What the Moon Teaches Me Every Fortnight

The moon, which is the very reason for many of the planetary happenings on earth, is more than just a satellite.

Every time I used to stare at the moon, I used to find a face on it. On my sad days, the face too seemed sad and on all the other days it seemed just like a normal face.

I have wondered why different people see different images on the moon and the some who see nothing at all called us Lunatics; and I don't deny that I am one. Because lunatic comes from Lunar, which is the moon :)

My friend and I always found full moons fascinating. We noted how every full moon night made us do something crazy; both good and bad.

But only very recently have I learnt how the moon reminds us of a fundamental truth of life, that EVERYTHING IS CHANGING, YET IS JUST THE SAME.

On the surface, moon is continuously evolving for the first 15 days since the new moon and continuously depleting itself back for the next 15 days till the next new moon. Yet, the real shape of the moon, the real effect of the Moon, it's inner self, it's reality, it's highest truth, REMAINS JUST THE SAME.

That's how our human life too is. On the surface, our lives are continuously evolving and depleting and Changing for the better and changing for the worst. What we often keep seeing is that surface alone. We see our lives as the moon that keeps changing but not as the one that stays the same.

But little do we notice that our inner self is what we are. That's what will never change. It'll never deplete. It'll be the same throughout. Our body will cease like the moon ceases after every fortnight but it'll be born again, and we'll start afresh and shine bright on the earth all over again, till it again start to cease.

But we won't cease for We're the real moon, the one that stays the same throughout time. It's been staying the same for a million years now. Yet, every fortnight it's a new journey.

That's how I think we should take our lives. Nothing is too big a deal. Any day is a good day to start afresh because Change happens only around us and it hardly happens to the real us. Change is on the surface alone. Deep within, we are all the same whole moon that's been bringing tides to the oceans for hundreds of centuries together.

That's what the moon makes me learn.

That I am more than what I perceive myself to be. We all are the same moon.

Do you get what I mean?