Cycle of Life | A tale to remember | BluePencilSharpner
The beginning.
It all starts with a rain drop,
falling all the way from sky. Almost coming in contact with chosen leaf of the
tallest tree in the jungle. And that is how it all begins.
Life is so similar to that drop of
rain, when it finds a way to the ground, by going through all the leaves it
could touch. Almost as similar to the way we touch people’s lives.
The beginning is the part of
everyone’s story which only few remember. The story when they took their first
deep breath in the outer world. The little soul of yours, always fears to go
out, to step out there and actually understand what’s it like to be there.
My favourite quote from “The
lord of the ring” is what Bilbo Baggins tells Frodo Baggins, “It’s
a dangerous business Frodo, going out your door, you step onto the road, and if
you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off”
And that is the most beautiful truth
I have ever heard. The root of your adventure is not actually the moment when
you decide to step onto the road, but it is actually the courage, that made you
take that step. The reason behind the whole story of your life will be the
beginning of your story.
If it might make things sound a bit
confusing than think of it this way. The drop of water which is trying to find
its way through the maze of life, the reason behind its story is not the point
where it reaches the chosen leaf of the tallest tree, but the moment when it
falls from the sky, and the moment where the wind forces it to fall on that
particular leaf.
In other words, that is exactly how
destiny plays its cards.
The Choice
Different stories talk about
different heroes, and what makes them hero is the choices they make. From the
very beginning of almost every fairy tale, you will find almost no difference
between the villain of the story and the hero of the story. But what makes the
reader understand the difference is actually the choices they make.
And it doesn’t mean making the wrong
choices makes you the villain of your story, it’s about understanding, what is
wrong with the choice that you made?
My favourite quote from “Harry
Potter Series” is what Albus Dumbledore tells Harry at the
end of the second year, “It is our choices Harry, that shows us what
we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
Hypothetically speaking, if you
might have the ability to be the best leader according to the theories of
leadership and war, but if you don’t make the right choice, you may never be
known as the great leader, and you might never become the hero of your own
story.
The Mistake
From the path that you choose comes
the platform where you commit your first of many mistakes. You try to make
things better but somehow things keep getting worse. The mistake that you made,
manipulates your thinking process, and you start to interpret that making this
choice on the first place was your biggest mistake.
Hold on right there,
The mistakes are just a part of your
life which teaches you to be a better version of yourself in future. Being
regretful over the choices you made and thinking those were your mistake is the
point where you have to understand this right here is the moment where your
making another mistake. And maybe the stupidest of all.
The truth is our thinking process
has evolved just the way we have. We try to look for openings from where we can
escape from this big humiliation that we are facing right now.
But the more important thing is to “Set things right”, taking a chance.
My favourite quote from “How
I met your mother” is what Ted Mosby says in his class, “If you’re not scared you are not taking a
chance, and if you’re not taking a chance, then what the hell are you doing,
anyway?”
Now here is the place your life
changes, here is the place you understand how to make things right.
The Confrontation
You have always been trying to just
escape from the horrible things that you have already done, and you know the
feeling where you feel horrible about it. You want to walk up to those people
and actually tell then that how sorry you are for the things that happened, and
how you would have done anything to prevent that from happening if you could.
But now it’s too late.
But is it?
Every little essence of the stories you have lived, lives in
the places and in the people, you have
lived those moments with. The essence of the stories that reminds you about the
moments and the fact how you would have lived those moments differently.
To finally confront, is to grab
those moments from the roots of their existence, and make the difference you
need to make. Face the fact that you’re the one who created those moments and
you will be the one who is going to set them right once again.
My favourite dialogue from “The
lion King” is what Rafiki
tells Simba, “Oh yes, the past can hurt. But you can either run from it, or learn
from it.”
The End
Just before you understand that now
you have set everything right, and now everything seems pretty good. And now
you can actually take rest and go back to sleep.
You need to look around one last time.
Look at the changes you have made, look at the people you have ever made happy,
look at the hearts you broke, look at the learnings you have given, look the
new world you have made since you have landed here.
Just as when Ferris, from “Ferris Bueller’s
Day Off” says, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop
and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”
Because you just don’t want to miss
any of it, for the one last time, look at it, and now you understand that you
have reached the end of this cycle.
Now once again you will fall from
the sky in the form of a rain drop and your journey will begin once again, once
again you are going to choose things differently, you’ll make some mistakes
again, you will confront the people you have ever hurt and set things right
again, and just like that you will end again and again and again.
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