The Circle of Life
I
really have no idea how to start writing this blog! I nearly ate off my
head thinking of a perfect intoduction for this small piece of
literature, but sadly i couldnt come up with a novel idea. Its so
random a thought, so bizzare yet something to be noticed, to be given a
thought to. An abstract piece of my mind, that to start framing this
random realisation into words of expression may not be my cup of tea,
but its worth giving a try.
switch off the lights... let everything be calm. let the silence speak for you. wake your subconcious... and dwell into the sands of time. See where it takes you.!! break all thoughts... all your restrains from this material world. let your mind do all the hard work. A moment will come when you actually have left this mundane world and would be floating around in your mindscape... where is it taking you? to your dreams? to your chidhood? to one of the happiest moments of your life? Its innevitable. Imagine the flashback from your childhood days till today as time, time moving fast, very very fast, at the blink of an eye. Imagine a movie.... u were born, your mother's first kiss, your dad's protective hands around you, shielding you like u have been the precious gem in the world. your first day at school, your first friend at school with whom you thought would never part. your first crush, your school leaving day, how you cried that day, remember? how you would never see those famiiliar faces out in the sun again, how you would never bunk school again...how you would never see that girl with you have been in love with... how you wished that you would be little again, going round the corner holding your mother's hand, how you wished those golden days would come and embrace you once more. Suddenly you see the world around you changing. U have started to grow! you have started seeing the ugly faces of people around you. you have been thrust into a rat race, all of a sudden as the sun sets in the western horizon.
Now the same you has been changed, the situation has forced you not to be YOU anymore. not to take things as it comes, the manipulation of life, the manipulation of your thoughts, the hypocrisy in your beliefs, the double mind of the child in you has evolved with time...it has grown. It has taught you how to hide your emotions, your own thoughts, to hide the real you in this battle for survival. Sometimes i wonder how big hypocrites we all are. we may not betray somebody, but every moment, every action betrays the child within us, we betray what we had been. a reflection of a demon, are what we see in ourselves! This is a stage when we basically have our dream...everything in it..all its material aspects. we should be happy... but then why do we turn back, why do we look back to those sunshine days...why do we want to wear that childhood mask once again ? to don the inocense that is long lost?
i guess life is a one word example of an oxymoron, infact the strongest example, that is hardly noticed. mask after mask after mask! a new mask every day. a new dress every morning, a new deal every hour,a new face, a new role infront of the masses. A moment's thought and a new emotion you are acting out.. every day, every place, every face every heart have actors in it...how life is? how it indeed is our greatest teacher. people say cats have nine lives..? dont we too have a similar trait?
A life among your childhood, brooding over over some simple dreams, which you lived.
A life among your family, which has been one of the pillars of your success.
A life among the road less travelled, your darkest secrets, of which only you have the keys.
A life among your closest friends, and the old wine you shared with them.
A life among the lonely nights, when sleep wont come to your tired eyes.
A life among some of the stunning success of your life, and reminiscing of how you achieved the feat.
A life among the unfulfillled dreams which you know you can never achieve.
A life among the rat race in which you have been thrust into, someday in your past.
A life among your nostalgia and an occasional smile, a childhood sweetheart....
How varied life can be? How much are we still to learn from it? How far we have travelled in this movie called "me" how different can life's pleasures be? how beautiful and how feary? how enchanting and how frustating? All the happiness that life has to offer does come with a cost... U can really never expect everything from life.. This is the rule of the world. The undisputed rule. life gives as well as it takes. The hits and misses. Life teaches you from the scratches. You talk and talk gibberish with a lump in your thoat. you learn to fight back your tears, life teaches you the great art of pretension. you pretend what you are not. sometimes for your own happiness and sometmes for the happiness you can offer to others. Make a straight face and come up. and you start the drama-in-real-life. i am not talking about anything in particular. The world's a stage. your office, your family life, your social circle. We are the monkeys of doom. We pretend, we make faces, we murder our emotions, we do everything to achieve that abstract. however hard you try, but in the end... you have to fall to the hands of your second childhood. Yes , a time will come when you can once again be married to your simple dreams, your sunshine days....You will go past all your nine lives... and fall ...fall ....and fall ... where you wont have any repents, any pretention. This is how life teaches, the art of sacrifice. Its a full circle. Perhaps thats why we call it the "circle of life".....
