Dear Gulshan,
How are you? Are you doing well with your starry friends? It’s been long since I penned down my thoughts for you. Probably everytime I did write to you, it was sort of small little pieces of relishment of the memories you left behind. This time, I’m writing to you with a different purpose. A purpose less thought of.
I always believe that “Gratitude, when necessary, must be expressed!” and especially, when a human who has given so much to the society, to the country and to the world to cherish and celebrate; leaves for his heavenly abode without being acknowledged the way he deserved for his contributions, it becomes vital for the mortals in the worldly dimension to atleast express gratitude to the departed, if not anything else.
It’s important to imbibe that ‘To earn respect, one must give respect’. And Gulshan you, you earned the highest regard of respect in society because you gave respect showered with love to every individual soul you met in your journey.
From a mere balloon seller on the street to the greatest thinkers, from helpless children yearning for education to the hopeful eyes of elderly in old age homes seeking a bit of love and compassion. You Loved All. You Respected All.
It’s rare. You know why? Because we do come across people who can sympathize, but to actually empathize; it’s a value hard to find, even harder to imbibe! And you, my dear Gulshan, you empathized very intricately with everyone. I shall be lying if I start counting what I learnt from you. You taught me infinity and gave me my forever in this birth. Above all, you taught me the value of being a human being and the cosmic perspective that we are all one. And, I shall forever be grateful to you for this!!
~ From the part of you shining in here,
Nitya Gupta