Friday, June 23, 2023

When the day is the longest

 June 21 is remarkable for yet another very special reason. Yes, it marks the summer solstice. Put in the simplest terms, on this unique day, the sun is the longest and the highest in the sky. As a result, on June 21, the day is the longest and the night is the shortest.

Well, yes, i can in school girl perfect terms explain this astronomical phenomenon, right to the point of the sun's declension. Is it needed, however, given the AI enabled world today? Not only do you have now the support of the Google Guru and the Yahoo Yar, but the ChatGPT also can write a better essay on the topic with great visuals in tandem! 

Well, such machine references cannot, however, beat us humans when it comes to exploring and explicating the symbolism underlying any event, personal to universal. Shall we try it? 

The summer solstice would be the highest day in the career of a person. On this day  ride the highest all the best activities in the personal and professional life of an individual. After such a zenith point, only possible is the process of descending, of the day getting smaller by the second, of the decline of an individual! 

That is what happens astronomically! A human being, however, can realise that it is time to move beyond this point of saturation. Either one can find newer goals with newer heights in the same field or one finds a new field to scale new heights. The day thus forever continues, never to set ever!

Pratima@ It is such symbolism, highly resilient, that makes life, not merely positive and optimistic, but unique and special as well.

 

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