“You
don’t need anyone else to save you. You already have yourself for that” this is
indeed that one line which has always pushed me back to doing all what I once
thought was impossible. The fact is, we never realize the strings that tie us
down until our very roots are affected. Quite often, we are so used to the
ordinary, the usual, the routine and the expected, that we tend to find comfort
in them and we never dare to step out of that zone to explore the unknown, to
rediscover yourself and to truly unveil what you yourself are capable of.
Just
a day back I woke up to this strange haunting dream, which kept me thinking. Just
when I have always thought finally I have learned to live, life has changed in
the instant. It has only been few days since I lost someone extremely dear to
the inevitable. Someone who was to stay for long….someone who was by all means
deserving to be around for a very long while.. but who could not make it. It is
only when we experience sudden losses and sudden changes in the ordinary, that
we actually tend to sit back… breathe and look into things that really matter. The
dream had me watch helplessly when people who were still alive and breathing
were getting buried. I was frantically trying to make the ones around
understand there is still life.. there is still hope.. all in vein. Waking up to that feeling of helplessness was
not really the best way to start a day with…but I could so get the reasons and
thought processes, which led me to having such a dream. In that space between
dream and reality, I did find myself all over again!
Quite
often we are all so preoccupied in this race, that race which we don’t even
know or realize whether we want to be a part of ; until one day we are left
with no time or no tomorrows. We are always pushed in different directions by
hundreds of conflicting impulses. I remember how when this year started my soul
sister and I made this promise to each other. To give ourselves the love... the
time… the space .. and the freedom that we truly deserve. That rare resolution
which we made to ourselves .. to spend at least an hour every week away from
everything and everyone.. just you and your thoughts… detached , has helped in
ways big and small to rearrange the misplaced pieces and put them back just the
way it should be .
‘Tamasha’
is one movie whose message resonated so well with me. This morning again, I
happened to see the movie while randomly browsing channels and I decided to get
back to this space without keeping it for another day. That moment when we realize
that the ‘some day’ which we all keep talking about, is indeed ‘today’. ‘Tu koi
aur he’ soulfully depicts the chaos..the identity crisis.. the life of denial..
the masked reality.. each one of us can very well relate to.
Just
like someone wise once jotted down ““Life is not lost by dying; life is lost
minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring
ways.” It is so true that we have to sometimes create and not just accept our
destiny. Do not just exist through each day, because all moments we just
fritter away are moments, which we will never get back. Whether those are
moments with ourselves or with the ones who truly matter! So let me ask you
this! What would you have done differently if you really appreciate the one
priceless gift life is and if you really see the imminence of the inevitable?! Go
for it today!
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the
stars, and see yourself running with them. The longest journey indeed is the journey
inward”
PS : This post goes out to my positivity
fairy, my rock , my brutally honest reflection, my Vaavamani !
