We are friends. Two friends who are bound by complementarity than similarity. Two people, whose hearts and souls are bound together as their minds and lives are moving apart. We are different. As different as people can be. She lives her life with others beliefs and I believe in making every mistake on my own. She lives in faith while i have worked hard to move away from it. I am strong-willed and want to build my life on my own while she is accommodating and ever so obedient. She believes in the power of the almighty and i in the human mind and spirit.
Could such different people be friends ? Seems unlikely, but we were. For nearly a decade now... through ups and downs and life's various trials.... As i fought through them and she made peace with them... Different approaches but who's to say what's better and what's not.
But today, we stand at the crossroads. She is walking on roads that she is not sure of but is doing so because people who love her have told her so. She walks in faith holding on to nothing but hope. They tell her life is a quicksand and we must all dive in to battle it and she has decided to take the plunge. I try telling her that this is not the only way and that there are other places in the world where the ground is hard and fertile and where flowers bloom. Where the sun shines not to burn you but to warm you, where the rains bring you joy and not a flood of tears, where happiness is attainable and not merely the horizon at the distance. I tell her and I wait. I wait for her call to pull her out. of these mires. But I can't do anything else because it is her life and her choice after all. I stand in the corner, feeling lost and helpless, counting my options and biding my time. Hoping that she will look back, hear my pleas and turn around. I want her to make her choice on her own, knowing fully well all the other options that she has before her.
Life is not just about one way. There are many ways and many places and we need to make those informed choices on our own. Not because someone else thinks they are right but because we think they are right. I want to scream out to her so she knows that we build our lives by our own two hands. No one else, not even her "God" up there will do that for us. We have to battle it out and build our lives. We have to make our choices, make our mistakes and live our lives. I want to pull her back but something holds me back... It's her life and I can't live it for her. I have to let go and its my lesson to learn.
But dear friend, I wish you 'd understand all that I am trying hard to not tell you. I wish you all the happiness in the world on this new journey of yours but please know that even though i might be on a different road, i will always be there for you. And I am just a call away. I wish that the quicksand i see ahead is nothing but a mirage and i hope that you are walking on a steady ground. I wish you all the happiness and the joy, because you deserve it and its time you had your share of the good things in life.
I realize that one of the most difficult things in life is to "let" people you care for make mistakes and go down roads that you know are wrong. But... its my lesson to learn and my road to take...
Could such different people be friends ? Seems unlikely, but we were. For nearly a decade now... through ups and downs and life's various trials.... As i fought through them and she made peace with them... Different approaches but who's to say what's better and what's not.
But today, we stand at the crossroads. She is walking on roads that she is not sure of but is doing so because people who love her have told her so. She walks in faith holding on to nothing but hope. They tell her life is a quicksand and we must all dive in to battle it and she has decided to take the plunge. I try telling her that this is not the only way and that there are other places in the world where the ground is hard and fertile and where flowers bloom. Where the sun shines not to burn you but to warm you, where the rains bring you joy and not a flood of tears, where happiness is attainable and not merely the horizon at the distance. I tell her and I wait. I wait for her call to pull her out. of these mires. But I can't do anything else because it is her life and her choice after all. I stand in the corner, feeling lost and helpless, counting my options and biding my time. Hoping that she will look back, hear my pleas and turn around. I want her to make her choice on her own, knowing fully well all the other options that she has before her.
Life is not just about one way. There are many ways and many places and we need to make those informed choices on our own. Not because someone else thinks they are right but because we think they are right. I want to scream out to her so she knows that we build our lives by our own two hands. No one else, not even her "God" up there will do that for us. We have to battle it out and build our lives. We have to make our choices, make our mistakes and live our lives. I want to pull her back but something holds me back... It's her life and I can't live it for her. I have to let go and its my lesson to learn.
But dear friend, I wish you 'd understand all that I am trying hard to not tell you. I wish you all the happiness in the world on this new journey of yours but please know that even though i might be on a different road, i will always be there for you. And I am just a call away. I wish that the quicksand i see ahead is nothing but a mirage and i hope that you are walking on a steady ground. I wish you all the happiness and the joy, because you deserve it and its time you had your share of the good things in life.
I realize that one of the most difficult things in life is to "let" people you care for make mistakes and go down roads that you know are wrong. But... its my lesson to learn and my road to take...
1 comment:
nice creation..quite an emotional one though..shall look forward to more such pieces of creativity :-)
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