Reaching the Stars

     ‘I want to become a star,’ ‘she is a superstar’ and ‘I want to reach the stars are some common phrases I have heard people using in emblematic sense. These phrases are even used in poems and songs. This principally means that people want to become like stars in the sky.

     But the thing that made me wonder was that, WHY STARS??? Why stars when there are millions of them already present? Why stars when from earth they seem diminutive, very petite? Why stars when they emerge and wane in their simple attempt of twinkling? I don’t think that people who aim to reach the stars have ever reflected upon this thought but this rather insignificant question bothered me for considerably long time. The answer to my bizarre question came to me by itself rather than me putting a special effort to go to it.

    It was a dark night when I was leisurely sitting in my room and various minor and major thoughts crossed my mind but none of them were able to hold their place sternly there. Abruptly, I think primarily to scare me, there was a massive power cut that left my house and the entire area in devouring darkness. My hatred and fear for dark surroundings made me leave my room immediately and somehow I decided to find solace on my terrace.  

   It was a cloudless and moonless night but thousands of brilliantly sparkling and shining stars were studded in the night sky. All contributed their meager amounts of light to consume the menacing darkness. That was the place where my fear vanished into thin air and I relaxed my tensed, alert and scared muscles.

  It was then that the realization dawned upon me that STARS were actually the best companions. Even the moon ditches the sky for one night and doesn’t eradicate the chilly eeriness of the night but the stars are always there, twinkling blissfully. From then, even I aspire to become a STAR (obviously with a different purpose). Even I want to light up the life of those who are in the midst of uneasy darkness.

        “Stars my ultimate inspiration,
          they blend and participate in the happy and bright hours like many others,
      but also illuminate the darkest times, when almost all cease to bother”