The Different Panes

The water on the windscreen considerably decreased the visibility of the road in front and increased the time to reach my destination. I tried to look through window panes I was surrounded with, attempting to appreciate the green view outside the glass – a rare phenomenon in the desert.

While I looked at the pane in front of me to get a glimpse of the view, I noticed that the water trickled down slowly from the side pane, and sometimes when the speed of the vehicle increased, the rain drops deviated from their defined path taking circuitous routes to reach the end of the glass pane.

To get a clear view of the outside, I tried my luck with the window pane in front. My attention got stuck on the separation itself, shifting my focus to the different behaviour shown by the raindrops on the adjacent screens. The drops falling on the windscreen seemed to defy the law of gravity and trailed upwards at different angles as if they were alive. Each time the wiper moved to clear the screen of the water trails, the speed of the movement suddenly increased as if retaliating against the force and at the same time redirecting the negative energy to move upwards. The wind was hitting the screen so hard that it pushed the water streams further up.

The raindrops in this case seemed similar to different situations in our lives. The drops that fell on the glass had exactly the same composition till the tiniest level; still they behaved differently when they fell on different screens. The rain drops being the different situations in our life, we, the drivers of our lives have the power to direct them to fall on the optimistic screen. When we subject the situations to the positive screen, even the hurdles imposed by the wiper and the wind motivate us to move up in life.

While, many rain drops still fell on the side panes, it was the glass in the front that gave me a beautiful view of the outside.