We as people are conditioned to worry about endings.. Be it a movie, a book, friendships, relationships, entire chapters in one's life or even life itself.. Why is it so? What is it that we fear? Is not an end necessary for a beginning to occur? Are these two not different sides to the same coin?
College is coming to an end.. Everybody is fixated on farewells and goodbyes.. Miss yous and keep-in-touches.. Mention that the end is near and a heavy and solemn feeling hangs in the air.. We immediately try our very best to grab hold of the fleeting moments.. Immortalizing the memories in our minds and hearts hoping that time stops dead in its tracks..
Is this whole view not myopic? Are we not being shallow and narrow sighted when we want to hold the present forever.. Have we not learnt that the present we cherish today is the future we tried to prevent from coming in the past? We have... We know.. yet we continue to strive effortlessly to freeze the sands of time as they pour in the hourglass..
Photographs are clicked left right and center.. Trips, lunches and dinners are planned frantically.. But will all this really help in preventing the inevitable?
What does one do then? Wait meekly and passively for that dreaded plunderer called tomorrow to show up and take away all that we hold dear and cherish? Of course not, we hold the moment by making most of it.. By trying and forgetting differences that have crept up between friends.. By undoing the hurt we might have caused with our words and actions.. By healing the scars that our blows might have made.. That is what makes the present immortal.. For it lays the foundation for the future.. The seeds from which the fruits of tomorrow spring forth..
And on that note, I'd like to say sorry.. For all the pain, broken promises, harsh words, irrational comments and violent behaviour.. And thank you for the love, hope and memories..
Friday, March 23, 2007
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