We have a perception that we are the king of our life. We think
we live with the principle “this is my life and my world, I can do whatever I
wish to do”. But in reality, life is all about choices and accepting &
adapting the changing time and turning the direction of my life’s vehicle
according to the road, set up by various controllable & uncontrollable
factors. It requires balance and lots of sacrifice to choose the choice where I
wish to travel. There are so many internal and external factors to be
considered before choosing the choice. When we look every things happening in
our life is, after all, the choices we take. What is called independence? Or king
of my own life? Is it taking the decision which brings only difficulty and
unhappiness to our life? Or is it taking the right decision so that we live our
life with dignity and respect? If we look strategically we find that, the
people we call successful people, are the people who work on their long term
vision, which is something great and something which is very hard to achieve. But
the funny thing is, in order to get what he wish, he sacrificed many important
and happiness moment of his life.
My point is, life is not that easy as we see in movie. It is
not that easy to say “I love you” to the person we love the most, wearing the
dress we like the most, choosing the career we want the most, doing the job
where we wish to live, and finding the love we require the most. But we find
the way to give satisfaction, for temporary and not completely, by substituting
of those things with something we don’t have but we wish to have. Like looking
her/his photo (reference – old Hindi/Manipuri movie), by keeping the picture of
those dresses we like, by dreaming about that career we want and by living with
the hope “one day”. In the same way people who love his place very much but
cannot live there because of the circumstances and his long term vision/goal of
his life, usually express beauty and love of his place with few l lines. That gives
kind of satisfaction to him. Same way I
am trying here, even though I am not a good writer.
I opened the old almirah and found those old books, with
spider webs on it,
Where my childhood dreams are hidden inside the pages.
Some are buried
completely, some are hidden and waiting for me to open.
The smell of the air is still the same, fresh and pure with lots of memory in it.
The sun is still rising up from the middle of two beautiful hills,
which is visible from my house,
I remembered my mother and father used to tell me to pray
the Sun,
while I was struggling with my small hands to open my eyes.
And I remember the question I had in my mind “is it right to
pray without taking bath?”
I think of my friends, some are still in home, many are
vanishes from my life to find their own life,
though their memory is still living in my mind with this
village where we grown up together.
I see the field, now half occupied by Indian Army, once we
used to play all kinds of sports.
I think of our cricket team and dedication we put on our
game.
The sun is still hot, the air is still fresh, and field is
still empty
Except those friends and I are here to play on it.
The dreams of small boys are hiding beneath the grass of
that filed.
I am feeling of digging it out, but I have no time as like
my other friends.
I have to leave this place with sweet memories and hope.
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