My Rainbow Bridge: Journal 2
May 2024.
It is almost 22 months since I had the epiphany of ‘My Rainbow Bridge’ and wrote my first journal. I am still around halfway through the manuscript. Life has been as unpredictable as ever — I have written things I have not imagined and met people I hoped to meet and hold on to at least for a day. Today I remind myself that ‘My Rainbow Bridge’ is my largest writing commitment; the creative juices start to flow again. The remaining part would be a journey by itself, as I look back and forward.
There is something I should share. This is about the first part of the book. As I worked on each chapter, I had the opportunity to explore within and with some of those who have inspired these events. Dinner and walk in Dubai, sitting on the terrace for long conversations facing the Puzhal Lake near Chennai, searching for an old tape — oh, don’t get me started. The stories were biographical, but I had two points of view to tell.
There is an arc that I started to realize. I went back and wrote the one chapter that I had finished. One arc was about their lives, especially as they edged closer to their rainbow bridges, and another was my experience with them. These arcs give the reader two perspectives — how people can impact your life — little, but significant impacts that can shape our lives, like how little rocks placed nudge the water to take a different path or swirl and stay for a while, then move forward. As I jogged my memories about the visits, trysts, and interactions with the protagonist of the chapters, I slowly understood that people are special if you remember them enough.
In the last few months, I learned that a timely conversation could change lives. It was obvious enough, but it made me dig deep into my conversations with the protagonist and their offspring. The conversations lit a lamp in hidden corners of my memory, and then the lamp shone a light on the protagonist’s impact on my life.
The story grows slowly one chapter at a time. But each chapter is a story by itself; a story about a life that touched my life and a life that is now the past
The world out there, beyond the blue skies, is spinning into light-streaming pathways with interesting pit stops.
If one has read Journal-1, the wise people whom the protagonist meets talk about life and the afterlife, a journey that they see together through the prism of their enhanced wisdom after their spiritual journeys on Planet Earth and their Rainbow Bridge.
The passengers who are going to be on the journey would change. But the final list is for another entry. The idea is to explore how the wise of the world lived through these questions and learn more about life and the life beyond.
There is no specific update on this now, but if you are reading Journal 1 now, then it might be a good chance you get interested in this. So let us start this phase of the journey to Journal 3 together.
~Ashok Subramanian © 2024
