Science calls it a Probability, the Believers call it a Miracle and The Verve calls it a Bittersweet Symphony. I am sure that you have your outlandish reasons for calling Life by whatever name you have chosen - all interesting ones at that too. But going by what I have come to experience of it so far, I can't conjure a better term to describe this fascinating journey of a few decades - CONTRADICTION.
It may not always hit you straight in the head but believe me, sooner or later, when it dawns upon you, the part of your brain controlling your emotions goes into overdrive only to be followed by a trail of thought best construed by that person in the mirror. One prime example of why I chose to describe life as a contradiction happens to be the radically opposite stages when we possess things that we wished for and the otherwise. Think of when you were a college going sophomore wishing to do away with the irrelevant education that you would be exposing yourself to. Rather you wanted to have access to all the worldly possessions and thought that working as adults do was a far more saner option. But hold your horses! Now that you have spent the last few years enslaving your thoughts and efforts to someone elses pocket, you wished that you were always a free bird that you once were...
To take things further along (and no I don't intend to rub it in), some years hence, you are a head honcho or the successful person you always wanted to be. You have what you always wanted as that young sophomore years back. But life being the contradiction it is, comes around a full circle. Those material obsessions now don't even give you the merest of quantum of enjoyment that they could have years ago. To make matters worse, where are all those people who could have made all this worthwhile. Yes you are what you wished for. But then why doesn't it give you that cherubic joy that you thought that it would.
Life is a contradiction!!!
What say???
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Mr. S.A - Quite aptly written. Life surely is a contradiction. I never thought of writing a blog of myself, on topics which I thought would never interest me, though now, it seems I just want to keep writing. And not for anyone else, but for myself, to find myself, to have my own space.
ReplyDeleteI am sure, Mr. S.A, you too, would have never thought that you would be writing a blog entry with your first post dedicated to a word called 'contradiction'.
Btw, welcome to the contradiction! Keep writing.