The Gabriels of this World

I have been reading Salman Rushdie's memoir, 'Joseph Anton'. In it, Rushdie has described his life before, after and during the 'The Satanic Verses' crisis when Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini had issued a Fatwa of his death for his "blasphemous" writing.
In the book, Salman uses a courtly urdu word, 'Farishta'. He was referring, of course, to Gabriel who handed down the message of God to the Prophet. I couldn't but think that we all have our own Gabriels. These Gabriels may not be winged in the real world but they surely give us wings.
Taylor Swift talks about this in her song 'Better Off' when she says, "We drive around town in a rusty old truck/Somehow it feels like we're flying".
And we don't have to have a PHD Degree to be able to recognize these Farishtas. Perhaps, bells would start to ring in your head or things would seem brighter and more colored. But you would know it when they are before you. Donald Trump talks about 'the power touch' that he feels some people have. The power touch that can change people for good. These Gabriels of our world have that touch. And without our knowing, we begin to change in a good way.

In his interview with Karan Johar, Aamir Khan talked about how he became more lively as a person after he met Kiran Rao on the sets of Lagan in 2001. They married a year later and since then Aamir has never been the same. Kiran is a Gabriel, for sure. Aamir was wise enough to recognize her as such. The question is if we are brave enough to do that.

One thing that we can certainly not do is to let go of these winged people. We have to value them. We have to take care of them. It is like ensuring that a part of you remains safe and sound. A part of us dies when we get separated from these Gabriels. They are like the Peter Pan's shadow. Peter has it and he doesn't at the same time but what he cannot do is to completely get rid of it.