An image of a new born child evokes different responses from people, depending on their age and even possibly their gender. A Woman may point out the child’s cuteness. An elderly gentleman may, on the other hand, feel happy for the child, since he believes that, his life has just begun.
A ‘wonderful journey’, a ‘rollercoaster’ are among the euphuisms used to describe life by various thinkers and personalities. Life is indeed a journey, where arrivals and departures are equally important. As observed by Santh Kabir, “we enter this world kicking and screaming and bring joy to those we know, but we must leave in a way that we leave a smile on their faces.” While arrivals and departures are important, it is more important that which we do between are arrival and departure. Indeed, that is what vindicates our existence. Our ‘performance’ and ‘distance’ throughout this ‘road show’ is all that we have when we are in our final moments of existence.
Emotions, Experiences, Successes, Failures, Mistakes and Glories, are what this writer believes to be the contents of The Journey. One is sure to have an unequal amount of all of these things. One may feel happy or sad at the time of departure. But what is to be said to them? They must value and cherish what is about to leave them. There may never be an end; there may be another arrival after a departure on the Schedule List. I believe that the Soul is a passenger on board the Train of Life.
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