Hi again! Well I know I've been outta sight for quite a while. Well it's just that so many things have been happening lately that I don't have the time to stop and think. Just last week my grandpa landed up in Singapore. Along with him came a whole load of stuff I left back in Chennai. My grandma has decided to send them in instalments I guess.
When I was first coming to Singapore my grandma was initially reluctant to let me take all my things. I think it's because I spent most of my life with them. When we get attached to some one it becomes difficult for us to leave them.
For people to understand each other and get along it takes years. But at the same time, it also takes equal amount of time to forget some one. It's not so easy to accept the fact that some one has to finally leave. At every stage in our life we get attached to some one or something. That in our life holds centre stage. But when we see some things slipping away from our hand we feel insecure. We don't know what to do.
Life is like that. People are meant to come and go. Not all of them stay in our life. But those who make a difference to it are those we find hard to leave. Life is built on compromises and we all have to live it in order to accomodate what lies in store for us. No one can change what happens. Not even fate.
Accepting and going on in life is the key to existence. But all of us are not comfortable in doing that. I know that you might feel that am just repeating my self endlessly but that's how life is- it constitutes relationships in which we are bound in inevitably. What works and what doesn't doesn't lie in our hands.
The same way even my grandparents let me go. After all how long can we stay under the wings of our elders. We need to step out of a protected life in order to experience the different facets of life. And that's one of the reasons why we all need to break familiar grounds and explore new ones.
Well how I move away from what I really want to say. Everybody deviates from the topic they mean to expound on. Now look at me I mentioned the fact that my grandpa is in town. When am supposed to be happy I sit and speak philosphy.
Luckily the weather in Singapore has been good and my grandpa is thoroughly enjoying the short trips we have around major historical centres and places. Today we took the ducktour. The ducktour concept resembles the one I went for in Australia in 2000.
What makes this trip so special is that the vehicle takes us on land and in water. With Diwali and Hari Raya celebrations bidding good bye Singapore gears up for Christmas. I can already see decorations been put up. What I can't believe is how fast time flies. It was just like yesterday I finished my postgraduation in April and already the year is coming to the end. The next year 2006 seems just around the corner.
Like P.B. Shelley said in his poem "Ode to the Westwind"
The trumpet of a prophecy! O, Wind,
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?"
People also come and go like seasons. But the similarity between both is both can either leave us in agony, pain or happiness. It depends on how we want to view the situation. Right now I feel that when we can derive pure happiness from the present moment, then why ruin it by thinking about the future.
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