By Jaffrina Joseph
“What is life from your point of view?” is a random question that one of my friends asked me. “It sucks, but you’re gonna enjoy it” is the immediate response that my brain gave me. But jokes apart, for a minute there I tried to interpret life from my point of view.
A year back, exactly a year back, my belief system was different. If someone had asked me back then, I would have given them a different answer. “Life on earth is a vapor, it is vanity of vanities, we are here preparing for an eternal life”, this would have been my answer.
But no, nobody asked me this question a year back. The words that come after this are what I think life is from my perspective.
Life- is a lot of things. One can never boil it down to a simple definition. You might have come across a variety of statements like
Life is a rollercoaster.
Life is about creating yourself.
It is not the length of life, but the depth of life.
And so much more..
Some definitions make sense and some don’t. When they don’t make sense, we think it is too deep for us to understand or too shallow to be meaningful!
Life- according to me, is never meant to be justified or defined. It is a culmination of a variety of experiences. You keep living one step at a time. Life is definitely not a piece of cake or a bed of roses. You must have heard this a hell lot of times growing up! It really isn’t. A person cannot wake up to good news every single day of his/her/their life. On the other hand the Titanic doesn’t sink every night.
You fall, you learn, you break, you reach your threshold, you take responsibility for the shit you do, you cry out loud, at times you hold back your tears, you yell in anger, you lose people, you change, you leave the people you love for their good, you sacrifice and you grow up. Just when you think you are something in life, everything falls apart. You don’t give up, you don’t revert back immediately either. You take your time. You might need a few days or a few years. It is okay to fall apart, how soon you get up is what really matters. You are allowed to mess up and seek out help. You are allowed to need help when you can’t.
Men living in mansions aren’t the happiest and the men on roads aren’t always depressed. Any man can be happy and any man can be sad. Perspective is all that matters. You can tell me “My mobile is dead, I have to talk to these losers now” or “My mobile is dead, let me do something fun with my buddies here”. Perspective matters! Life offers you a million perspectives, the lens that you choose at the end matters.
A moment missed, is lost forever. The same moment is not going to repeat itself so that you can see what you missed back then. So live every moment as if it could be your last one on earth, cause you never know! Spend time with the ones that you love, your work can wait. If you want to experience something, just go for it. Certain things don’t happen often. Never miss a chance. Keep going, the best is yet to come.
By Jaffrina Joseph
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