Sunrise.. It’s a New Day.



I woke up today morning and stood at my window, feeling not particularly cheerful. The Sun was just beginning to rise beyond a high rise building and I decided to capture the colours in my camera.

I kept looking at the colours. I noticed that gradually my mood started to improve. Sunrise is often used as a symbol of hope, new beginnings and motivation. So perhaps it was the mind’s conditioning that made me feel better. Or perhaps my muscles and cells slowly came out of their sleepy grogginess and started to feel alive. Or perhaps it was just the Vitamin D I had started absorbing from the light! Whatever it was… I felt good looking at the Sunrise.

I stood there motionless but the Sun kept moving. Millimetre by millimetre. Time kept advancing. Millisecond by millisecond. The Earth’s rhythm was being manifested right in front of my eyes. Within some minutes, the Sun was almost up. Time really does not wait for anyone!

The birds went about their chores; their biological clocks in sync with the nature. The morning walkers became visible. The number of vehicles on the nearby road started to increase. I remembered a few things that I had been postponing for last few days and decided to attend to them today itself. I closed my eyes, still facing the Sun, and the bright pink & orange hues of the sky filled my closed eyelids! The Sun was up now.

The whole of my previous day had passed and now I pondered whether my health had been better yesterday compared to the day before? Whether my abdominal surgical stitches had pained less yesterday? Whether I had done yesterday whatever I had meant to do? What was it that I intended to do today? I felt that sunrises are benchmarks of our life and another milestone of a new day was just beginning.