The meeting of the two glaciers is probably an impossibility till the time they decide to melt. They love their form more than the meeting. Meeting needs melting and melting makes glaciers disappear. Till the glaciers prefer to stay as glaciers, they can not meet even the rivers.
That is the saddest part of the human civilization. We become so engrossed in our bodies and associated pleasures, that we freeze like the glaciers. Water water is everywhere and not a drop to drink. We get so obsessed with ourselves that our entire life becomes just a race to increase the height and width of the glacier. Nature tries to connect to us by pouring the rain and we convert the rain-water too into the glacier and start claiming its ownership. The other glaciers too are just ways and means to help us grow.
Some of us are more like the clouds, so much lost in thoughts that our entire existence is like the clouds. There are clouds of different sizes, shapes, and colors. They too have different thoughts like different beliefs, faiths, ideas, opinions, and mindsets. They are so obsessed with these thoughts as if a cloud trying to preserve and promote its own identity finding it difficult to meet the clouds of other shapes and colours.
The clouds or glaciers can't meet because the simple reason that for them their own identity is more important than the meeting. Meeting requires listening and understanding each other and merging with each other like the meeting of the two rivers. That is how communication takes place. Two human beings like two rivers come from different sources and have their own experiences meet each other with different types of water and sediments being carried by them. Once they meet, they become one losing their individuality and both carry the combined qualities of both of them. That is what happens when we truly communicate with each other. We carry whatever experiences we have gathered during our lifetime as the lifeforce and the other person carries his own experiences and the life force both listen to each other and everything on the table and examine as if the content belongs to none and carry whatever is required to be carried together just like the confluence of the rivers.
I really do not know why people are so obsessed with their thoughts and body as if somebody is obsessed with one's own limitations. Why don't we wish to enjoy the fun of meeting? Getting richer with each meeting and merging. The only reason appears to be a fixation on the body and thoughts. As if water has forgotten its real nature and is fixated on the form of a glacier or a cloud reluctant to melt or come down to the earth in the form of a raindrop seeking the pleasure of growing bigger and bigger and being appreciated by others for such possessions. In the process developing huge insecurities and fears. Why don't we meet with the people the way Rama met Hanuman, Sugriva, and Vibhishana. However, we also need to remember that Rama too could not meet Ravana. A river can not meet the glacier or the clouds, howsoever keen it may be.
Life is what we make out of the same. We may remain full of ourselves, our thoughts and ambitions hardly leaving any space for others to enter. That is one way of living. Too constipated, stiff, and full of fears and insecurities. The other way is just flowing like a river gathering the life experiences and meeting and merging with different rivers so as to carry the combined experiences together. I really do not know why would somebody leave this way of living to the isolated life of a glacier or cloud. That may happen probably because somebody has never experienced meetings and mergers else it looks so stupid and hollow to live a life in isolation.
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