Standing on the threshold of being a full - fledged Septuagenarian I felt like reflecting and reminiscing on what life has meant to me in all these past six decades.
The first thing that comes to my mind is Gratitude that my heart is replete with.
I have so many things to be grateful to The Almighty for ...
blessing me with noblest of parents , supportive relatives , a good educational background , meritorious academic accomplishments , a fulfilling and remunerative career , the best of friends ,....above all , the most caring , doting and loving husband , the best sons one can envisage , our beautiful multifaceted daughters-in-law who gifted us our lifelines ...our lovely talented granddaughters.
The list is not over yet ....I am so thankful to The Almighty for giving me good health , all the extensive travelling to almost all the continents , all the comforts and luxuries that I had never imagined , the gifts that He has endowed me with ....the ability to sing , the literary sensibility to enjoy good reads and to give expression to my thoughts and feelings,... to have given me the sensitivity to enjoy the wondrous beauty of His creations of flaura and fauna and the abundance of healthy seasonal staple edibles that is so plentiful that it satiates and sustains the approximately 7.6 billion humans on this planet ! And will continue to do so even when the world population , as per statistics will be 9.7 billion by 2050 and for eons to come !!
All this infuses a deep sense of contentment and fulfilment in me.
What amazes me is how He has blessed with the bounty , never making me feel any dearth or insufficiency in any way .
Some believe that every year is a bonus year as one enters the Seventieth decade of one's life ! However , that does not signify that one should have no desires and become a recluse waiting for the inevitability .. True one needs to slow down , be cautious about one's health and treasure as well as utilise well the wealth one possesses ...
Desires can be fulfilled even then if one is blessed with good health positive spirits and certainly the requisite wealth !!
For this I look up to the spirited attitude of the Westerners . At every stage and age they know how to make the most of life ...they are indeed blessed with that boundless energy and vibrance .
So with the firm belief that I am continuously being blessed by my revered parents , seniors and well-wishers and my unshakeable faith in The Almighty and His boundless, unaccountable abundance of plentifulness that He is so kind to shower at every step , every miniscule of a second , I hope and pray that with my progression to another decade with all my follies and foibles ...
May He bless me to be a benevolent and more compassionate person so that I try not hurt others' feelings through my words or actions and am able to live life to the fullest !
