What keeps
us alive? Is it the air? Is it just the air? People might get all Sigmund Freud
on me and say love , but is it really love that gets us through , well maybe
but it’s clearly not the only factor helping us sail through rough seas we call
life.
“Curiosity” it’s
clearly the need to know, the answers like what, when, why, who that takes us
through life. Think about it, whom will I marry? Where will I work? What will I
wear? We keep thinking curiously about what is about to happen and that keeps
us glued to life.
Life is one
big series of Disappointments, trust me from our favorite mug breaking on a low
day to missing out on finer things in life for no apparent reasons, life will
throw all this at us, but during this are times of joy, times when one gets
those seconds of pleasure, like the look of a person across the room to just
bumping into something that changes us forever.
We plan so
hard that even if it is giving us all, it takes away what should be number one
on the list and that’s the feeling you get when you think you are worth. Not the
feeling of winning but the feeling that one has when the inner self is so happy
by the deeds one has done that nothing in the world can take it away on that
moment.
Just learn
to stay alive while we are breathing, I wasn’t this , I too was “My life should be this type” kind of a guy , I
too used to follow a routine that would have helped me get where I wanted not
knowing I am actually not happy , what’s the point in having it all by losing
it all? But well nature has its ways to reach out and bring about change in us.
I was home
working late one night , it had been 8 months since I had written a single
piece and still I was busy with things I didn’t enjoy and suddenly I got a call
from my grandpa , an honest chap with nothing to brag about , he was sad a
little and wanted to talk , he began with random talks about how he misses my
grandma who passed away last year and how his life has been one big roller
coaster , how he missed out on a job at age of 27 as he chose not to go away
from his family, how he was sad that night as one of his colleague from his
olden days had just gifted his grandson a brand new car and that he couldn't give
me nothing but the fact that he was happy as he never missed any of my
birthdays as he was always with me, how he never missed a single day seeing us
grow and turn into what we are today and he asked me this. “Was my life worth it?”
and I shed into tears, it was then that I realized that his life was far better
than I could ever ask for.
People take
life too seriously that they forget the purpose of it, life is not a test, it’s
just a journey , we don’t need to make all the right decisions , make mistakes
, learn from them , make new mistakes everyday , see where they take you, if
you feel it’s the wrong way take a turn, never wait for a thing to happen , go
forward and do it, life is too short for us to make excuses, excuses are like
these life jackets that we put on in order to salvage our mistakes and stay
afloat in the open ocean of life.
Take a decision
and live by it, have no remorse cause to be honest
“Life is one
big series of disappointments and in the end he who managed to get little
moments of joy intact will prevail and rest all will be ridden to dust before
they realize it”.
