What is life? A question or an answer to a question? To those who believe in reincarnation, perhaps the latter, for one would come back to experience life only if one has found something wanting in one’s previous life/lives. And in truth, what indeed is life all about?
Is it the sweet feeling of togetherness and bonding with one’s loved ones, the warmth of love and affection, feeling secure in the arms of the one you care for the most and in turn holding him/her in your arms, or is it something else? Is life about grief, about the salty tears that splash down when it hurts, the sudden choked voice when one wants to cry out and no voice comes out? Is it about deception, about not being what the world sees you to do, about wearing different masks for different people, and never knowing who one really is? Or is it about just living life, one moment at a time, one breath, one heartbeat at a time?
For me, and I truly believe in this, life is a medley of all this and much more. To be happy without ever having experienced grief is to never truly realize the value of that joy, of that bliss. On the other hand, to have always been in the downs, to never have felt the warmth of affection, would make one so very pessimistic and so very dead. Can one truly appreciate the value of trust and belief when one has never been betrayed? So to enjoy a positive, one must suffer a negative, if just for a brief moment.
Sometimes, life must be lived alone, without anyone beside you. You could be surrounded by countless people, and yet be alone in your solitude. You don’t need books, or music, or someone special to lose yourself.
Just think of yourself as a raindrop, released from the dark, grey clouds. This drop is destined to reach the ground and then be consumed by the parched earth, and yet it never thinks, or rather it cannot think of ever stopping its descent, of ever turning back towards whence it came. It is surrounded by its brethren, so many like itself, and yet it falls alone. It can only see itself in them, a pale 
reflection of its soul in their eyes. There is a spot on the earth given to it to fall upon, a soul to enliven, and a heart to bring joy to.
Be like that raindrop; do what you must, bring joy to all whom you can, and leave the rest to the Fates. They will not betray your trust in them.
6 comments:
hey..a nice philosophical post..i liked the analogy of the raindrop and our lives. Happiness, sorrow, success, failure are part of life. Without experiencing them, life would be incomplete. It is how we triumph over failures and spread our happiness and success all around us is what makes us true men.
Brilliant post!!!As mahesh and aarti said,I really like your analogies :-)
Yes,when one is always in a "happy state",how would you appreciate it?But when you are happy after a span of hurt/sadness,you truly begin to realize the value of that moment and teasure it...No pains,no gains;in order to be truly happy,you must embrace the drops of tears coz they are the ones who really enable you to enjoy your happy moments:-)
May you have a great life!!!
- Maya
Such a nice 'matter-of-factly' piece!
'...wearing different masks for different people, and never knowing who one really is'... that's so true.
Life is about knowing people. Everyone has something to teach us. We should be able choose which qualities of people we ought to learn to make our life worthy. And that's why we need to be different with different people, to understand their take on life. But definitely our feet should be rooted to our ground, we should not forget where we stand and where we belong! We should not try to ape people just for the sake of it, just because we feel they are more liked by everybody!
It is one's individuality that will be remembered...
"I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me."
-Abraham Lincoln
Mahesh, Maya, Aarti: Thanks for your kind comments. Am glad that people agree with what I have to say about life.
Life is eternal....
and death does not end all.....
Really a beautiful article.A good description about life esp the analogy that you have drawn with the respect to the raindrops.
What you say is true that only after having the negative esxperiences does a person really value the positive light into his life,but what about those who experience so much negativity and failures throughout life that when they finally do experience joy and happiness the most valuable time of their life must have passed away,and now these joys don't matter much!
Life is not as easy as it appears to be!It is just what has been in our destiny we will face it and then some part of it is also in our own hands the way we sow so shall we reap!
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