It was another bright day when I pulled myself out of bed and pushed to office. It takes me almost an hour to reach office which is just 10KM from my home. With all nice words to the management and traffic I reached office where I had to be a part of status meeting.

Status meeting was a a daily routine job and unwillingly I was holding one revolving chair when one team member was mumbling something about what he did last day. There was nothing interesting for me and I was just trying to keep myself out of this boredom and was looking around. Suddenly my eyes got hooked at a simple line written on someone desk's scratch pad. It was written on a place where no one used to sit. The first line caught my eyes and I got excited about the second line thinking that it would be something really interesting which will kill my boredom at least for a moment.

The first line read .. The rose is a rose. In no time I read the second line as well which said.. A lotus is a Lotus. My mind got fully disappointed. I tried to read it again together as my mind was not ready to accept that there is nothing funny in these lines. I read the lines together again.





I felt really annoyed. Then I felt like laughing. What a funny line. Everyone knows that rose will be a rose and lotus will be a lotus. I tried to draw my colleague attention toward the line. By showing those lines I uttered to him "See some crazy person have written this meaningless line. Rose is a rose, lotus is a lotus.. huh".
He was silent and serious. Nothing surprising or annoying I found in his reaction. I felt little bit uncomfortable. He said in a calm voice.. "I wrote those lines".
I was like WHATTT??? but then I tried to be calm and with unsuccessful effort of hiding my annoyance I asked "Well what is the meaning of these lines??"
He replied. These lines may look simple but to understand the very meaning of these lines and absorbing it in your daily life may lead to solve most of your problems as well may give you a completely new look to the world.
Our most problem is because we are not ready to accept what is happening in our life, how are the people around us and how the things are really happening. If a rose is red in color and have thorns with beautiful petals, that is rose. If we like or not, if we can appreciate its existence in this form or not, it will not change in any way. Let rose be a rose and accept and admire its beauty in its very form. Then only we will know the importance and value of rose. Then only we can see how attractive this rose is. If we always wished to see rose as a lotus we can never appreciate the existence as such. Same way the things around us is the same as we see it and the key to happiness is when we try to admire it in the same way of its existence.

I had nothing to say but just to appreciate this thought silently.