My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky.
So was it when my life began;
So is it now I am a man;
So be it when I grow old,
Or let me die!
The Child is father of the Man;
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.
Well, Wordsworth is not the only one who rejoices at the sight of a rainbow. I have been fascinated by rainbows since my childhood - I feel there is something magical about the way a seven-colored arc suddenly appears in the sky, and stays for a while before fading away slowly. When I happen to see one, I keep looking at it every few moments till the time it disappears.
Why the sudden interest in rainbows ? Well, I saw one yesteray, after a long long time - a number of years, I guess. It seemed to me that I do not get to see them as often as I did when I was a child. Have they ceased to form as frequently ? Or is it our eyes that fail to see them ? Perhaps the high rise buildings in the "developing" world restrict our view of the expanse of sky. Perhaps we are too busy to watch something as immaterial as a simple play of colors (or a simple phenomenon of refraction, for the more scientifically inclined). Perhaps we are too immersed in our quest for materialistic things to admire an object of beauty which is offerd freely by the nature to everyone.
Why the sudden interest in rainbows ? Well, I saw one yesteray, after a long long time - a number of years, I guess. It seemed to me that I do not get to see them as often as I did when I was a child. Have they ceased to form as frequently ? Or is it our eyes that fail to see them ? Perhaps the high rise buildings in the "developing" world restrict our view of the expanse of sky. Perhaps we are too busy to watch something as immaterial as a simple play of colors (or a simple phenomenon of refraction, for the more scientifically inclined). Perhaps we are too immersed in our quest for materialistic things to admire an object of beauty which is offerd freely by the nature to everyone.
This was the best I could do with my cellphone camera.
3 comments:
Beautiful. I am seeing a rainbow after ages - and this time though the lens of your camera! I too think pretty much the same way as you do and want to add that we also have begun to spend a lot of time indoors and it is quite possible that we miss the wonders of nature.
Thank you for bookmarking my blog, it is my pleasure to bookmark yours :-). I also wanted to ask if there is a direct way I can access your blog - I still do it through a proxy server.
nicely written! well thought!
Yes, there were two occassions recently when I saw rainbow in Gurgaon but once I did not had the camera (I almost always carry my camera in my purse) and once I failed to notice and nobody else pointed it out to me :( But finally I got it!
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