Because I have known despair, I value hope

I take life as it comes, and although I grumble a great deal with mum and refuse to eat my mashed supper, I find that taking life as it comes is the only way to meet it. It isn't a very satisfactory way, but it is the only way. A ne'er-do-well never wins.

I was given a one-way ticket to this world but we could have got the life of a vermin- a mere bug being crushed under the feet or not having enough intellect to enjoy the sun poking its adorable head from behind a cloud…the star-studded clear blue night sky… or the grand sound of the thunder and with it the soul waking up or watch the iridescent play of colours of the rainbow.

Whatever preys on your mind but never give up! People tend to complicate their own lives as if living wasn't complicated enough! Wild optimism will always keep you afloat, that's how life works.

Life can be upsetting and quite difficult at times. It can just drain all your energy without giving any handrail to hold. While no one ever promised that life would be easy, many of us were often unprepared for just how hard things could get. When we suffer getting through the tough times in life, it can seem like something we won’t ever be able to achieve stability … How are we supposed to overcome and handle life’s many storms?

Dig in your heels and get a handle on some of your wilder behaviour.

"Zendagi migzara"...life goes on. A person can do a lot of things when his life is at stake rather than getting swallowed into the black hole of nothingness.

When I was born there were astrologers prophesying misfortune, forewarned trouble to my health and alerted of terrible disasters about to come which none of my parents in their senses wanted to know but the inevitable transpired in due time.

‘No,’ I told myself. ‘That’s just too weird.’ when my series of surgeries didn't stop, my father perished or we faced shocking poverty.

We can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are supportable, once the limit is crossed, the only way to bear the unbearable is with laughter. What is laughter? Every situation offers an opportunity for a laugh, giggle, chuckle. It is a great wonder the world which is so large can seem so frightfully charming, albeit damn fascinating, everything about the universe is magic!

Inception to entropy

We are part of the cosmos

And cosmos in us

We are the stardust

One lifetime is not enough to cherish the various mysteries of the cosmos of which we are a precious and significant part…

Living in a lousy cramped house I faced many acts of kindness,  many acts of madness but didn't flop down to the bottom. Itching or scratching diseases have solid attention of the government and the public but in my case, many vociferous suggestions, whispering advice came to me disapproving my smiling visage. They mistook and forego using their or her own brain in favour of trusting someone else’s dubious opinion, applying logic to otherwise illogical situations.

The mysteries of the human soul can josh you, annoy you but you learn to start living instead of merely existing. With a cruel effort of will heave, yourself up to "don't be chicken-hearted", "don't scare easily" situation. Life is what you make of it. It's always when you think you have enough determination victory is yours. Thinking " Alone, alone, alone terribly alone" is not fruitful because God has made you presumably with some good end in mind and is watching over you. There's no turning back. ‎"Selume Proferre"- towards the light, as you live you learn… under the whims of fortune, the wreckage of your life will be refurbished in time.

 Change is sometimes necessary, it puts focus on life infusing it with creativity with the inflow of fabulous ideas, reaching the fullest flower of intelligence, personality and pluck. Then life feels like heaven when you put a stop to your expectations. The problem is, it becomes hell when there's no hope, but I am addicted to hope and hope sustains me. Hopaholic is my other name.

When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness, theft was the one unforgivable sin, killing is an irreversible, irretrievable, unpardonable sin even if it happens to be your own life. When you don't have the power to create life you don't have the right to take one.

Jaded sky smiles wanly

Moon floating with the clouds

Hope stands tiptoe kissing sky

--Payel Bhattacharya

The recent pandemic has brought a lot of anxiety and uncertainty in our everyday lives and feels like life has thrown a punch at us but we have the power to make our lives turn around because there’s still so much more to accomplish, and success beyond your wildest dreams. Finding the love of God, understanding the power of God delighted me; although I need a stick to walk I could see in my mind’s eye I am on top of the world with my mother dancing to the tune of ‘ The Carpenters’…

Such a feelin’s comin’ over me
There is wonder in ‘most everything I see
Not a cloud in the sky, got the sun in my eyes
And I won’t be surprised if it’s a dream