A Beautiful Journey Poem by Arun Maji

This world is what it is.

But what you see in this world
Is only your interpretation of world.
And believe me
‘The world' and ‘your world' are never same.

Your belief, core values, culture, education,
Training, life experiences-
They all together form a coloured lens
And hold it before your perceiving eyes.

If your lens is gold, you see a golden world.
If your lens is muddy, you see a muddy world.

Joyful life comes from
Your ability to see most beauty
Even in apparently ugliest of things.
You will see beauty in world
Only when you wear ‘beautiful' lens
Before your perceiving eyes.

And how to build beautiful rainbow lens
Before your perceiving eyes?
Soak forgiveness in sweet solution of love and kindness;
And dry it in sunshine of smile.

Love anyway.
Be kind to even unkind.
Forgive no matter how difficult.
Smile no matter what.

© Arun Maji
Painting: Eduard Friedrich Leybold