That's Life!

It’s almost midnight. Jim is lying in his bed. He’s not trying to sleep. Who wants to miss that precious moment in his life when he’s turning 18? He too is all willing to get that license and hear the roaring engines firing at 90 miles an hour as he rides his first car on the freeway. He’s sure Sarah will sit beside him clinging to him tightly before they have their first kiss and as of now he’s clutching his cell phone tightly hoping it to ring and beep as his peers call him in a few seconds.

Jim isn’t any different from you and me. He’s just like all of us and questions like “why do we live?” or “why are we born?” don’t haunt him. He considers them weird and unanswerable just like you and me. They are for him unimportant. Though he doesn’t think about them do you know what he’s doing as he’s lying there? He’s thinking about how much freedom is that stroke of midnight going to give him. He’s thinking about his future and the new experiences it will get him.

We all come in this world without much of a choice. We can’t choose our parents, we can’t choose our appearances and neither do we have a choice of our innate qualities or tendencies whether good or bad. But there’s one more fact. We don’t have a choice to die either. Most of us are too afraid of committing suicide. In other words we just don’t have the guts. So here we are. Left with decades and sometimes a century of time with not much of choice and so we are forced. Forced to live.

In these decades of forced vacation called life, we start finding ways to spend it. Some people use their qualities and tendencies. Some develop them from others. We label these ways in several forms. Some call it love, some profession, some passion and some…don’t know what!. In short we all have to find something to do because ultimately we have no choice.

Long journeys have to have halts and breaks. So we go away from our passions and have experiences. People don’t get addicted to alcohol or drugs. They are not addicted to sex. They get addicted to experiences of them. There are so many experiences here. Everyone is addicted to a different experience. This addiction to experiences is what we call life. And its so strong to get rid off that by the time we can only form a list of these experiences, our time here is over! And that’s life!

Whether having these experiences is good or bad, or what leads to heaven or hell isn’t for us to decide. If god exists, he will take care of it. Make justice. Find the best way to spend your vacation here. That’s all. Don’t ever cry about yesterday. Be happy because you have today. You may not have a tomorrow to think about it. Some people die in a day, some in weeks. Some old, some young and no one knows when the time is over.

THPrince

Why...?

Why is she always a princess?
And he a knight?
Why does she always sleep on rose petals
While he has to fight?
Why has she to be rich?
And he always poor?
Why she b'ful and he always sore?
Why are her parents always obstinate?
Why is he always so passionate?
Why does his heart always break?
Or if it doesnt...
Why do they die at their love's stake?
Why isnt romance ever any different?
Are common hearts any less fervent?
Why do they exchange always their hearts
When it all happens in the mind?
Oh! I'm tired! Why dont the author something better find!

The Happy Prince

Have You Ever....?

Have you ever smelt roses with you first breath on a winter morning?

Have you ever slept gazing at the wonder of stars on a clear night with a vacant
mind…oblivious of time?

Have you ever slept in your mother’s arms at 17 feeling the warmth of her body and that
that moment should never end?

Have you ever stood at a cliff in twilight in windy dusk feeling the poverty and wealth of
your being at the same time?

Have somebody’s eyes made you feel tremendously joyful and sorrowed at the same
time?

Have you ever loved something without knowing and wanting to know its reason?

Have you ever felt like possessing, owning and setting something free at the same time?

Have you ever felt pleasure spending nights mesmerized in your past?

Have you ever felt the desire to desire nothing?

Have you ever…Felt God?

The Happy Prince