True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings;
Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.
-William Shakespeare.
Life is not always a soft blowing breeze, bringing in the smell of the roses from the east; it is not always a bright day with a beautiful rainbow flowing into a river; it is not always what is expected from it. It can push one into a room of darkness, where what you had actually pressumed as happiness, was the disguised bleeding face of sadness.
But a person seeing a half glass full would say:
Life is not always a tormenting storm bringing in the swords of destruction; it is not always a dark moonless night with the cricket weeping at the sound of melancholy; it is not always what we see it as. It can dance us into a lush green lawn with butterflies and an early orange stroke of dawn.
What makes an optimist think and a pessimist weep is HOPE.
As time passes by, at some point or the other, we see life very closely. Every minute detail of life comes infront of our eyes in a flash. All the good and all the bad; all the genuine and all the fake. So many colors at one go, dazzle us and all we see is black. We close our eyes to everything and want the colors to disappear right then- but then as we pick up courage and slowly open our eyes, the psychedelic range of colors appear beautiful. That is when an optimist is born.
But when we are too scared to open our eyes to life again, scared of the pain, scared of the agony, we see just black and the pessimist in us gives our soul a sinister smile.
Fear and hope fight with each other everyday. Fear wants to set free the cold and the lonely; hope wants to set YOU free.
Hope taught me how to live life without the fear of a hopeless situation.
Because in every situation of life, there are loads of colors.
Fallen and broken? Pick yourself up, smile and march right ahead, at the horizon there's just harmony.
Lost and dejected? Find yourself within you, in your deepest, there's just love.
Life is beautiful. Breathe it in and get high.
Queen of Blah signing off. :)
