Everyone or most people have a bigger vision of the world in their mind. Right from childhood. Particularly children. As a kid, I too used to have a bigger vision of each and every thing I came across. Like the bamboo forest next to my grandparents' in our ancestral village. The forest was next to the river which passed by our house. Ours was the last house of the village and by the river. The forest seemed like a never-ending green, dark and damp wonderland with imaginary ghosts, fairies and witches as in the stories as I would hear from my grandmother. There was a weird sound of crackling bamboo whenever a breeze passed by. Or like the water-body in the backyard of our ancestral house where I used to row the boat - my boat - taking in all my young cousins. That moment I used to feel on top of the world sailing a boat, taking care of lives I am responsible for saving. The water-body felt like a sea. I could see water everywhere till my eyes could figure out around me.
As I grew older and came far away from the village, those visions became closer to my mind and imagination. I go back to my roots as often as I can. Whenever I cross that bamboo forest, I realize it's hardly any forest but a cluster of a few bamboo trees. But that bigger vision of a dark eerie bamboo forest is still very clear in my mind. I can see it even now in all its magnificence. Whenever I see the occasionally green and yellow rice field behind our house, I realize how it used to become a water-body as big as a sea during monsoon due to heavy flood in the village. My grandparents and uncles allowed us to go for a little ride on my tiny boat on that flooded rice field. But the vision of the sea where I rowed my boat is still clear in my mind. I strongly feel these bigger visions are what keep my soul alive and rooted to the originality called life. Every child has such bigger visions, the sight of a bigger world. We must keep them alive in our hearts. They always call you to nestle in a comfort we otherwise tend to lose in this narrower, much narrower world.
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