The Life of Others

Dry as the peach coloured leaves of the autumn, still as the snowcapped mountains of the winter and pinching as the heat of the summer, sometimes life isn't as colourful as the flowers of the spring. And what makes life worth living and enjoyable is actually the bitter and competitive part of it.

Like every other picture, the canvass of life has two sides, the one side is what most of the people keep looking at and the other side is what they keep dreaming about. From the womb of the mother to the grave, humans spend their lives longing for things and trying pretty hard to get them but to fulfill their never ending list of desires and dreams they lost what they really care about, they lost their beloved ones and they lost those for whom they do things in the first place. In the end deprivation, destitution and impecuniosity is all what they acquire.

But greed in human nature makes a human a pendulum, moving to and fro between the ‘dreaming’ end and the ‘becoming true’ end.  They chase things and they get them, but they want more, so again they start chasing and they get it again, again something more, chase it and get it and it continues. In between chasing and getting they forget what they must chase to get what they really want. And this cycle continues till the motion of the ‘pendulum’ damps due to the tiresome and arduous tasks humans try to complete.  

Many of the ‘optimistic’ entities of our society always brags about the beautiful side of this picture but the problem is that with the exception of these very few ‘optimistic’ or rather fortunate people about more than 2/3^rd of the total have to endure and suffer, they have to go through the tunnel of poverty, unemployment and illiteracy but the hope of the bright sun at the mouth of the deep and dark tunnel keep them moving, they keep staggering and struggling and at the end all they get is not the warmth of the sun rather the pinching heat and torridness.  

In short, not all the people who are being bestowed with the ‘gift’ of life get to enjoy it, rather arduousness and strenuousness of life becomes their fate. Enviousness of others life then results in never ending efforts and life threatening ventures. We have to grasp the idea that what everyone of us have is what is most suitable for us not the version others have or we want but the one we are blessed with. And that’s where we have to change our strategy, we have to understand that “the best way to enjoy the true flavours of life is not to chase the dreams but to become them.”