Nehemiah Rong
Many people start their day by reading Scriptures and Prayers called ‘Quite Time’. Beginning their day with devotion and meditation gives them strength of the day. That’s how they can survive through happiness, sorrows, problems and pains, and face life’s circumstances squarely with sense of divine strength. Such moment morning time worship is the best time for many souls to seek the divine love, direction, conversation et al. Some folks begin their day by reading newspapers while sipping morning tea. As coffee rush down to stomach through gullet also the written words go inside the mind through the eyes. Go around in your locality or in the town it wouldn’t be so surprising to see old and young peep through and engrossed themselves reading newspapers in wee hour of early morning. May be you are reading this piece as you rise up to begin another day, today.
Well some may just jump out from bed and start their day, go for badminton game, walking straight to the tea stall next door, or complaining the noise of the children, etc. The loud blasting noise of the Rock and Roll next to your room may wake you up to a state of ‘where am I’ situation. In some culture people start their day by taking early bath. Like in metro cities people sleep late and wake up late. Some spend most of their lives in Journey, may be in train or plane. With all these varying way of life and culture one thing is so common and that is people’s mood.
Going by the Oxford dictionary, ‘Mood’, means a temporary state of a mind, a fit of bad temper or depression. It depends on situation, condition, environment, time, physical, spiritual relational and emotional states etc. Mood changes. A few moments spent in the early morning can define one’s mood of the day. It is very sensitive. It is somewhat like that ‘touch-me-not’ plant. It is quick to open and close as well. It pushes us forward and pulls backward. However, it needs to be dealt with in a balance manner with proper understanding.
Cloudy and chilly morning may turn you moody. Sunny and bright morning may give you a good mood. With one’s taste mood also changes. The curry you hate can turn off your mood just before a meal. The delicious ‘chutney’, fish curry, pork curry, bamboo shoot can change your mood.
The naughty and rascal students may put off your mood well while you give an important lecture. Also an intellectual and brilliant question from a student can suddenly change the gear and brighten up your face. A thoughtless remark from your colleague can trouble you daylong. However a kind courtesy and respect you receive from anybody can impress you daylong.
The traffic jam before you reach your work place may puncture your mood for the day until you refill it back with some lively talks and some creative work. The busy officer may fuse your mood when he does not find time to give satisfactory answer for your query. Frequent frisking by the security people irritate and waste time just like that. However the traffic police stop the vehicle so as to avoid the accident. The officer may be busy for time bond official work, security personnel frisked to give you social security at large. Taking the both ends of every purpose can stabilize one’s mood mercury.
You have your way to begin your day. Some find it wise to read some thought provoking books in the early morning. Well some fine it is very soul lifting listening some hymns/songs. Some devote their time shaping their physical state more than the emotional, intellectual, spiritual states. Whereas some devote more time building their emotional more than intellectual and spiritual et al. Still there are some who seeks to balance all of them to be not only cool with their physique and mind but also with their soul as well. I think the moment you invest in thing you do at the early moment of a day can contribute a lot to your day’s mood.
Nevertheless, it is not quite surprising to experience that changes and events are second quick. Both the bad and good ones as well give us a mood to express at that moment as we face the changes/events. May be the news of your /daughter son’s success in competitive examination can give you a good taste on hearing that news. Also on hearing begging complaints of your nagging wives/husbands can turn off your mood. The stereotypical repetition of complaint by your clients to you, also a fire from your boss can electrify you. The impostors begging your help can irritate you for a moment. These are few instances where you are put to bad mood. Also as said earlier the thoughtful compliment, words of concern, love and affection can ignite and brighten your mood. Like it or not life’s comprises of both the sunny times and rainy days.
Circumstances are inevitable, however how you face and tackle them demand of your experience, patience, understanding and endurance. Controlling over circumstances is nearly impossible. Mastering to face them is not altogether impossible again. Likewise mood is there. You can’t bury it. You can’t eliminate it. It will be there as long as life is there. However, the way you adjust and adapt, control and conceive the situation and moment, receive and response the complaints and compliments are the matter of concern. It may be an early morning for him reading this humble piece, for her a leisure noontime, for them a bedtime, an evening time for you, whatever way or time you may read, may I ask you, Madam/Sir, “How is your Mood Today?” How do you handle your mood?
