Sunshine. . *.*

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Say the word Sunshine and your mind frames a silhouette of .. rays of the bright sun untampered by clouds, Of the eternal sunlight showering its graciousness and benevolence over the Earth.. and of something that radiates warmth, cheer and happiness. On the contrary, the night forms a portrayal of everything dark, gloomy and dusky. Antonymns as they are, the irony is.. that it is the night which precedes sunshine.. and probably, it becomes difficult to appreciate the essence and complaisance of the sunshine without having experienced darkness .This therefore justifies the well known maxim that “ There can be no sunshine without sorrow” ..The brutality of life affects all of us and none is immune from it’s turbulent flow. We must not grumble that roses have thorns, but rather be grateful that thorns bear flowers. Turning saturnine only gets you in more problems because the demons inside, rob you of your ability to look at the bright side of things, so you sit back wailing and weeping over the upheavals of life. This world, according to a well known maxim is a looking glass. If you smile, it smiles. You frown and it frowns back. If you look at it through a red glass, all seems red and rosy, if through a blue- all blue and if through a smoked one, all dull and dingy. There’ll be days when death may seem like the only option .. . and there’ll be days when all you do is smile and your laugh will be so rhythmic and the thought of living will excite you. Life goes easier when you start looking at the bright side of things. But you need something to look to , when you wish to look there .. at the illuminated sides of life. God has showered his mercy over us humans by not only providing us with this beautiful nature- the rain, the earth and the sun but also makes paths cross for people so they know what true sunshine is all about. There are some persons whose smile, the sound of whose voice, who’s very presence seems like a ray of sunshine. . and brightens the whole room. They’ll look at you in such a way that you know there’s nothing but light when they see you..and It’s the way the edges of their smile are replicas of the creases they leave in their bed sheets every morning .. It’s the way they leave impressions of their presence being there right beside you always. It’s the way they look at you when they don’t wanna leave but have to, when they pull back the curtains and you don’t even flinch when the sunlight pours into the room cause it was already there the minute they stepped through into your life.. That is what I call sunshine because nothing in life is more beautiful than having that kind of a   S u n s h i n e. . (':