Be there in the Orbit, Love and Greatness Await You

 

There is an option for the best chance to survive, move and be happy. Choose your orbit and glide with perfect harmony. The objects that fall out of the orbit, presuming it to be a leap of freedom, go burning and crash-landing into smithereens. The destination is not into the depths of cosmos for you to get into hot pursuit like a burning meteorite. It’s always nearby, at some place in the same gentle periphery of your common journey.

No journey is common by the way. Extraordinary is just maintaining your hold on the ordinary. Love the gentle loops of your circular journey around the axis of your being: the axis of your small, small commitments and responsibilities. That is the mother planet for your individual self to revolve around in circles. It defines you. It keeps you in the orbit. It helps you in your happy journey. It stops you from escaping into the black guts of the cosmos like a rootless rock going burning and turning to ashes.

So choose your little orbit. Staying in the orbit does not mean being tied to a chain. It’s a grasp for lasting freedom. It is the life-force, this gravity that keeps you bound to your orbit. Your destination lies in the orbit itself. The day you get it, it becomes the loftiest orbit and the journey worth it.

Things as small as bunking office to be with kids, surrendering your right to the TV to allow kids to enjoy their cartoon show, letting the little one to play on your abdomen and suppress the discomfort to give a winsome smile and even laughter, laughing when the little one pees on you, going to office daily over the years to see that small world back home in the evening, saving money over the years to give the surprise gift of a car to your children, and many more. These are the forces that keep you in your orbit. They turn life into living. Unconditional love is the catalyst that propels this alchemical shift from life to living.

Love your orbit. Glide effortlessly. You will cover astronomical distances on the same familiar path. Love these common repetitions that go unnoticed and unrewarded. Loving these is the reward itself. Like your path. It’s strictly yours, stamped with the unique greatness of your unseen efforts to stay in the orbit. Just to stay in the orbit means to be great.

There are countless milestones that you reach. These are as shiny as the biggest stars. This universe started with a bang from a point. That was the explosion of potential for countless souls to carve out their orbits, to glide peacefully in their trajectory. Be there, smile, feel the goose-bumps of loving kindness, and give a victorious cry for you are already a winner.