LOSS

Loss of any and every kind becomes a huge part of our lives. There is no heart that is left untouched by the idea, or occurrence of loss. Consider what you may: time, possession, a person; or a thought, moment, or love that is lost. Surely, there is something so far that each one of us has lost- something that we once held dear to us, something that was loved.

Loss leaves us with a hollow space right in the middle of our universe. It leaves us feeling like amateurs at this strangeness called ‘life.’ As and how the circumstances may choose to favor, it leaves us with a scar that changes every perspective. It changes our world, life, and us. We are left with everything a mess. It is the kind of mess that we have to deal with without having any idea of where to start, yet the sooner it is dealt with- the better. The way one deals with it depends on the rawest nature of what you have caged inside of you. You shall either rise, or you shall stay low.

It is a difficult task- to change what makes your core, but it is not impossible. Consider the insecurity and negativity in your core to be a stone. A stone that brings and holds you down, and tells you that you are left alone after this loss- that you have nowhere else left to go than bury yourself in the darkness of silent moments. Although, remember to also consider that with the right spirit and kind helping hands, there is no stone that can be left unturned. It is all a matter of faith.

So have faith- in you first, and then in the energy that surrounds you. It is this energy that gives you the power to endure and overcome the loss, and to sustain yourself through this process.

FEAR

Fear: Is like smoke

          Dark and dense.

          Rising.

          Filling up almost every possible corner.

          It is formless.

         Ready to gain any form

         and how much ever space.

         Slowly. Steadily. Heavily.

         Rising to fill everything.

         Until everything is : Dark and dense.

                                           Suffocating.

                                           Until all that lies ahead is invisible.

Let it not: Surface.

                  Find the tiny hollow in your mind or matter.

Divert it. Release it. Fight it!

Until it is no more visible.

Let yourself surface – free, confident, and pure.

COURAGE (THE COWARD?)

Courage is a strange thing.

You may chose to disagree at once, and why not! - Because courage and strength are anything but strange. They reflect positivity, strength, victory, a sense of satisfaction from trying. They keep you going. It is only when you come face to face with some situations that you may realize that courage is strange.

One lives through different moods of life- of happiness, sadness, struggle, fear, success, and many more, and in this journey not only does he live but also fights, fails, and conquers himself. He shows strength in the toughest of times thinking that he is winning all these battles – and in turn saving all his strength to fight the tougher battles coming his way.

Though, what he does not know is that there may rise a day when the battle may be tougher than he thought; and he may have to watch his armour of strength shatter into pieces and fall off, revealing his soft self, and there would be nothing he can do but watch his courage walk off like a coward.

The only thing that he can do in these weakest moments of his life- is let his courage walk away gracefully, embrace his soft self, and prepare it for the battles to come.

SOMETIMES IT IS OKAY!

At times it is okay to be afraid – and even better is to let others see it.

It may happen so that the souls that strive to be fearless are more fearful than those souls who are drenched in fear all the times. As sometimes while striving to be fearless they often conveniently slip into ‘pretending’ to be fearless- thinking it will help them move past. Therefore, pretending to be motivated when they are not, and pretending to be brave while all they can really think of is crying out loud.

Though it is only a matter of time when neither one more song, nor one more quote would lift their spirits up. It is then that their tender fearful souls stand in front of them – fearless – and to confess.

It is true that one has to be strong and fight, and never fall apart. It is true that one has to keep on trying. But, sometimes there is just little one can do to fight – and maybe sometimes not even that. Sometimes it is okay to accept the way you are- fearful, scarred, and terrified.

Maybe sometimes - it is okay to pause and stop trying.
Sometimes it is okay to lean.

ONE LIFE AND MANY WORLDS

When we look upon our life as ‘one life’ among others, we may be able to see that our ‘one life’ lives in a ‘one world’ of its own. The world around us can be seen as a unique intersection of various such ‘one worlds’. Each life thus being a unique combination, which gives us various opportunities to cross paths with other lives around. Paths in which we meet, mingle, love, and part ways with them.

When such paths cross each other and two worlds decide to move along together, the journey feels different, happy, and joyful. The worlds mingle like fragrance in the air-indistinguishable and inseparable.

Yet, there may come a day when road splits into two: one through the woods and the other through the waters. It may also happen that the worlds may part leaving either the air or the fragrance. In times like these when your life may want to wait right there where the roads split, remember one thing that whether you chose to walk or swim there are many more lives waiting for you with their worlds and many new fragrances.

So, walk along and swim the waters with your 'one life' towards their 'many worlds'.

THIS : THAT

There are times, when we are at a standstill even while we are moving along. Times when happiness, excitement and fear all exist in that one moment of thought. The moment of thought, which is like air waiting to become the wind - determined to blow in a particular direction.

Below are a few lines, dedicated to that one and many moments of thought. Lines to help us hang in there for a little while longer - lines to stir us a little while we wait.

If dark is the place to be:

for tears,

Let it be for smiles as well.

If void is the space to be:

with fears,

Let it be with tries as well.

If still is the way to be:

for dreams,

Let it be for fears as well.

If alone is the state to be:
for you,
Let there be space for strengths as well.

ENDURANCE

We face many different situations in life every day. They may be good, bad, and sometimes really ugly. They mould us, bend us, break us - but, eventually they pass and leave us with something that we learnt or experienced. Something called – a change.

We are taught to stand up and fight, and also sometimes to back off and move on. All in all we are taught to endure. Endure the situation, the pain, the happiness, and above all endure whatever lies within us, may it be joy, fear, guilt, hatred or anything else. Endurance makes us strong, independent, and responsible. It helps us find out who we are meant to be.

But, does asking for help or taking support make us weak and dependent?

Maybe. Maybe not.

During the peak of summer, little extra water provides the plant with the only element it needs to make food and energy to survive. Similarly, a few kind words (or some bitter ones) do not make us weak. They make us strong enough to survive the situation. They help us endure and leave us with what is called – a change!

Endure. Survive. Change.