it was a quiet and pleasant evening, the cool summer breeze brushing past my face and the fragrance of the rains that were to come lingering somewhere inside it; when all of a sudden! OW! I felt a sharp sting in my eye and a surging pain coursing through my being! For a moment I lost all track of space and sense and reached for the ailing organ to rub the anguish out of it. But the more I seemed to struggle with it, the worse it seemed to get!
Out of natural instincts I rushed to my mother for help and remedy. She tried to bring me relief by blowing a whiff of air into my eye so as to dislodge the alien matter out of it. However, the maternal rescue proved to be futile as the incorrigible invader seemed to be nestled firmly in there. Noticing her struggling with my eye, many other onlookers came forward to offer help: some with water to splash others with a hot towel to dab.
Finally it took the hand of a father to bring a sense of calm to my eye. He violently splashed water into the sore eye and it felt like the worst was over."Is it gone?", he enquired. I nodded in affirmation although I did complain of a burning sensation that the whole exercise left me with. They all speculated it must have been an insect that must have been there and its body fluid that was causing it. Then as I walked back towards everyone, one gentleman said, "You should let it be as it is. The eye will flush it out on its own!"
I did not know what sense that made since he ordeal seemed to have finished by then. But it was only 2 hours later when a little dead Fly was 'flushed' of my eye that I realized what he meant. Often in life too I struggle with problems that are beyond my sight and think my struggle with them will get me out of them. But it is silently enduring through it while being calm and composed that would have seen me through those storms.
And, yes, the burning stops finally and I am at peace!
Out of natural instincts I rushed to my mother for help and remedy. She tried to bring me relief by blowing a whiff of air into my eye so as to dislodge the alien matter out of it. However, the maternal rescue proved to be futile as the incorrigible invader seemed to be nestled firmly in there. Noticing her struggling with my eye, many other onlookers came forward to offer help: some with water to splash others with a hot towel to dab.
Finally it took the hand of a father to bring a sense of calm to my eye. He violently splashed water into the sore eye and it felt like the worst was over."Is it gone?", he enquired. I nodded in affirmation although I did complain of a burning sensation that the whole exercise left me with. They all speculated it must have been an insect that must have been there and its body fluid that was causing it. Then as I walked back towards everyone, one gentleman said, "You should let it be as it is. The eye will flush it out on its own!"
I did not know what sense that made since he ordeal seemed to have finished by then. But it was only 2 hours later when a little dead Fly was 'flushed' of my eye that I realized what he meant. Often in life too I struggle with problems that are beyond my sight and think my struggle with them will get me out of them. But it is silently enduring through it while being calm and composed that would have seen me through those storms.
And, yes, the burning stops finally and I am at peace!
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