Saturday, April 12, 2014

Reflections...Lent 2014


©      I was asked by you, why I agreed to everything that you said. That moment, I realized that many a times there was no “Right” or “Wrong” per se. It was only one’s personal experience and perspective that shaped a thought or an opinion. However simple this realization may seem, I learned it only now. So, many unnecessary conflicts could be avoided only if there was tolerance and willingness to get into the “other person’s shoe” to understand what they meant and why.

©      I am reminded and learning to honour and live in my ‘Here’ and ‘Now’, which is all that I have with me. A well lived Here and Now will automatically take care of my past and the future.

©      I learned of the purpose of my life (at least partially) when I started connecting and relating with people around me, which I never did before I lost a dear one. I learned there were people who endured so much more suffering than I, even cumulatively underwent ever, and needed love and affection to help them speak out and heal. I saw that, many people, particularly in the age bracket of 25-35 years, were somewhere broken down within and had therefore, either shut the doors on love or had taken to a road, which will eventually, lead to depression and loneliness.

©      Whenever overcome by loneliness, I have touched the lowest plain one can, feeling helpless. But, I thank God, who has always been there to bend down to lend me his hands to hold them and rise again to the zenith that awaits me each day. Surprisingly, when I stand up again, I find the entire horizon so bright and fresh as if created anew only for me.

©      Complications are a part and parcel of life, and thus, inevitable. So why should I waste my days getting worked up about things that haven’t even happened, merely on the basis of their probability to happen and not happen?

©      I want to have a soul of a zealot and an evangelist to do all that I want and need to do.

©      I am acutely aware of my fallibility and hence, also the fact that, even when I lose control of myself, someone still is in perfect control of me, always! So, I can afford to go off the tangent sometimes ;-)

©      Today, I made a very (self surprisingly) unusual decision, and quite painfully too, but I had to do it perhaps for us to be able to embark on our individual journeys. It’s just like the mother bird pushing the baby bird off the protective nest to enable it to fly. Hard but that’s how we will also learn to fly freely.

©      I don’t know how long you’d want to share my life with me, but the uncertainty is in everything for that matter. So, I want to live my present with you, to create memories of a new journey together, however far we may be able to traverse is immaterial (painfully), but at least, we’d still have shared each other and learned new lessons from our mutual experiences. I wish to make this journey memorable for both of us, leaving the worry about destination to the time.

©      I can’t let Fear scare me out…no way! I will give it a tough competition and surely defeat it. It can’t weaken my spirit to take risks in life, even if I would ultimately be exposed to disappointment, failures and heartbreaks. 







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