Ups and Downs.

There are days when you wake up after crying into sleep whole night, and you don’t want to leave your bed, but the life moves on so you also need to run along with it. The sense of motivation becomes zero and your mind feels numb. Even the things which used to make you happy seem boring at that time. You feel to keep your words inside you, and you just gaze what is going in your surround while thinking of something else. Something more vulnerable has already happened and you have no one to share it with. So you cry from inside the whole day and tears find a way out when you are alone.

Everyone has faced this phase once in a while in their lives. And we know this phase will pass soon. But no one knows how long this goes on.

My Father once told me a story when I was nine. I was upset about something at that time, which I don’t recall now. So my Father came to me and told me a story, I love his stories. So the story was very short, and this is what the story was –

He said, “Once upon a time, in a city park there was an old man, who used to come and sit in the park every evening. One evening he saw two men sitting on two separate benches, one was very happy and looked prosperous, the other looked sad and depressed. After observing both the men for a while, the old man got to know that, the happy man was happy because he had just achieved something in his career and the sad man was upset because of losing someone. So he walked to the sad man and said something in his ear, and then he said the same to the other and came back to his bench. Now the sad man started smiling a bit and his soreness disappeared gradually, and the other man became tense and his grin became smaller.” I asked my father eagerly “What did the old man say to those men?”

My father smiled and asked me the same. But I couldn’t guess at all. Later he told me, that the old man said – “This time will pass soon.”

Later he concluded that, “You are just nine, you have a long journey to cover and there will be many disappointments in the future, but remember that time will pass soon. So, never be too sad about something neither too happy for something, live in the present and keep your future planned, you never know what will happen tomorrow.”

-         Akshat Atray