Someone’s view on life, translated…
Life is like, that long train ride, you can’t know who you’ll bump into at the next stop, what will happen. Some people would alight the same trains, some would, miss it, some would sit in seats not theirs, or even, taken up the seat that you’d expected to take. Every station, there would be those, getting on and off, or those transferring to and from, some, once gotten off, are gone from you forever. And maybe, you think, that you’re, the controller of your own destiny, but, that ticket that you have in your hand only marked the starting point and not the end of your journey.
not my sketch…
Awhile ago, I’d gone to a funeral of a former college classmate, he’d left so abruptly, not leaving any words behind, without the chance of goodbyes either. With the coming of age, there was, an increase in these occasions, and, I’d often wondered, that if I fell asleep tonight and never wake up again, would I have, any regrets? From birth to the grave, people passed through the trials, the trying times, why, are we all really here? The answers should be, hidden on the way: here, you will meet members of your family, your classmates, your teachers and professors, your friends, your coworkers, as well as, strangers too…………bumping into all of them, made your life complete, and, with ANY piece missing, it wouldn’t be, your life; at the same time and space, you too, play an important role, in someone else’s journey in life too.
The movie, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” used the strange plot, to describe the moments of meeting in life. The main character, Benjamin Button carried the looks of an eighty year-old man when he was born, his mother died in childbirth, his father abandoned him at a nursing home; the elders around Benjamin Button died one by one, but he grew younger by the day, and since, in his “childhood days”, he’d dealt with the loss of his own loved ones constantly. At age eleven, he’d met Daisy, and, even after midlife, their love became something, they had a child together, but, he’d started, worrying that he couldn’t, provide a normal family for his own young, he’d sold everything he owned, left everything to his wife and child, and left home. At age sixty, Benjamin had come to Daisy’s ballet studio, being handsome and young, he’d not dared, identify himself as his daughter’s father. In the end, Benjamin became so old, that on the surface, he’d turned, into a child, Daisy went to visit and care for him too. At age eighty-five, he’d turned, back into an infant, and died peacefully, in the arms of the woman he loved.
the cycle of life…
Losing love will make us realize the importance of the people around us, that, was the first theme of the story. The second, was the discussion of fate. A car wreck had, ended Daisy’s career as a prima ballerina, and, in his diaries, Benjamin imagined what had happened: from the cabdriver’s stopping to get a cup of coffee, to the end of Daisy’s rehearsals, because her friend had a torn shoelace, she’d, left a minute late……and, when any one of these factors had been altered, her life would turn out completely different; but, from the views of the unknown, this car wreck seemed inevitable, and, it’d introduced the first HUGE theme: it’s only natural, that we lose what we loved.
Counting up all the instances in life, and realizing, that they’re all connected, by a series of serendipity, and moments amiss. The coincidences felt like destiny, but, you couldn’t, look and examine it beforehand—maybe, that, is why this story is so, intriguing to us, just remember, to enjoy all the moments that you meet up with someone. That moment in time, IS, eternal!
So, this, is still on the importance of cherishing what is in the now, and NOT worry about what will happen in the future, because, you don’t KNOW what’s going to happen, you may be here one second, and gone, the very next, and so, it is, important, that we live only, for today, and not worry about tomorrow!
Life, the Obstacle Course 