“Just shut down your sense of sight for a while and listen to me!”, me talking to a friend over phone continues,
“You know we say, “life is like a river, it goes on and the running water is the fresh water,” but tell me doesn’t an ecosystem starts only from steadiness? The moist soil at the bottom of the pond, which at the shore of it will rejuvenate small fresh grass, a house for a turtle in the bottom, a hamlet to creeptures and with time and will give you water that you can drink on daily basis. After all, this whole diversity on earth evolved only because it endured. Else we would have also ended with some traces or deposits in soil like the dinosaurs did! So, no doubt running water is what remains fresh but it’s only the steady water which dwells most beautiful life!
But guess what? This was an iceberg in the stereotypical theories and this has to be broken down. And yes, it did. The answer came out as, yes, it’s the steadiness which dwelled life but the steady I’m saying, was it actually steady? It was changing, in itself every second. Everything that is happening is only for a while and this while could sometimes take ages too.
A single cell changing to form a whole giant human being.A small particle of soil forming the massive Mount Everest and so is the steady pond ready to form a whole new diversity.
Now, how come this is any way related to your problem (adulting), you must be thinking? Well guess what? Yesterday you were #justChilling in your mother’s tummy, today running to gather food for your own tummy! Yes. But it is not always this simple. This (adulthood) takes you through a way long roller coaster ride. You get to see physical, financial, moral, influential and no doubt emotional uproars. And this is the phase when you have no one by your side to make you understand it. You go through a sturm und drang (only a fancy term for emotional outbreaks and whatever) and because since childhood you had someone to tell you what to do and what not to do because you were unaware that which one is the good ginnie and which one is evil resting on your either shoulders? But now you are left all by yourself and on to your fate to figure out one stupid decision and my life will be equal to a pavilion of comicstan! Well adulting would make you tizzy until you surrender all your backups to it. And nothing!
Here’s a wise advise, don’t panic much.
This all is ultimately going to change. It might go worse than what it is now or hope you do better in future. But the truth is, the problems that you are facing today will not remain the same in future. Like a famous superstar could be found in the local streets with lost fame, maybe you become a superstar in future! Never judge your potential. A nursery fail or a life’s failure, you are a hero and a champion of the future. And it’s not the exaggeration of thoughts or being overly-optimistic (yes bro!) this is the reality. Just stand for what you believe, to your morals and to your dreams or even if you don’t have any dreams life is big, you’ll figure out of your own. The stereotypes are made for those who are afraid to take challenges. So stand out for yourself to create a difference.
Baki, kuch to log kahenge, logon ka Kam hai kehna.
(Else, people are going to speak anyway)”
My roommate at the other corner of the room, “I guess there should be some start up for this genre of unemployment!”
Friend (on phone): I guess I should finish my assignment for tomorrow now. And hopefully talk to you never if I’m going to get such kind of speeches.
All of us burst out in laughter and went back to the life with no one understood what I said. On the other hand, me thinking, “I guess I myself could remember it when this happens to me.”
-Love
Manisha Yadav
Rainbows & Rain 