*Everyone takes a break. Some take breaks from their job. Some take breaks from their education. Some take a break from their friends. Some take a break from internet. Some people retire from their career to take a break. Although some breaks are permanent, some are not. Among them are those who take breaks from writing and get back again.
P.S- I didn't write anything for almost two years and I'm going back again.
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Everything in life has a rhythm. Only if we care to notice it. Only if we care to listen to it. Life is like a dance, from morning to evening, from month to month and then from year to year we keep doing various things. But way too often we get carried away with things, we loose track and we forget what we were actually trying to do. In the middle of all that, sometimes we worry what other people think of us. We worry that our rhythm is not on a equal footing as theirs. We worry when people reject our rhythm. We no longer want to feel the natural pulse within ourselves. Instead, we give way to what others want us to become. Sometimes our plans and ideas, the way we want to live and grow, shrink and stall in relationship with the plans and ideas of others. The magic lies in how you handle it. The trick is finding your own rhythm and dancing to it no matter what others might tell you. It’s about being bold and being confident about what you want to do and what you want to become in life.
Rhythm is important. To become a good dancer, you need to develop good rhythm in your body. Rhythm is important for a dancer to make sure that he or she is taking the right steps at the right time. Rhythm is important for a singer. Rhythm keeps a song moving along, it gives motion. Rhythm helps to understand if a singer is singing the song in the right phase of whether he or she is going out of the way. Rhythm is important for a listener who listens to a drummer. It helps the listener to keep aware of where the beats are. The rhythm also helps a drummer know if he or she is playing the music right. A rhythmic gymnast must master the rhythm. It is to the rhythm in music they swing in circles, skip on the rope, jump through loops, bounce, throw or roll and what not. Rhythm plays a major role in their performance. They may score less if they break the rhythm during a performance. And so it is for a synchronized swimmer. A synchronized swimmer’s movements depend on the rhythm of the choreography. Having a sense of musicality and rhythm in the body helps an artistic swimmer always perform better. It doesn’t stop there. Even running needs rhythm. To be better at running it is important for a runner to take it slow on the first few days and gradually increase their phase. The faster you start the slower you will finish a race. The slower you start the more you can keep running. A runner, therefore must know when to be fast and when to slow down in a race.
Come to think of it. There is rhythm in your body too. Everytime you sway your hips, you sway it to a particular tempo. Your eyes blink to a rhythm. You wiggle your toes to a rhythm. You clap to a rhythm. Be it fast or slow. The most important rhythm we all take part in is breathing. You heart is a drum with a unique sound and it beats to sacred rhythms. When you climb a staircase, your heart beats fast. When you are at sleep it slows down. We take our breathing for granted, usually every minute without being aware of it. We don’t know whether it is fast or slow, whether we hold it or not, whether it is shallow or deep, but the breath keeps going. Most of us don’t pay attention to the breath – the in-breath, the out-breath and it’s rhythm, the connection. It is interesting how we just don’t pay attention to a simple thing happening inside our body.
Even a house can have a rhythm in the way the windows have been placed or in the way the lamps or bulbs have been fixed. There is a pattern or rhythm in the way the tiles are laid. There is repetition of pattern in the way the arcs are built in the nine archs bridge in Ella. The repeated arches in the Roman Colosseum is another example of rhythm in world architecture. Clothes can have a rhythm in the way that stripes or dots follow a pattern. Even day and night occurs to a rhythm. The earth is constantly rotating and everytime it faces the sun, that part of the earth will have daytime and the otherside that doesn’t receive sunlight will have night time. The pattern keeps changing depending on earth’s rotation. Even the phases of the moon changes and repeats over and over again in a rhythm.
There is rhythm in things we do everyday. It could be a daily practice or a ritual. For example; going to bed at the same time every night, meditating for ten minutes every morning soon as you wake up or it could be writing a journal before you go to bed everyday or the first thing you do when you get to office is browsing through your mails. Likewise we naturally set a flow to our life and sync with it.
Take a trip by train. Sit by the window. Close your eyes and carefully listen to the noise that the train makes. Trains make rhythmic sounds when their wheels pass over a rail joint. Everytime a train steps on the fish plates that are kept on equal distances, they make the ‘clickety-clackety’ sound. If you travel by train on a windy day, you’ll hear the whooshing sound of the wind at regular intervals in a certain speed. Think of trees. They sway to the way of wind in a certain rhythm. During heavy winds they shake fast and they sway slow to a gentle breeze. We don’t notice the rhythm from a distance. Only if we stand close to a tree we will know it. Think of throwing a stone across a river. The stone skips in a way that it will bounce on the water many times to a particular rhythm before sinking. Think of a dripping tap. The water would leak to a ticking sound in a certain tempo. And so do the water that drips from a gutter after rain. Think of a time you pump gas to your vehicle. The pump makes a consistent whinning noise in a pattern when disgorging the fuel. Several years back I found that the airport baggage belt makes a noice to a rhythm. As the belt on the carousel started to go in rounds, so did the beat. It had a series of clack- clacks keeping the 4/4 time.
Rhythm is everywhere. In the heartbeats of our chests. In the footsteps we keep. There’s rhythm when birds flap their wings. There is rhythm in the bump of cars over uneven roads. Everything around us has a meter. Everything in the universe has rhythm. Everything dances. The way they dance may be different. But that difference is what makes the world a fascinating one.
It is simple. Find your own rhythm and dance to it.
