wind...

...strong wind...bringing up hidden thoughts..making them fly around like fallen autumn leaves...only to make me realize how thin that self-made protected coating of favorable thoughts really was...breaking it...shaking me up...but in the process..removing the unwanted impurities..purifying the mind...instilling confidence arising from a greater sense of maturity, an understanding of the 'practical' aspect of life...the wind which does more than shake the branches and trees...it shakes the very roots of society and culture-imposed thought pattern in my mind created through the years....the roots are deep...but they will be uprooted eventually and replaced with a strong sapling...which on maturing will not be ever affected by the fiercest gale.