Hmm this was probably the worst & the best decade for me. I lost four very important people in my life and those days, now that I look back, were terrible for me. Probably my darkest days and even though I learned so much about life from those days I wish to never revisit those days/memories. I think there was way too much sadness the first like eight years? But it got so much better. I learned three most important things a person could have: Patience, Love and Fortitude. Words would fail me if I begin to describe the important of these three things in life but here’s my attempt.
Patience. So important to just survive. Patience is when you know the other person is wrong but you still hear him out hoping that he got something right. Patience is hoping for the rainbow after the rain. Patience is bearing out your pains and sorrows in belief that your future will be better. Patience is giving your mind a little kick when it becomes too narrow to engulf other’s beliefs. Patience is in a teacher explaining something to his student over an dover hoping that he would understand a tiny part of it everytime. But most importantly patience is calming that storm of anxiety in your heart which otherwise is huge enough to destroy you.
Love. One of the most important concepts known to humanity, an idea that’s over rated but it’s not, a feeling that is written about all the time but very few actually find it. I never believed in love, obviously I was too ‘young’ to or maybe too delusional. My idea of love was some fairytale-prince-meets-princess story, and yes I still do believe in that call me a fanatic all you want. What I didn’t realize was the true meaning of love. Love is simple. It sees no boundaries. Religion, culture, race, sex, ethnicity, social status, age, looks, language-all these words are meaningless. It exists in trivial things like making funny faces in front of an infant to make him stop crying. It exists in great things like taking a bullet for someone else. It works against hatred. It prevents people from falling apart completely. It brings hope. It rejuvenates one’s soul. Love creates you. Love has enough power to completely shatter you, and we name that power hatred. Love is not delusional. The idea of having someone who cares for you is not plastic. Heck wanting someone who wants you back is not clichéd. Love is not over rated, in fact love is rare. No matter how much you deny it, we all are in love. We all seek for love in different forms. Tell me something, tomorrow if you run someone over won’t you feel something for that stranger? Won’t you help him out? Even if you’re too scared to, won’t have that lump of guilt in your throat? That guilt is love, love for humanity. Love for humans. Proof that there is a bit of humanity in you. But the reason why we are not able to find love is that people assume since it’s simple it should be easy. No one’s willing to work hard for it. No one cares enough to fight for it. No one thinks it’s worth giving up for.
Fortitude. Probably my favourite word from this language. The power to stand up every time you fall. Do you have any idea how immense this power is? Fortitude is knowing that the whole world thinks of you as a failure but proving them otherwise. fortitude is knowing you won’t make it but having enough courage to see it through no matter what. Fortitude is extending your limits and hoping your this fall was the rock bottom and everything would be up from now. Fortitude is enjoying this roller coaster called life. Fortitude is having every reasonable excuse in the world to give up yet you keep fighting. Yes, that is the power you probably need the most in this world to survive. I mean all these superheroes, every episode of captain planet, it wasn’t until these superheroes were severely beaten that they got up for the one last time and defeated the evil.
P.S. I know I didn’t do justice to these three words but this is what basically defined my decade. happy New Year ya’ll
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