Some days you would rather sleep through. Some days you would rather not live. The minute you wake up--these days--you get this empty feeling around your heart or in your stomach or wherever it is saying something is wrong.
Something could go horribly wrong today.
I feel like this right now; I don't know why. Probably the weather; probably the fact that I've got submissions due, and books to read, and problems to practise, and facts to memorize (this is the distasteful part--although sometimes, some days, one must do what is necessary to stay afloat and not drown in this ocean of thoughts and obsolete prerequisites), and it all becomes slightly overwhelming at times. Or very overwhelming. It's like a cycle, really, happy one day, sad the other. This is part of the reason I don't like cycles much, but it is not as if one could change this cyclic nature of life into something more appealing (to me). Some might say I'm mad. Some know I am.
Some days you feel like you are falling into an endless abyss of thoughts dark enough to kill Death. Some days you feel empty inside--maybe it's because something happened, long ago, that you're trying to forget and move on from, but with each passing hour, you find yourself being dragged deeper and deeper into that black hole you so desperately wish to escape.
I guess everybody feels this way once in a while. Or twice. Or more. I suppose the real question would be that if sadness is inevitable and cannot be beaten, what do we live for?
I do not know the answer; I can only guess.
You live to come home from a long, tiring journey from the deepest, vilest pits you encounter during these necessary excursions into this thing that is called the outside world. The outside world can be cruel sometimes--so much so that you have to look at Facebook posts detailing how someone's faith in humanity was restored: it is quite sad it has come to this--but things can change. I hope they will. It would not be good for humankind's skeletons if we were to go about falling into pits like Cheerios from a cereal box (except the bowl Cheerios fall into, here, has an end and a boundary).
You live so that you can taste the wind and feel it blowing through your hair in every direction, like a cloudburst of air. So you can smell the smoked corn cobs as you walk by a lone stall near the edge of the sidewalk, and buy one, relieved that you can finally pay for your food in Indian rupees. Maybe so you can photograph (and participate in) the explosion of colours during Ganesh Chaturthi or Pujo celebrations--or you might want to spend an afternoon with coffee and your favourite books--or coffee and your favourite friends.
Maybe you live so you can watch your favourite band live after nearly a decade. Or so that you can write. Or so you can dream. It wouldn't hurt to dream for a while. Nightmares are dreams, but all dreams aren't nightmares.
This is just a real-life nightmare; this too shall pass. It is only temporary, and what I should probably remember is that life is a rollercoaster that only goes up, and keeps going. Eventually, the skies will clear and the sun will shine so brightly that--it won't blind your eyes--but instead of black and white shades populating the cones inside your eye, you could see something profoundly new.
Something could go horribly wrong today.
I feel like this right now; I don't know why. Probably the weather; probably the fact that I've got submissions due, and books to read, and problems to practise, and facts to memorize (this is the distasteful part--although sometimes, some days, one must do what is necessary to stay afloat and not drown in this ocean of thoughts and obsolete prerequisites), and it all becomes slightly overwhelming at times. Or very overwhelming. It's like a cycle, really, happy one day, sad the other. This is part of the reason I don't like cycles much, but it is not as if one could change this cyclic nature of life into something more appealing (to me). Some might say I'm mad. Some know I am.
Some days you feel like you are falling into an endless abyss of thoughts dark enough to kill Death. Some days you feel empty inside--maybe it's because something happened, long ago, that you're trying to forget and move on from, but with each passing hour, you find yourself being dragged deeper and deeper into that black hole you so desperately wish to escape.
I guess everybody feels this way once in a while. Or twice. Or more. I suppose the real question would be that if sadness is inevitable and cannot be beaten, what do we live for?
I do not know the answer; I can only guess.
You live to come home from a long, tiring journey from the deepest, vilest pits you encounter during these necessary excursions into this thing that is called the outside world. The outside world can be cruel sometimes--so much so that you have to look at Facebook posts detailing how someone's faith in humanity was restored: it is quite sad it has come to this--but things can change. I hope they will. It would not be good for humankind's skeletons if we were to go about falling into pits like Cheerios from a cereal box (except the bowl Cheerios fall into, here, has an end and a boundary).
You live so that you can taste the wind and feel it blowing through your hair in every direction, like a cloudburst of air. So you can smell the smoked corn cobs as you walk by a lone stall near the edge of the sidewalk, and buy one, relieved that you can finally pay for your food in Indian rupees. Maybe so you can photograph (and participate in) the explosion of colours during Ganesh Chaturthi or Pujo celebrations--or you might want to spend an afternoon with coffee and your favourite books--or coffee and your favourite friends.
Maybe you live so you can watch your favourite band live after nearly a decade. Or so that you can write. Or so you can dream. It wouldn't hurt to dream for a while. Nightmares are dreams, but all dreams aren't nightmares.
This is just a real-life nightmare; this too shall pass. It is only temporary, and what I should probably remember is that life is a rollercoaster that only goes up, and keeps going. Eventually, the skies will clear and the sun will shine so brightly that--it won't blind your eyes--but instead of black and white shades populating the cones inside your eye, you could see something profoundly new.
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Oh, now I'm floating so high.
I blossom and die.
Send your storm and your lightning to strike
Me between the eyes
And cry.
Believe in miracles.
Oh hey, I'm floating up above the world now!
Oh hey, I'm floating up above the world now!
