Chapter of Love - Monologue IV

Watching the stars.. Have you ever taken the time to do that..? I have.. I do as often as the night and clouds allow me.. There's something magic about them isn't it..? Something that makes us feel so small, unimportant and expendable.. Every single one of the stars out there have seen more than all of us humans together.. Therefore we wonder about them, they don't wonder about us.. I have to confess something, even though I am well aware, how strange it is going to sound... I'm not sure if it is perhaps my own little characteristic flaw of romanticising the unknown, but still, here it goes.. I'd like to think that the stars indeed are watching over us.. That they are.. shall we say, Guardians.. or perhaps.. Lightbringers... And I don't mean that in the sense that they illuminate our world.. But our mind... Our mind can gather much wisdom from the small fires in the endless darkness of the universe.. You see, I learned something.. I was enlightened... Even though I knew it before, it somehow became clearer, when explained by the stars... I sat there, outside, in the night, freezing... And there they were.. So beautiful... Now here's the thing.. What I wanted, was to make a wish.. And of course you're familiar with the traditional saying, right..? A shooting star is said to make your wishes come true.. Well as I sat there and time went by, there were moments when I almost gave up due to the cold.. But in my Heart I couldn't bear such a defeat.. So I decided not to.. I stayed instead.. Thus, I passed the test of determination.. But it wouldn't take long before I faced yet another test - Devotion... Because, from time to time, I felt a desire, a weakness, to look away, if only for a brief moment.. I nearly took my eyes away from the silver dust... But I didn't.. Because something Told me, that if I were to, then I'd be sure to miss my wish.. So I passed the test, hence earning a new quality in myself - Patience.. Then I was rewarded with yet another gift.. For at last.. the stars began to fall... I made my wish.. Whether it will come true or not, I can't Tell at this moment.. But that's not the point anyway.. The bottom-line is this.. When you have a goal, something strive after, then you must be sure to give it all your undivided attention.. Because if you stray from your wish, your desire, if just for a second.. then you might miss it entirely... and then there is a chance that it'll never come back... You see, standing still, deciding, feeling, and thinking, is a journey no less than any other quest.. And what is a journey..? Is it time spent, distance travelled..? No.. it is the events around and inside that shape us as we travel towards the end... And they will Tell many secrets hidden within the soul of any traveller.. I suppose that what I want to say is this... Determination, patience, and devotion, are all of them things, most needed when pursuing anything worthy of desire... If you lack or lose any of them along the way, then your quest might prove to be in vain.. But if you have carried them with you always, or if their presence arise with time and effort.. then you can feel proud.. That alone is a priceless gift, something of greater value than you could ever imagine.. Hopefully.. in the end... the triad of travelling will have served you well... "Sic itur ad astra.. - By effort, we reach the stars."