The Ride of Life
Life has taken a full circle. Life has brought me back to square one. Although a circle and a square have different shapes, the journey has been one and the same. A diameter here and a diagonal there- I willingly avoided these two shortcuts because I wanted to experience life in complete routes. It’s not that I didn’t mind taking the shorter route but I preferred the longer one just to know what it is all about. Curiosity kills but curiosity teaches too. The run in the arteries and veins induced by curiosity is exciting and tiring on and off and the best part is the end is satisfying no matter what.
The company with whom we traverse the journey matters a lot. A happy, supportive, similar wavelength minded, understanding, caring and ideally someone who makes you be you at all times makes your journey all the more learn-worthy and fun. There’s no perfect partner. There can’t be any for anyone of us because overtly perfectionism sometimes takes refuge of fakeness. People should always be how they are. It is like a Jigsaw puzzle game- we got to get the right fit at the right time. A person good to me now would not have been the same in the past or might not be so in the future. But as of now he is just being the way I want him to be. This is what Coupling is all about.
A journey, its opportunities, its adversities, it characters, it adjuncts, its bygones all come hand in hand one at a time or multiple at a time. How we take them- savor them or vomit them, is on us. Sometimes we want to get rid of people and situations, sometimes we want a phase to pass by soon, sometimes we want something to come to us early and while wanting all of these we go through the pains, the smiles and the mixed emotions and that’s where and when we learn. The Almighty has the ability to give everything that everyone wants whenever they want but He doesn’t because He wants us to go through the expedition so that when we ask again we think about the process that we underwent. This is done to maintain a balance between Have’s and Have not’s. How? Someone who is ready to sense the feeling will ask again, someone who is not, won’t ask for the second time. And that will create a space for the Have Not’s to have it. The feel of getting it through hardships makes us determined and strong. The feel of getting it by doing nothing makes us complacent and weak and at a given day it’s “Survival of the Fittest” theory that reigns.
Live through the process. If you are tough, you can sail past. If you are feeble, God will infuse strength in you. God will do it in the form of bringing in more hurdles and blockades and at the end He will keep something coveted for which you would happily overcome all the obstructions. That cherished thing could be something big and large or could be just a smile on someone’s face. And it will act as the Driving Factor for you.
There can be no ideal conclusion to such a thought as thoughts like this are incessant and motivating. Just believe one thing- you are not alone, The Almighty is with you.