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| Life, History, and Reality |
I am supposed to be an optimistic person with a
motivation to lead my life, and a vision to stay in the present moment as it is
the only time we have. But, it is not always the case as visiting our past and
revisiting history for the sake of learning and finding how man builds and
destroys his individual or collective life. My visit to the past was somehow
unplanned, and it started with a movie that I had watched around twenty years
back. There was a favorite actor of mine in it, and he was one of the most dashing,
smart, and stylish actors of that time. I wonder if his looks and style are
still up to the present time fashion.
That’s how some people stay ahead of time and
can display something that is called the evergreen sort of thing. I had a flash
of memories associated not with that film but with the period, and the age when
I first watched it. The depressive issues, problems, and the vigor to conquer
the world in those youthful times were visualized again. Then I kept on
comparing my present time lifestyle, the issues, my mindset, and how I have
transformed.
In many cases, I am much more strong,
self-awareness and wisdom might be more. But the vigor, enthusiasm, and charm,
and attraction towards life are quite lessened. I was trying to find out the real
meaning of life right now. Why and how people are so much indulged in running
behind the material world, false emotions, fallacies, and fall from grace for
the sake of other mortal humans. Who left us long ago without giving a second
thought and value to our love, feelings, and emotions? What was the use of
trying to be in the hearts and minds of others when in the end others use us
for their pastimes, and for having a listener and compassionate person in their
tough times?
That’s how life is as an old film watched again
gave me food for thought and a whole track to rethink how and why we have
wasted so much time is useless things. At the current time, we are closer to
our deaths as the end seems to give me another direction, to work for a
collection of stuff that will be the real asset in the afterlife, not the one
for the purposeless investment into this mortal world. But, we have to pass the
remaining time in this world, as we have to learn, provide a better life for
people who are dependent on us, and to strive for a better lifestyle as I am
not twenty years younger as like the time of the movie that I watched.
It is a bit of a sad but interesting thing to
see that a young and handsome man as a hero in the film is also old, with
obesity and age has taken away his glory youthful charm. That’s how I resemble
the blooming flower and then it’s fading and falling away, petal by petal and
as a pale worn-out unwanted object. Ahhh! The strange facts of life are not
going to change for anyone.
Here, I would like to quote one of the most
beautiful novels that came in the last two decades. Arundhati Roy in her novel
“God of Small Things”. When she talked about the character Ammu, who was 31
years old, and she used the phrase “a dieable viable age”. This sentence still
haunts me with being closer to all viable to die at any moment. SO, it’s time
to prepare for the final destination, and to look and pray for the best things
that are promised by God Almighty in Paradise, and to work on it instead of
keeping grudges, hatred, jealousy, revenge, pessimism, and other useless
emotions in our hearts, minds, and souls anymore.
