When I was kid (I know, but bear with me) I use to think life will get better as I growup. Every stage I use to pray I get to the next phase of my life. When my parents fought I wished I started working and lived on my own, when I had a bad day in school I wished I was in college. When I was in college I told myself all I needed to get a job. It seemed my life was and is nothing but waiting for the next step. Now when I am working, I cant wait to leave it and go back to studying anything. I had an idea about myself, when i was in school, that one day someone would find me and pronounce I possessed some unique talent, that no IQ test ever could. I felt that there was something special about me and all I needed to do was be a little braver and that would happen as I get older.
But now, as I walk towards the middle of my life - between the prime and before midlife - I no longer look towards the next phase of my life. I am getting the feeling that this is as good or as easy as it gets. This is the prime of my life, everyone I know, everyone I love is alive and well. This is as good as it gets. I think the reason why kids are so happy, always smiling is because their life, their present is their dream world. Its the grown-ups who run away towards their dream worlds, comparing 'what is' to 'what could be'. But as kids we are happy with anything, everything is special even a cardboard box.
I was never born scared, or worried, I became. As a kid I was a dare devil, the kind that jumped into another baby's pram at 7 months and gave her a kiss. The kind that slapped a boy just because he stopped me from drawing on the board. That was me.
Life is not a straight line, nobody gets it right in the first go, you keep going back and fourth. We shouldn't compare our lives, to an idea of what it should be, because there is still more to come.
Dedicated to my classmate Anshul
But now, as I walk towards the middle of my life - between the prime and before midlife - I no longer look towards the next phase of my life. I am getting the feeling that this is as good or as easy as it gets. This is the prime of my life, everyone I know, everyone I love is alive and well. This is as good as it gets. I think the reason why kids are so happy, always smiling is because their life, their present is their dream world. Its the grown-ups who run away towards their dream worlds, comparing 'what is' to 'what could be'. But as kids we are happy with anything, everything is special even a cardboard box.
I was never born scared, or worried, I became. As a kid I was a dare devil, the kind that jumped into another baby's pram at 7 months and gave her a kiss. The kind that slapped a boy just because he stopped me from drawing on the board. That was me.
Life is not a straight line, nobody gets it right in the first go, you keep going back and fourth. We shouldn't compare our lives, to an idea of what it should be, because there is still more to come.
Dedicated to my classmate Anshul
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