Every year as autumn approaches, the leaves slowly start turning color. Come autumn and the leaves present a vivid and bright picture with fiery red, dull yellow, golden and brown hues. When it’s nearly winter the leaves fall down and cover the ground beneath forming a beautiful carpet.
But as spring comes, these leaves are swept away and the trees show cute little leaves taking the old ones’ place. These leaves are green and fresh and new. Then again the cycle repeats over and over again.
Every time, at every stage, in every season, these leaves form a pretty picture for our eyes. Sometimes we stop to appreciate their beauty but at other times we are just too busy to care. We are so caught up in our everyday lives that we do not notice this event. We never stop to stare and ponder over its significance.
When I see these leaves and think about them, I am hit with two very significant truths of life. One of them is something I already said. Our hectic and fast paced lives don’t give us any time to notice the beauty of things, whether they be as small as a crystal clear dew drop on a leaf or the majesty of the waves crashing against the shore. Beauty is the rainbow that spans the sky after a shower. Beauty is the picture that every rising and setting sun presents. Beauty is the gentle breathing of a sleeping baby. Beauty, if we look around, is everywhere. All we need is to take out time and admire it. As they say “A thing of beauty is a joy forever.” But we are too caught up in the race to be the best, we are afraid to stop and notice because someone will whip past us in the blink of an eye that we miss the beauty of the world that God’s created. We miss those little things in life that, even though are very insignificant, give it great meaning. We forget that it’s the little things in life that give it its real meaning.
Looking at it again, we realize another truth of life. People come into our lives; some leave quickly, some stay a while and others share our lifelong journey. But every one of them touches our lives and we’re never ever the same. People always come into our lives for a reason. It’s not necessary that we understand the significance of their presence in our lives immediately but sooner or later we do. Every person in our life teaches us something; through words, actions or our experiences with them.
People are just like leaves. They come into our lives, stay a while, change it and gradually fade away. Always new people take their place in our lives. And the cycle repeats itself over and over again. People come and go, times change and along with all this, so do us. Just like old leaves are swept away sometimes old friends are too. Sometimes we look back at them, at other times we don’t. That’s just life…
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