The setting sun...always a beautiful sight. The setting sun...an inspiration to many a poet and writer. I love watching the sun set while sitting on a beach. As the blazing yellow sun, impossible to look at during the day, mellows down into the color ORANGE and slowly sinks down into the water...it always takes my breath away. The most beautiful sunset I have seen in my life has to be the one at Kanyakumari beach....that sunset is not just one to be seen...but one to be experienced...and felt.
Kanyakumari located at the tip of India is where the three seas...the Arabian sea, the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean...get united. It is a tourist destination...with thousands and thousands of people visiting it for its serene beauty and breathtaking sunrise and sunset.
I visited Kanyakumari many years ago but the memory of the sunset I saw there....unforgettable and divine. It was very crowded there that evening. There were many vendors trying to sell their stuff and lots of people around. But that moment when the sun starts to set...you get oblivious to everything around you...completely lost in that moment...hearing only the sound of the water flowing...not wanting to miss even a single second of that beautiful sight.
As the sun shines brightly, tourists from all over the world start to gather. And then the sun slowly starts to lower itself as everyone waits with bated breath. As the sun goes lower and lower, it paints the sky in so many different colors...red, yellow, orange....cannot describe in words how beautiful the sky looks at that time. And then slowly... surrounded by its many colored drape....the sun disappears into the water below. Postively one of the most serene experiences of my life.
Signing off marvelling at the fact that while the sun is setting in one part of the world, it is rising in another and this quote by Carl R. Roger
'One of the most satisfying experiences I know is fully to appreciate an individual in the same way I appreciate a sunset. When I look at a sunset...I don't find myself saying 'Soften the orange a little more on the right hand corner, and put a bit more purple along the base, and use a little more pink in the cloud color...' I don't try to control a sunset, I watch it with awe as it unfolds.'
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