Friday, February 15, 2008

When Grief Turns to Sadness

Every memory that encompasses the assumption of a dream can be snuffed out by a single moment. The rupture is not the eradication of the memories itself but the cumulative meaning of the dream. In as much as you fight the melancholy that haunts your soul, time nudges you to move towards loneliness. Towards a place wherein solitude is the only horizon that you can see. A wise man once said that this life is nothing but a journey. It is indeed true if you look at it with your back against the future and facing the place you came from. However, it is a matter of chance that what you see in front is the same place where you started. Easily unrecognizable but suprisingly a dissappointment, if not shocking. So much have been said about life's meaning and the virtues that should be led in fulfilling it. Only the cynical was given the right to protest the overflowing sentiments of hope.

However, hope itself is much like clinging to something nonetheless empty. That said, the spiritually enlightened turns to faith which is more tragic than the trusting of an empty promise. In as much as one intends to grapple between reality and fantasy, the hard truth and the metaphysical, when combined, presents itself as a place of uncomfortable limbo. Denying the physical reality forces a person to perform unnecessary acts. Neither, dismissing the metaphysical provides comfort since cynicism, at its ideal, is worst than absolute atheism. Therefore, how does one cope with the desperate feeling of losing a dream? A feeling that even enemies shouldnt be burdened with nor cursed with. It is presumed that nobody knows. To each, his or her own tribulations and challenges. To each, his or her own succcesses. To each, his or her own joy. After all, we are just matter, or a child, depending on what spectrum one is coming from.

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