How often has it happened to you.
Life seems to be going along at immaculate pace like seasoned actors playing the perfect roles in a smooth screenplay in a prodigiously crafted script.The apt word to describe your existence and current state of being is --- Insouciant.
Then suddenly out of oblivion ---WHAM, a thunderbolt strikes you and sends you twirling into a downward bottomless spiral.A spiral where the depth is directly proportional to the misery,hopelessness and loneliness you experience.
Subdued by the dual burden of present problems and emotional attachment and memories of the glorious past,the process of fighting back is exacerbated.
So what does one do....
A possible answer can be summed up in the following lines from the poem "ULYSSES" by Lord Tennyson.....
We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are,-- One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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I was barely 8 when i saw her.She was all dressed up in the latest
trends of that season.I am thankful to my
maa for uniting us.I marvelled at her color,her curvaceous
body which seemed to fit into my hands as if she were not a discrete entity,rather my
extension.
Though Maa introduced her to me, she got rather touchy about my growing involvement with my Sweet Heart.What Maa thought would be a casual friendship,a few hours of fun and frolic, turned into something beyond the sense of space and time.Our Relationship transcended reality.We spent hours on end ,together,sometimes snuggled together in bed, sometimes sitting on the bench beneath the gulmohar tree in my school.Sharing laughs and anguish,victories and defeats.Revelling in our common dreams , visiting far off planets,making new friends,flying through space..
It was brilliant.But I guess Fate had other plans ....We were separated.. It was the worst feeling i had ever experienced in my life.. Her disease won.. She lost.. We lost....
I tried to send her to her place of birth,Japan, with hope and tears in my eyes..That was the last i saw of her..
All i got was a regret letter and a final Photograph of her... Some Entities give you calmness and happiness even after their death... She was a perfect example..
I still Dream of her.. She left me but not her Spirit... I loved her and will continue doing so..
Forever and ever..
My love.. My first Hand Held Video Game.......... ;)
I just had a conversation with a dear friend studying in one of the best MBA Colleges of India.The Internship week is coming near and so he was busy giving the final touches to his CV.The problem with being among the best is that whatever you might be or have achieved in your life , is mitigated by someone or something.
As they say "There is always a bigger fish".
So this friend who has superb Academics and Extra Curricular record is tense about his CV and the competition and whether he will be selected by the Companies.
Is there any end to this.Personally I like competing.The Sweet taste of victory one experiences is Brilliant but i feel it is also suffocating.
What is more important .Competition or being happy?
Until you know that your neighbour drives a better car than you ,you would not start thinking about it.People say that don't look what others have.But such things do affect us,the magnitude varies from person to person.
Somehow i am not a very ambitious person, or that is what i feel , so somehow after such thoughts creep into my mind i find ways to pacify myself into being content with what i have got.
But the point is , what is all this competition leading us to.Yes competition brings out the best in us but what is the limit of competition. When is it enough to secure something and say yes this is it.Now i have proved myself and I am out of all this competition.
Sadly in today's Capitalist Economy with Cut Throat Competition where Running is the key to survival this case looks just jike a figment of Imagination..
Though i say all this , I am also running the same race.
But the problem with such "Rat Race" is that even if you win you still are a RAT...That too running even after reaching the finish line since the track is circular and there is no Beginning and no End....
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