Indeed. Life is how you live it? Roads are how you build it. Life gives you options? Cross roads give you choices. Living on the edge sometimes, picking up the pace accelerating, endless asphalt covered to end up where you belong. Life is an adventure. So is the road.
Open your eyes to the rising sun
Let the rays of sunshine illuminate what is to come
Schedules and chores what you pick and what you drop
Going on until the red light asks you to stop
We begin every day hoping that it will present us with something new, something different and hopefully something better than yesterday. It’s like someone said “We all make plans for the next day, because we all believe we will wake up to see the next day“. But do we take life for granted? Do we forget our mother’s smile when she waves us goodbye to school, yet find time to dwell on why someone didn’t like you back?. Our lives have become seas of negativity, we wash away the positive messages of love and hope carved on the sand, and we take back what has been dumped onto us, the misery of failure and misfortune. We carry away the toxicity and we bring it to other happier shores, doping the bliss with unhappiness. Is it worth it?After all the sea leaves behind the dust, as it slowly turns into vapor and rises towards the moving clouds into the clear blue sky.
forests, rivers, seas and valley
deserts and wastelands we must be wary
The scenes and sights, whatever it holds
does not obstruct the paths of the roads
So you just assumed everybody is going to be good to you? Because let me guess, you were one of those who believed that what you give is what you get. Although that line might’ve been fairly overused and look fancy on holy book covers, real life experiences tell a very different story. If I could rewrite any of those instances, I would change “What you give is what you get” to “What you give is what you are.” Because in the end people are people, good to them, bad to them, you can’t really change people for who they are. If you can convince yourself that you are the best version of what you can be, it could be reap happiness within you.
Life is a bed of roses, the good and bad locking horns
If you crave the fragrance you must also face the thorns
Can the monsoon rains fill you with joy and wonder
If you run away from lightening, can you handle the thunder?
As bad as it is, would life be really the same if you were only awarded with positive situations and there was absolutely nothing to worry or make you cry?. Have you ever tried playing a really hard game and then you finally after days,months or years of effort finally manage to finish it? The satisfaction you gain is unbelievable. But consider a totally different scenario. The same game, but you are allowed to cheat your way into the final level of the game. The game you would’ve taken you potentially years to complete, completed in a day. Yes you did get a taste of success. But at what cost? There might be cheat codes to success contrary to the popular belief “There are no shortcuts to success“, but there is no loophole to live the experience and learn the lessons it teaches you along the way to your success.
Few passengers whose company you yearned for on the roads
lose their roles as the story unfolds
Yet we ponder from our paths, to pursue the lost
ones who followed sacrificed, the detour came at a cost
We’ve already been through this. Like they say, “People become a habit“. How many of us can confidently say “Yes, I have maintained contact and a good relationship with all the friends I’ve made throughout my life!“. I don’t think there could be anyone who could achieve this ,what seems to be an impossible ground to conquer. It’s only natural. Some you hold onto, some you let go. The demons of natural selection are not abstinent from our social lives. Nobody is perfectly, or even perfectly good for you, but you choose the best of the lot. I am guilty of neglecting my strong friendships, the ones I have taken for granted when I busy trying to build a new one. It’s only when you lose what you have you realize it’s value. Yes, I do not disagree with all popular beliefs. Come on.
varying speeds, different ways, some silent some noisy
let them not define who you need to be
crossroads encounters, the crowded one may not be the right path
After all it isn’t your nature, but your choices that sets you apart
Yeah so you are a little more wider than your neighbor who’s staring at you like he wants to kill you because you’re hogging the whole seat on the bus. And the seat was meant for three and there’s two people. But still the other guy seems to be struggling to take a breath (Indeed, I’m the guy staring). Is it wrong to be different? Totally not. But is it important to realize you’re different? absolutely. Difference does not equate to weakness. I think lions are more afraid of Rhinos than giraffes. Differences are what makes you what you are. All books have pages. But it’s what you write in the pages that makes the difference right?. I would like to believe that quote was original.
Efforts and determination, working your way up the hill
To earn the much awaited feeling of success and thrill
they fear the untraveled path,lest from safety they may sway
yet the fruits of experience reaped, as the fearless explore anyway
Sun sets in the east, earth goes around the sun, but every step you take every day. It’s different from yesterday. Imagine if we repeated the same series of events in our lives every day, with no change in time or order. Change is the rule of life. Like someone said (I don’t remember his name I’m sorry okay?) The Cemetery is the only place devoid of change. Constant is only for the non-living. So experiment with life!
Every one travels the road, chasing self satisfaction waiting in queues
the journey goes on until the sun goes down, at every toll paying our dues
Some go on until their wheels wear out, some journeys cut short as comes the call
we all return home someday, believing we left an impression be it big or small
So there it is. The road you have to build, You maintain, and you travel. Choose the right path, and sometimes feel free to try out that unpopular road! after all what good is a road trip without a few bumps and sharp turns eh?
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