Thirst, Joy and Love.

Why are you gulping down so much water? The mother asked, concerned looking at her young kid. 

Because I won't be getting water for the next 18 hours! How would I survive. The kid responded back while hurriedly taking glass after glass. 

So you're afraid of dehydration? The mother continued. 

Don't know about dehydration, but yes, I am scared that I'd get thirsty which I know I will. The kid was now on his 4th glass. 

So you think you're not going to feel thirsty for the next 18 hours because you're drinking 10 glasses right now? She smiled. 

Yes, well, of course. Isn't it so. I don't know the science. I just want to sustain this feeling for the next 18 hours. I didn't know what thirst was, until, well I kept my first fast and went outside to play in the heat. That thirst made me realize the worth of quenching the thirst. The son was confused. 

She smiled and began. 

"When we all are born, we all are surrounded with Love and Joy. We all grow up experiencing Love and Joy in one way or the other. That tender hug, that mom's attention, that daddy's gift, that teacher's smile, that aunty's food. Each offers a taste of Love, of Joy. We all are well fed on it. However, subtly, somewhere, silently within us, there are boundaries growing. Each bad food, each bad taste, each interaction lacking Joy and Love construct boundaries of ego around us. Brick after brick. So much so, that we lose track of the Joy and Love and become accustomed to living within our ego boundaries. We now view each act of Love, each act of unconditional Love with suspicion. We inspect it. investigate it. Even shun it away thinking that it must have some strings attached to it. 

We become thirsty. We become thirsty of Love of Pure Joy, of Pure Exhilaration that we had once experienced. One touch, one hug, one smile, one act of Unconditional giving, one glance of somebody we really like; we began craving these moments. We become clingy, looking for these moments in our daily lives. Fishing for them. And when we do experience them. Our reasons suspend. Our rationality and thinking halts. We experience Pure Joy. Pure Love. Be it in the moment of talking to a kid on the street or listening to the knowledge of a wise. You want to gulp down those moments like a kid preparing for his fast. You want to sustain the feeling of Satisfaction, of Connection. You just don't want to feel Thirsty. 

The problem is, gulping moments like glasses of water can never ensure that we will not be thirsty in the coming hours. Trying hard to make moments eternal can never make them eternal. Denying and then rejecting those moments as nothing but unreal and temporary joy/love doesn't help either. For those moments are as Real as Him. The closest you can get to experiencing His Love, His Joy is through experiencing these Moments right here right now, through His people. 

Thirst is a naturally occurring phenomena. It has nothing to do with how many glasses of water you gulp down in the morning. it has to do with your internal system. 

If you gulp down moments while you are internally disconnected with the Real Love, your moments will remain temporary. You'll keep on gulping down water sehri after sehri in the hopes of not feeling thirsty till the evening. You'll remain at internal conflict. 

If you experience moments with the Belief that its the Glimpse of Him

If you experience moments with the Faith that its sent by Him

If you give in those moments with the emotion that its for Him

With your thinking suspended, your rationality aside, You Live to Experience Him. His Joy. 

If you Realize that those moments, those people, those joys, those loves are nothing but sent by Him then You'd continue experiencing them. You'd never be thirsty. You'd be at peace. You'd be connected to the Lover of Lovers."

After that, the mother got up and started clearing the table. The kid seemed lost. He said, "Wow, mom, sometimes, I am amazed at the way you teach me wisdom.".

She turned back and responded, "I am just a mom. Now imagine, He who is countless times closer to you than me, Imagine the ways and moments through which He teaches you wisdom  and talks to you."

And then, you understand. Your start of internal peace is when you Realize, that He sends down Love & Joy for you through His people. Every single day. Every single time. Become His agent o spread the moments together, forever, everywhere.