[Preface
It is indeed very difficult, almost impossible, to come back from the
dead and it has taken a rather long time. Just a few days back
someone had suggested, "You need to 'hook things out', you
know... if you can't get it with straight fingers."
"Never learnt to bend (my)
fingers like the politicians. Now at this stage in life when my hairs are greying over....," I
told him. He giggled but then suddenly I brightened up. "You
know sometimes I feel like I'm being lured to the end of the line.
One day the Big Angler, instead of finding the bait gone, shall
surely hook me up like a minnow or a carp. That'll be the only
hooking up I'll experience now, I think," I added.
He burst out to his seams with
laughter.
]
...
Enchained, paralyzed, restricted,
caged... I live at the end of a blind alley, if I live at all.
Do I cry over it?
I do. What else is left there to do
except lament over things and events that could have taken a far
better turn and might have made heaven possible but instead chose not
to.
Is there independence?
No way! The Bird of Freedom is
enchained.
Is there hope?
A tiny flickering of light is still
visible far, far away. That's all.
How do I live then?
Moment to moment just as I die with
every beat of my heart. I don't kill myself outright. I feel like I
need to suffer what others can't.
Why?
I don't know. I just feel it in my
head, feel it deep inside.
How can I continue like this?
There are dozens of ways I cannot
continue along. What remains in the end is the only possibility, no?
The wind can flatten me down to the ground, crush me. But it won't
break the chain, carry me off. And so I remain... where I have been chained.
I oftentimes pull the hairs out of
my head, bite hard and swallow harder. It's unfortunate that I
haven't gone insane so far but that would have been better I suppose.
And yet to preserve my sanity I keep thinking about the
possibilities: what would I do if I had all the things that you have?
All the opportunities, the doors as well as the windows?
And perhaps that makes me who I am.
Do I not worry?
I certainly do. If humanity were not
to worry about things that could go wrong, then progress would have
been impossible and everything would have gone backwards in time.
Neither mistakes could have been avoided, nor disasters averted.
There are regrets, sure. When
limitations confine you, there are fewer options to pick up,
possibilities get reduced. Oftentimes one just has to face it all and
suffer hopelessly. But perhaps that is what it is that makes a
man(kind). No ego, no pride... Just a humble being with profound
realizations that there are many things that cannot ever be changed,
many events that cannot ever be undone, changed or chosen.
And these are integral parts of
life. And that is one good thing that has to be lived, dull or
colourful. As it comes. The question is not what comes but how one
faces it. Yes there are certainly ways to stand and face the
tribulations like a man(kind).
So, even if it be just glasses of
water, let's clink them and celebrate. At least for a moment, at least for the time being, and as long as we're together.
Cheers!
[The passage or
passages presented above are taken from a book by the author. The
emoticon has been taken from google search and I hold no copyrights
to it: it belongs to the original creator and/or copyright holder who
I do not know. It has been used here for purely literary/educational purposes. When claimed, credits shall be duly given/made to the rightful owner.]
