Life?
What about it?
What’s so extraordinary about it that despite the fact that everyone lives it, no one understands it and we just can’t stop talking about it.
Fahd asked me this question the other day…life? What have you learnt? And I repeated a line from linkin park ‘ life is a lesson, you learn it when you’re through’.
But do we?
Two of the most dearest people in my life are going through problems right now. Problems I know I can’t fix. Problems that are sapping their energy and rationality. And I know, that no matter what kind of wisdom I offer them or how much I try to console them…they will not come around until they decide to.
I know, most people tell me that I haven’t been through much in my life. Agreed! No arguments there. But sometimes you don’t need to go through a lot to learn something important. And sometimes, no matter what you go through, you just cannot understand. That generally happens to people in love.
Yes! That is my opinion about love. It is an emotion and it exists.
We are all in love with love! How fascinating!!!
But this emotion, this one single emotion can be so devastating that it can take years of your life…sometimes it can take the life out of your years as well.
I know, I have been there.
Here’s what I have to say about it.
Life is a series of sunrises and sunsets. Sunsets (like this amateur picture I took today while talking to saddy) are an end to something that is a part of our life. We often fear it and in that fear miss the exquisiteness of it. The glorious colors, the magnificence of the moment, everything is wasted in our woes. And yet, every sunset is beautiful in its own way. Problems we face in our everyday life are often like these sunsets. But once we get past them, we realize that we’re truly better off.
After all, there would be no sunrise, if there were no sunsets.