Shalom?

Shalom! 

That's the first word that came to my mind while writing this blog post. What's that? I'll have to find out and figure a way to fit it in! 

It has been ages since I cleaned the dust off this blog. I wonder how it'd smell if it were a diary or a book. May be it would smell of nostalgia. For now, I'm just thankful that it's not a book. Why? Going by my record, I wouldn't be able to find it after these many years... 

Let's look for Shalom on Google(Opening the browser, typing the word 'Shalom'. Enter. Eyes wide open!) 

Lo and Behold!! 

Shalom is a Hebrew word meaning peace, harmony, wholeness, completeness, prosperity, welfare and tranquility and can be used idiomatically to mean both hello and goodbye. Wikipedia

I couldn't imagine a word so small yet encompassing such a huge and wide range of positive emotions! 

I start to write my blog after ages and go with the first word that comes to my mind only to find that there could not be a better word to start writing! 

What does peace, harmony, wholeness, completeness, prosperity, welfare and tranquility mean? What is the essence of these words. Some words don't have meanings, they have feelings. Yet you can't feel them until you know what they mean! (You might want to read that again). Got it? You'd think so. To get the true essence of these words you'd have to have experienced them. 

And how in the world would you get that experience? That is life. It teaches through experiences. For most part of it, it takes you through a roller coaster ride of situations, emotions...feelings. And then it let's you decide which emotions, which feelings you'd want to take along and which ones you'd rather leave behind. Most of your actions are tuned based on these learnings. Avoid Pain, Crave Pleasure! 

Keep learning more, keep trying to adjust the sails, until you come closer to the perfect balance, until you get corrected towards the perfect direction.

What I have learned is, the best place to be is sans all avoidance, sans all cravings.

Nirvana! 

No I haven't experienced it yet, I've only known this to be truer than the other theorems. May be when I do, you'd find a better post! 

Hope my rust clad thoughts made some sense, in the first, the second or the third reading. 

For now, 

Shalom