Inspired

Take a moment, clear your mind, think of nothing but life and its fragility. Forget work, forget school, college and university. Remember those small moments when you felt happiness captured in a fraction of a second. What do you remember? Laughter with friends and family, that moment when a loved one said something and it made you burst out with laughter, made your soul sour high. It is said “happiness does not last”, too many that may seem as if life will be fraught with pain and tears and indeed it is. But dear child if happiness does not last then neither can sadness.

We humans are smart, sometimes too much so and to our own detriment. We complain moan, long, lust and desire for too many things. If for but one moment we can detach ourselves from such restraints life will surely be better. Become enlightened. They say ignorance is bliss too, with time comes knowledge truly innocence and lack of knowledge would prevent heart breaks and pain.

But why do we linger over our misery, our heartache? Life is too short such trivialities. We must seize the day and make it happy. Life only happens once. No one knows for sure what lies beyond. This world is full of unbelievable beauty; its magnificence goes beyond our comprehension. 

Free yourself from the constraints of everyday life, from pain. Leave your possessions behind, travel the world with nothing but the clothes on your back; strip yourself bare. Become free. When we learn to free ourselves from the prison bars of life, money, material objects, pain then and only then will we truly be free.

“...We look before and after

And pine for what is not

Our sincerest laughter

With some pain is fraught

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought

Yet, if we could scorn

Hate and pride and fear,

If we were things born

Not to shed a tear,

I know not how thy joy we ever should come near...”

~To A Skylark, Shelley~