Call

A sudden incident to someone very close woke me up today.

Call: Change. Adapt. Learn. Live.

Change: Nothing is permanent and nothing will ever be. We gain some, we lose a lot, and sometimes it is the other way round. Sometimes we change and sometimes it is the things around us. Sometimes we like the change and sometimes we do not. I don’t know how spiritual or religious the reader is, but any kind of change – [if it is sudden all the more so] is a sign that God or a higher power has chosen to take the reigns of our life in their hands for that one moment, and asked us to move on to the next level.

Adapt: Courtesy – Ayan Da. “When Van Gogh first started out, his ten years of work got burnt. Van Gogh is still Van Gogh.”

Courtesy – Me. “You can never accelerate if you keep looking into the rear view mirror.”

Move on. There is no stopping to what has happened. The future will wait at your door only for a while and after a point that too, will get tired and move on. Yes! “Future” too, will Adapt. The quicker your recovery, the quicker the turnaround will be.

Despite all this, there is always something that “change” and “adapt” will leave behind. It is this:

Learn: Learn from your past. That is the only purpose memory has. It knows what to sift. It retains what you need.

Do you remember how ugly you looked when you got your pimples? Do you remember how bad your first menstrual was? Do you remember the silly joke that offended you? Do you remember if you started walking with your right foot out or left? I am presuming that your answer is “NO!”

The point is-your brains know what information you will need from yesterday for tomorrow. Learn from it. If you stress out your mind to remember inconsequential things then one day, that is all that your memory will have for you. Do the opposite and learn to …

Live: Live for the moment. Live for the day. Live for the second. Live for the people.

Don’t live to re live your past. Life is too short. Live for tomorrow. Expect something new. Appreciate what changed, adapt to what did not, learn from the errors and the triumphs, and know that live will never be the same again. Live a little!