I wish they had warned me:
Of what it takes to live
And leave and yet live.
A thousand paradoxes, a hundred sighs of lament
All down the throat camouflaged by a smile.
A hushed tear here, a defeaning wail there.
A sense of foreboding, a fear of the known,
Of love decaying into musty diary pages
Of dried roses and fresh wounds.
Of little victories and greater losses
I wish I knew it all
I wasn't always who I am today. It took a lot of courage to break past my shell. Oscar Wilde had once stated that knowing what you want to be in life becomes a curse because you invariably become that but not knowing is liberating, there are endless possibilities of who you can become. I too didn't know who I was going to be. Today, I realise it was liberating. I never knew i could find my voice some day. Now that I feel liberated,it becomes difficult to remain confined. We need to grow, evolve into better beings each day. We need to grow past the "checks and balances" of life. I remember Fuller here, Fuller has asked us to be a part of a process of this evolving planet. He wants us to be "verbs" not "nouns"! Here is a tale of an introverted me who knew not what to expect from life . ....... I would talk less at school, not attend socialising events, avoid looking at stranger's eyes while on the road. In short, I wanted to be invisible to t...
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