Who is your parrot?
April 05, 2012A magician in his disillusioned youth, enchanted by life and life’s ways of embedding love for it, conferred his life with accomplished ease in a beautiful and a wise parrot. As long as parrot lives, magician would continue to enjoy life without fear and when it’s the time, he would bestow his life on to another beautiful bird, was the astute reason that magician had for a never-ending youth.
But life has its own plans, and his had its own plans too.
The lush green parrot with young feathers gathered enough courage to fly high
and escape to the wilderness. The magician’s life was now vulnerable which worried
him so much that he stopped living life he knew.
With his magical powers, his days passed chasing the bird in
wilderness. But magician could never fly as high as parrot could and so the
bird always escaped.
With every passing day, he feared more for his life and his
strength diminished because of inner restlessness. All he ever wanted was to
catch the parrot and claim the life he had. But it was a distant dream for
parrot was not soon to be trapped.
A year passed and parrot grew smarter in the ways those avoid traps and
magician grew older by many years in a year chasing the parrot, setting the
traps. It’s an excruciating feeling when one’s life is not in one’s own hand. He
decided to catch the parrot by all means possible with dogged determination and
started using deadly traps with bestial ferocity
After months, on one gloomy evening he succeeded to trap the bird but not alive. The trap was more harmful than a delicate life could survive. And when magician finally realized, it was too late to do anything but say his last prayers in a silent sadness. Not only he had lost his own life but also that of a free innocent bird with his lifeless imbecility.
You run a chance of running after life all through life until
finally it ends when you make someone your life who may not be even be within
your reach. Life is a mysterious mystery, solve it very carefully not youthfully!