Do you know what it took for Jean-Francois Champollion to decipher Egyptian hieroglyph is a long period of brain taxing research and methodologies henceforth unraveling the script that was shrouded with obscurity and became best of the glorious attempts to unveil the mystery of one of the oldest civilizations in the world
Do you know what it took for Descartes and Kant to become the greatest philosophers of all time is years and years of their interactions with logic and ethics henceforth laying the foundations of modern philosophy and leaving behind long chain of thinkers signifying the power human mind had reached so much so that it remains influential till date
Do you know what it took for Ptolemy to derive geocentric views on structure of universe is large span on scale of time searching for the answers to his questions through his unforeseen and stunning observation of the nested sky and recording the movements of stars,sun and moon henceforth making him the greatest astronomer that time has ever recorded
Do you know what it took for Andreas Versalius to lay the foundation of modern biology is long phase of extensive and exhaustive series of anatomical experiments henceforth making him the Father of Modern Anatomy
Do you know what it took for Galileo to invent telescope is long length of time of an observation and hunch to defend Copernicus heliocentric view of universe knowing not what he accidently gave the world is eyes to see the distant and gifting mankind ''the beyondscopic'' vision
For Marcello Malpighi to be immortalized when his name was given to the main excretory system of an anthropod - Malpighian tubule?( perhaps only how most of us would remember or recall him ) is a blood and sweat of a time of his indepth study of insects henceforth giving us one of the greatest microscopist
For Buddha to attain enlightenment is a time that goes beyond count and measure indicative of the human quest for knowledge that epitomizes high standard of profusely comprehended realities of human existence henceforth giving the world one of the most peaceful resorts offering to the lost and the wanderer -a thought to stay . Greatest and wistful theosophy of all time
For Ghalib to write about love the way only he could have is a rhythm and flow and pulse and beat of the time of being in and out and through of love and pain henceforth giving words to most of us who run low on voicing our own emotion . May not add resonance to our vocal chords but certainly has helped give an expression to our thought. No wonder why we share Ghalib's couplets like our very own !!!
Too recent to forget its only from yesterday did I recollect another work that came to its form over a 100 of years of unending scientific enquiry - Do you know what it took for space sciences to discover gravitational waves what was already there is a decade of unblinking eyes of LIGO upon the universe?
Last but not the least, what took Rome to become what it became is a run and race of time of ruination's and back. Henceforth giving one of the most profound histories of startling empires and masterpieces in art,architecture and paintings ...
And these are but a few to mention ..
What I wanted to convey here is one simple truth that it takes a lifetime and in continuation some more for a thing to take its final form and the secret is there is no final form . we only evolve .
The greatest of things have happened over the time and not in a day .And they have happened not to die like humans but to stay like divine.
Magic works in a moment not reality and reality over a hundred years becomes a magic . In these dying moments where we loose in a breath a speech and a breath in speech let our spirit be alive for larger than life and longer than time.
Do no rush . walk down to the place where its destined to happen. Perseverance is a key to our untimely how's why's and when's - let yourself unravel it clue by clue ..
Find what your love is and tune in the waltz time. It will take all the time on earth to find that one thing but if you do, it would be the greatest summation of your life ever. Discover. Invent. Observe . Derive. Think . Write. Express.
But most of all , Love !!! Its a subject that created science,history,philosophy,arts,music,song,heavens and God .And all of this happened over the years and not in a day ..
