Carry on

 Carry on

Ernest Hemingway once wrote the hardest lesson I have had to learn as an adult is the relentless need to keep on going no matter how broken I am from inside. 

Sad? But true. Life doesn’t stop when we meet a tragedy, it pushes us on, goads us to carry our burdens, to chip in when every bone in our body is feeling pain. It doesn’t care if we are shattered inside, it keeps moving unyielding and we have to keep pace with it. 

As children and even as adults, we read stories of hope, happy endings where everything falls into place but rarely it happens in real life. We get no time to pause and apply a soothing balm on our fractured soul. We put a brave facade and move on even if we are bleeding inside.

Am I trying to dampen your spirits? On the contrary I am saluting the human spirit that is indomitable. We fall, we go to pieces mentally, we cringe but then, rise like a phoenix. Magnificent, beautiful and resilient. Amidst the tragedy, we find our strength even we didn’t know we had. Reminds me of the indian king, Nahush who, despite being a human, was invited to rule the heaven and was then mercilessly insulted and sent back to earth. His words when he is cursed to go back to earth as a serpent? I am human, I’ll rise once again and I will touch the heights you gods can’t think of. 

As Robert Frost, another great poet said’ miles to before I sleep’. We cope, we move on, we conquer. That’s what human beings are.We stumble but we stand again. Even in the darkest of moments, we tell ourselves this too shall pass.

We all have our own way to deal with our lows. What is yours? Do write to me. 

Keep calm and carry on. 

Do be it !!!