Still breathing- by choice ( Dilsha XI A)
To be or not to be is the question of the century, to which you have no choice but to choose. Everything can’t be answered by using the Indian headshake. For those of you who doesn’t know what an Indian headshake means- it sometimes means yes, sometimes no, sometimes neither and sometimes both.
To choose life over death is the bravest thing to do but what about those who won’t choose either. They are the living dead. Not engrossed in life’s mischievous ways yet still there somewhere- alive. To be stuck in the middle of nothingness is like being a bat, neither mammal nor a bird- Neither living nor dead.
Have you witnessed an animal suicide? I haven’t. A fish can never drown. So why we homo-sapiens have the tendencies to do it as the population of China. To live or not to cannot to be the only choices. The others are just under the process of being discovered by humans like me and you, who would like to change the definition of living.
The day when you just give up is day you start to be a living dead. The world wouldn’t stop spinning, the sky won’t fall down, the dogs won’t meow and cats won’t bark. Still they refuse to step out and face the world.
Will being a mute solve all the problems in your life? Just like when you give zero values to all variables in an equation to have the simplest answer as zero- mathematically speaking. Maybe giving zero value to things in life will make your life as a living dead more complete. Don’t be tamed to people’s expectations. Maybe then you will be able to see the infinite numbers other than zeros to put in your equation of life. Trust me; the answers will be surprisingly much simpler.
I’ve never made New Year resolutions in my life until the December of 2015. It’s the December of 2016 and now I know why I didn’t make any resolutions before. I didn’t even care to start those resolutions. Looking back this year, that’s my only regret.
Unlike me, there are people out there who make resolutions every year and sticks to them. I haven’t met such a person yet but I like to keep my hopes up. There’s no harm in hoping for good things to happen. It’s not going to melt the ice in Antarctica. But hoping for Tom to eat Jerry is no good. I’ve tried it.
I’m not making any resolution this year. Not even a resolution to finish old resolutions. Well you will never have a perfect year and there will always be another New Year as restart button in your life. According to me anyway.
No fake smiles, no goodbyes, no last minute sentimental speeches, just a ‘thank you’ for adding another year of memories to my life. My only wish is that no matter how long I will live, I want to die satisfied that I lived at least one day, to the fullest. I might not be an 80-year old in her death bed counting down her last days, I might not be diagnosed with cancer or any Ebola- I’m only human and I know staying happy all your life is a luxury I can’t afford.
So I hope, love anything and everything, not make any promises I can’t keep, feel the rhythm of the universe and just breathe.
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