switch off the lights... let everything be calm. let the silence speak for you. wake your subconcious... and dwell into the sands of time. See where it takes you.!! break all thoughts... all your restrains from this material world. let your mind do all the hard work. A moment will come when you actually have left this mundane world and would be floating around in your mindscape... where is it taking you? to your dreams? to your chidhood? to one of the happiest moments of your life? Its innevitable. Imagine the flashback from your childhood days till today as time, time moving fast, very very fast, at the blink of an eye. Imagine a movie.... u were born, your mother's first kiss, your dad's protective hands around you, shielding you like u have been the precious gem in the world. your first day at school, your first friend at school with whom you thought would never part. your first crush, your school leaving day, how you cried that day, remember? how you would never see those famiiliar faces out in the sun again, how you would never bunk school again...how you would never see that girl with you have been in love with... how you wished that you would be little again, going round the corner holding your mother's hand, how you wished those golden days would come and embrace you once more. Suddenly you see the world around you changing. U have started to grow! you have started seeing the ugly faces of people around you. you have been thrust into a rat race, all of a sudden as the sun sets in the western horizon.
Now the same you has been changed, the situation has forced you not to be YOU anymore. not to take things as it comes, the manipulation of life, the manipulation of your thoughts, the hypocrisy in your beliefs, the double mind of the child in you has evolved with time...it has grown. It has taught you how to hide your emotions, your own thoughts, to hide the real you in this battle for survival. Sometimes i wonder how big hypocrites we all are. we may not betray somebody, but every moment, every action betrays the child within us, we betray what we had been. a reflection of a demon, are what we see in ourselves! This is a stage when we basically have our dream...everything in it..all its material aspects. we should be happy... but then why do we turn back, why do we look back to those sunshine days...why do we want to wear that childhood mask once again ? to don the inocense that is long lost?
i guess life is a one word example of an oxymoron, infact the strongest example, that is hardly noticed. mask after mask after mask! a new mask every day. a new dress every morning, a new deal every hour,a new face, a new role infront of the masses. A moment's thought and a new emotion you are acting out.. every day, every place, every face every heart have actors in it...how life is? how it indeed is our greatest teacher. people say cats have nine lives..? dont we too have a similar trait?
A life among your childhood, brooding over over some simple dreams, which you lived.
A life among your family, which has been one of the pillars of your success.
A life among the road less travelled, your darkest secrets, of which only you have the keys.
A life among your closest friends, and the old wine you shared with them.
A life among the lonely nights, when sleep wont come to your tired eyes.
A life among some of the stunning success of your life, and reminiscing of how you achieved the feat.
A life among the unfulfillled dreams which you know you can never achieve.
A life among the rat race in which you have been thrust into, someday in your past.
A life among your nostalgia and an occasional smile, a childhood sweetheart....
How varied life can be? How much are we still to learn from it? How far we have travelled in this movie called "me" how different can life's pleasures be? how beautiful and how feary? how enchanting and how frustating? All the happiness that life has to offer does come with a cost... U can really never expect everything from life.. This is the rule of the world. The undisputed rule. life gives as well as it takes. The hits and misses. Life teaches you from the scratches. You talk and talk gibberish with a lump in your thoat. you learn to fight back your tears, life teaches you the great art of pretension. you pretend what you are not. sometimes for your own happiness and sometmes for the happiness you can offer to others. Make a straight face and come up. and you start the drama-in-real-life. i am not talking about anything in particular. The world's a stage. your office, your family life, your social circle. We are the monkeys of doom. We pretend, we make faces, we murder our emotions, we do everything to achieve that abstract. however hard you try, but in the end... you have to fall to the hands of your second childhood. Yes , a time will come when you can once again be married to your simple dreams, your sunshine days....You will go past all your nine lives... and fall ...fall ....and fall ... where you wont have any repents, any pretention. This is how life teaches, the art of sacrifice. Its a full circle. Perhaps thats why we call it the "circle of life".....
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