Darkness and Sunshine

Life is not all about sunshine and happiness...it’s also about the darkness and sorrow.

It’s about being with people who mock at your dreams...taunting that you can’t do what you really want to do.

It’s about friends who can be worse than enemies...hitting exactly where they know it will hurt the most.

It’s also about being cheated...in a way you never expected.

It’s also about being left alone in a vast desert...where all you can see in every direction is the sinking sand and the blazing sun....

It’s about being humiliated for a petty mistake you made unintentionally, it being magnified to an extent too far.

It’s about being punished for a wrong you did not even commit.

It’s about being asked to prove your mettle to the people who believed in you...the ones who grew up with you....in age and in life.

It’s about fighting with darkness for so long that you slowly start losing hope of light.

It’s about your nursing your heart which has been broken into a thousand pieces and tossed along mercilessly...

It’s about bearing the pain of picking up those broken pieces and trying to make a whole again.

It’s about those long, seemingly endless, hours of fear and pain.

It’s about trying to forget the wounds inflicted...when they keep reappearing time and again.

It’s about being madly in love with a person and knowing that they cannot be yours.

It’s about the burning sensation that comes when you have to talk to them almost every day...coz there is no way you can avoid it.

It’s about realizing that love does not always receive love...and that this too is a way of life

It’s about understanding the fact that it takes a lot to be lucky in love.

It’s about seeing a group of young jolly people laughing and enjoying...and thinking when was the last time you felt so.

It’s about the tears which stay hidden in those eyes and behind those smiles, to avoid being misunderstood or ridiculed by the world.

It’s about them rolling down unconsciously and unstoppably when you are alone in the dead of the night.

It’s about feeling lost and not knowing where to ask for the right path.

It’s about feeling the sands of time slip through your hands when you try to hold tightly on to it...

It’s about seeing a part of your cherished dream die every day...right in front of your eyes...

It’s about knowing that there are things about which you can’t do much...

It’s about dying a slow death...everyday...and still not dying.

But then...

It’s about believing in your dreams even if nobody else does.

And to keep at them with faith and try to do all that you can.

It’s about bearing up with everyone who does not believe in you and

Seize a chance from life to prove that you are what you want to be.

It’s about picking the broken shards and nursing your heart back to life.

It’s about becoming stronger at will and softer at heart together.

It’s about finding affection in other forms...like a new-born’s smile and a kid's hug.

It’s about learning to believe that time is the best healer.

It’s about going out of one's way and making someone else smile...and feeling satisfied.

It’s about doing something for someone who cannot repay you back in money.

It’s about trying every time after you fall. May be a little break and some rest.

And thus carve a new path. It's understanding that there are no readymade guidelines.

It’s about praying deeply to the Almighty above.

It’s about believing that there is someone looking over you…and after you.

It’s about the small streak of light behind those dark clouds...however far it may be.

It’s about living with a hope alive in your heart...however small it may be.

P.S.: The above is a work of pure fiction and any resemblance to real situations is purely co-incidental :)