An ode to a simple path

In an endeavor to simplify my complicated life, I had tried to follow a simple path.

I faltered as the path was not as simple as I had expected it to be, or as simple as the path proclaimed to be. One can call it expectation mismatch or whatever.

I kept falling down but I persevered. After every fall, I kept getting up and going. I tried my best to walk on it despite numerous falls that I had. The path was well trodden. But I was new to it. Despite licking the dust so many times, I could never ever become one with the path. All I had over my body were bruises. Some showed up, some didn't.

It was only a matter of time before I gave up. And give up did I, much to the chagrin of the path, the world, and my own self.

How strongly I had felt for that path, how much did I crave for walking down that path - only I know that. No one else can empathise with me.

Now, for the good of my life and all the other lives around me, I don't want to pursue that path (at least for the near foreseeable future). I don't want to simplify my life anymore. I would let my life be as complicated as it was, because I have realized that the more one tries to simplify it, the more complicated it becomes.

Happening Weeks

So many events have been happening all around me over the last 2 months.

With the sub-prime mortgage crisis of 2007 already having started to show its effect on the economy, which is getting slower by each passing day; skepticism and pessimism is widespread as the stock markets are tumbling down. A big old investment bank has been sold for almost 1% of what it was worth just 16 days ago.

From some aspect, it looks like troubled times as everyone is wary of the impact of a global economic recession. It sure is going to have an impact on their personal lives too. But what happens to those who are already having a lot of happenings on their personal fronts.

I just happened to observe two persons involved in a seemingly strong relationship, which was not that strong as it got broken off throwing the two persons poles apart. One person stood up sooner (much too sooner!), and took up the challenge of starting life afresh with third person.

The second person involved set off in another direction in order to confront life, but ended up being in the same location as the first person. Where would life take them all? What is in store for each one of them? All these and many more questions remain unanswered. But one thing they all need very badly is optimism – a feeling that the future holds all the goods that will be delivered to them in time. So here I am, raising a toast to all these brave folks who have a lot to see in their lives, and have to come out of it with flying colors….Cheers!