go…the heart yearned for it all, and so did I. But the mind wouldn’t listen. “Far too dangerous, ma friend. I am the sensible one. So let me lead”.
I was a silent observer…
“But, when do I get a chance to lead? You have led all these years…for once, give me a chance”, pleaded the heart. It was a beautiful day of a beautiful spring. The mind was a bit weary too, of having burdened & the responsibility of life taking towards the FAST WORLD… of leading all the while. The prospect of sitting back and relaxing was far too alluring to ignore. The mind relented, “Go ahead, heart…lead us”.
The heart was delighted! It was exhilarating to be liberated…to be granted the power…to lead! We soared high up in the skies…the heart, the mind and I. The heart plunged into the depths of the ocean, and we followed. We flew over the mountains, ran across meadows, swam through the rivers and danced under the moonlit skies! When it was time for us to go, the mind intervened and said, “Let me take over now, you have had enough fun for those day”. But the heart and I were too drunk in the never-seen-before ecstasy of being liberated to listen to anything sensible. We sang, we danced, we drank in the beauty of life and we ran…ran…and ran…away from anything remotely worldly…till we found ourselves at the edge of a cliff in no-man’s land…The heart still ran, blind to the darkness around and deaf to my cries of warning. I stopped…but the heart still ran, fell off the cliff and broke ma self. And I watched…watched my heart go to pieces. The mind walked up to me and said, “I told you so”, and I nodded. I picked up my broken heart, tended it and nursed it. It’s learnt its lesson now, and I am sure it will be sometime before it would ask to lead again.
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