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I can never describe the feeling and the ecstasy I felt as I flew over the cool icy blue waters of Maldives (well cant describe the color by words, nor I can compare it to something we’ve seen). What a scene!!

Like a small child, whose eyes glow up with wonder each time he sees the magic trick performed – I was held “gasp-less” as I was unveiled to the wonders of the Grand Designer. Every thing I put my eyes on, captured me. I saw splendid true colors that I had observed marketing companies so poorly trying to match. I saw ideas that we so beggarly try to copy. To a much-wearied traveler like me, in my lifetime of travels so far, nothing caught me in this frame – “Wonder with jaws hanging”.

From the air, I could look deep down in the heart of the ocean all the way up to its bed, decked with ornaments that can ever be compared to our ornaments, which were starting to look like a sore in the eye, so distasteful and repugnant on the on-board magazines. The colors of shoals of awesomely painted marine life, the beautiful contrast, which I now understood was scantily, copied by us mortals.

I’ve been to great and popular man made places and had seen all and the tall, the glitter of colors and light to the nostalgic Vegas nights where they said fun never seems to end. However, they could never hold me as what held me on this trip, unfolding as I flew on a sea plane to a lone island hotel far off from the mainland in to the heart of the ocean.

My long deep breaths just wished to hold it all up never to breathe it out. My eyes roved far and wide trying to capture it all in to my heart. I calmed the adrenalin raised hairs, closed my eyes in between and with the precision and concentration of a yogi tried to etch those sights in to my memory forever.

Few days on the island and then one morning, I had to return. Suddenly I felt everything had become so normal, and the waves, the air, the blue shades of water all were becoming to seem boring – nothing awe inspiring. What had happened to me ? I began to wonder.

On the way back to the airport as I again flew on the sea plane, there was no excitement. I occasionally dozed off… Oh my God !! I began to wonder, trying to stay awake … what has gone wrong? The sight of the oceans below no longer seemed to be captivating for me, I started to stare at the wings of the airplane for long and was ridiculously trying to spot the white band on the propeller blades. Nothing material could awe me again, it seemed.

The oceans, the colors, the marine life, the wind, the smell every thing seemed repugnant. I began to wonder, what does it then take to fill this heart – this ocean of mine. Ah ! Alas it then dawned upon me, I had tried to fill my heart, the ocean with something too small, too miniscule – the creation, the material !!

Instead of looking at Him I had focused too long and too deep in to the material and thought it could awe me for ever. Ultimately, it only takes GOD to fill your heart – your ocean. Every other thing no matter how much so ever stunning and awe-inspiring, were like small drops in an ocean and with time start getting boring. It could all hold my awe for just mere moments - Only God is big enough and has the capacity large enough to stun me, to awe me, to inspire me each time ….every time.

I bowed down then in awe, with a moist heart I thanked HIM, for unveiling Himself to me …Wow !! I sprung up, my face glittered, joy was back, I acknowledged it was ultimately HIM and not His creation (things that awe struck me) and only He alone had the capacity to do so for all of eternity !

Only GOD can fill the Ocean in our Hearts.

Tags: design, eyes, God, grand designer, heart, humans, maldives, ocean, travel, wonder

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