“It hurts now, but it’ll be okay later.” That’s what everyone says after you’ve had a hard time. And I oblige with it, like completely. I mean that’s why we have a population of able bodied humans among us.
But the thing is, they do not emphasize how worse it would still get. Or how long you have to live in it. Their’s nothing to google for it, and no single person has the solution, just that they know that it would pass and things would again be fine. But does it ever?
Or do we just learn to live with it, pushing the sensations into a corner, only for them to come back again one day, and haunt us. Maybe these setbacks are temporary and last only for a short while, but it is then that we are face to face with reality. And reality is never fair for us dreamers, those that wish to go against the general norms and find something that speaks to us like family.
So we stroll on, forever, in search for the things that fight for the same agenda as that of our dreams, and we get hurt too. But what should we do then!
They say don’t you ever give up
when the stars don’t show
and we are left with an empty sky of
overshadowed dreams.
They say fight back
for the moonlight that we all crave
but only night could live in its glow
when the sky is not dark
and darkness is all you want.
They say take a hit, and smile
for they are the greatest of all,
they teach you, and never taunt,
they fight for you and never flaunt.
Maybe you would break, maybe your hope would crumble,
but stroll on into the empty night
and the blissful sky,
for mistakes are never wrong,
just not the right answer,
and every new adventure takes you close
to somewhere that’s closer.
Learning is fine, not repeating the same mistake is fine too, but why do we need scars? Don’t they just ruin everything when you are on a venture to becoming close to the ‘perfect you’!
But what is the perfection that we want for ourselves? Beauty? We all have it. Knowledge? That depends on how broad we take our horizons. Wealth? Naah. Happiness maybe? Somewhat, but not exactly!
Then what would be perfection, you ask! It’s living your journey.
Every person is different, how they think, how they work, what they love, and how the starts sparkle for them, it’s all vibrant and unpredictable. And so, everyone has their own journey to take. We don’t need perfection in other’s eyes, it’s always how we see ourselves. And if I accept today that I am, then that’s where all my desires and wishes led me to.
In order to heal people of their pain
we need to have scars of our own,
those that remind us where we went wrong.
In order to heal other’s wounds,
we need to know
what it is to be wounded.
I may be in pain everyday,
maybe everyday is a new war
that I must overcome,
but I’m surrounded by the stars
that didn’t give in,
even to time and space
and have met me
in my own little decree.
Scars heal only for those
who smile for the way their life shines
and that heals me a little, every time.