Life is unpredictable...
when babies are born their parents don't expect them to die before their themselves yet some of parents bare the loss of their own child while they are alive and it has to be one of the worst feelings in this whole world.
There are many cases where a child fights with their parents and leaves home to go outside and be alone or with friends and never return back ( example an accident happens) then the only regret one can carry is why didn't they speak nicely for one last time.
But if we knew what the future holded then that would be a whole another scenario....
we don't know the future we never will but we can control the present.
Hug your parents before you go out, express your gratitude and love towards your family and friends, go to that Manali trip you always wanted to go to, try that bungee jumping in Rishikesh do anything and everything that you have dreamed of because all we have is TODAY.
( pls don't do anything illegal) 😅
We get one life to live so why spend it by worrying about the future or being sad about the past?
There's a nice quote for it, "past is the place of lesson and learning, not a place of living."
Live today like there's no tomorrow.
It sounds scary that there might not be a tomorrow? But atleast you will have the satisfaction of fully living your life!!!
there are many cases where people on their death bed regretted not doing something they always wanted to do before they died. There are many people whose life ended without any experience...
If I have to talk about one such experience I would tell you about my grandmother.
She was a simple girl of a small village her dad was a farmer and until she got married at the age of 20 she lived in that small village.
After she got married to my grandfather she shifted to another village and there were only so many things one can do in villages? All her life she spent as a servant
first a servant to her maternal house and a servant to her husband and kids and if I think about her life I feel nothing but sadness that she never got to experience LIFE...
She was a housewife, she was qualified enough to be a teacher but orthodox society and my orthodox grandfather... didn't let her be.
My grandparents were from a lower middle class family they didn't have the luxuries, my grandma lost her first child which was a girl( my aunt ) when she was an infant. But everyone didn't grieve because she was a girl child.. so what try for another baby? Might get lucky with a boy this time... they said.
Then my mom was born. Luckily my grandfather really believed in educating my mom and she has many qualifications in academic field and was a topper in school too which kept my Grandfathers head high.
Then my maternal uncle was born and he wasn't good in school but did well in jobs and settled.
My grandmothers routine was to wake up cook and clean and cook again and clean again and sleep.
Imagine living this life for 40 years ?
I can't imagine it sounds like hell.
she died at the age of 60. Ik that's early she didn't have any disease or anything she was just done with life.
I was too small to understand but I understand now... her mental health killed her, the life she was living killed her the person she was living with killed her.
She was tortured physically and mentally first by my grandfather and then by my maternal uncle. She lived in hell.
My grandfather also suffered from physical torture by the hands of my maternal uncle and unfortunately I had to witness all this one week ago my birthday in Diwali vacation when I was at their home.
The childhood trauma affected me on many different levels and it still does.
What I want to convey in the end is don't be supressed by anyone ( I know we are gen z and no one can suppress us but still)
live your own life don't let your partner or your kids keep you bound in that Lakshman Rekha.
It's your life and you have the full right to live it....
my best wishes to you ❤️
