River of life: A life lesson

One can never survive in despair.

Whether it’s a past event or a future possibility, we often find ourselves consumed by the hunger of our hopelessness.

The hunger is so intense and unbounded that we keep dwelling on what has happened in the past and continuously overthink about what will happen next.

It's almost as if the present moment stops being an existence for us. The mind keeps circling back to those same thoughts, just in different forms, over and over again.

What if things were different? This is when we build alternate timelines.

Or what if they weren't? This is when we glorify even our traumas and churn them into sweet Nostalgia, somehow!

As we keep pondering, weeks and months pass away in isolation. So much for un-settled emotions!

We keep searching for something new, yet keep getting bogged down by our “old”.

Yes, it's true that glimpses of future from the old is possible.

However, that should not become our whole coping mechanism with respect to actions taking in front of us. Not everything needs to be a data point!

Our life and relationships are much the same.

If everything was butter smooth or nightmarish in the past, does not mean it will always remain in a linear trajectory.

After all, everything is as Random as it should be. Our lives flow their own accord.

They change day by day, one bank of the river fills, while the other side breaks. This is entirely natural.

What we must rather focus on doing is adapting the sails of our boats to this meandering river of life.

You and I, we are all just mere sailors with smiles.