Life's every experience is not necessarily good, but if you look deeper, you will find great moments even in difficulty and adversity. These are the times when you have tried again after experiencing defeat a hundred times, when your mind has been full of despair and you prayed for a ray of hope, when you have lit a candle rather than curse the darkness, when you don’t compare yourself with others. It's like when, despite all the hurdles in your life, you try your level best.
And if you have done so, then these are the rare moments in your life when you have truly experienced being with yourself, and these moments make your life worth living and meaningful. When everyone around pushes you down, remember those who are close to your heart; they know how precious you are to them.
Sometimes I feel like asking what and how different my life will be in times to come. I am always curious to know how my life will move towards the unknown. What will be the defining moments in my share of this world? What will the people I meet in the future be like?
It gives me the enthusiasm only an artist can feel—holding a color palette and a brush, the freedom of a thousand possible images in their mind, and the canvas as blank as our future before their eyes. It is certain that at the end of my life, the canvas has to turn into "one picture," the canvas has to be filled with colors, and it’s wonderful and true that I have the freedom to choose the colors for my "painting of life."
But then doubt creeps in. If life is so full of possibilities, how come nothing great has happened in my life until now? Does it mean that life will continue in this routine structure with unrealized possibilities floating in my mind? Though circumstances might compel us to picture sadness and despair on the canvas of life, we still have the freedom to choose brighter colors for it. It feels great to see an artist whose mind, though engulfed in sadness, still decides to paint "joy" on their canvas!
Circumstances can only incite us to use dull colors for our "life's picture," but the only thing that matters is what we do with our blank canvas. We still have a long journey ahead, and those great moments which we never dreamed possible are just waiting to come our way. Let’s look up with a smile and spread our arms wide open to the "sky of possibilities," and embrace all the great moments, feelings, and joy coming our way. Let’s live life vivaciously.
