𝗟𝗜𝗙𝗘'𝗦 𝗝𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗡𝗘𝗬: 𝗘𝗠𝗕𝗥𝗔𝗖𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗣𝗔𝗜𝗡 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗚

Today in the examination hall, I asked myself a little question: "What is life?" As simple as it might seem, the answer to this question is way deeper, complicated and debatable. This little question didn't remain little once my brain started pondering over all possible answers. 

Now, while I thought and thought and thought, I just realized how all the different philosophies and quotes that I had ever read started to unsettle me. Honestly, none of them made any sense to me. Finally, it hit me that I had been lost, not today, but since the day this question popped up and my mind began to search for an appropriate answer.

So, yes, I have been waiting to find an answer to this question, which may or may not resonate with any one of you. However, it should soothe the chaos going on inside my mind. I am looking for an answer that makes it possible for me to convince myself that this is what life truly is. 

I am 100% sure that this would make my life journey a lot more meaningful, sooner or later. I would lead myself to the road of acceptance—accepting what it means to live and what is hidden in this process of living—so that I don't miss the real joy of living. I don't want to look back and regret that I just managed to survive and forgot that life was all about LIVING.

The answer that pops up—or, I should rather say, is jumping in my wandering mind—is "Life is a blend of PAIN & HEALING." Pain is unavoidable, and healing is inevitable. Be a little patient until I explain this to you more precisely and deeply (with the help of an example). 

Suppose you get an injury, and you cannot stop the pain that follows, no matter how many painkillers you take. But the pain will eventually fade away too, at its own pace. Pain comes, it stays for a while, and eventually, it departs. You cannot force the pain to stay a little longer than it tends to, which leads us to the fact that healing is also inevitable. 

As much as pain brings suffering, healing brings power and hope for our own growth. We conclude that life is neither solely defined by hardships or battles against fears, nor is it merely about searching for hope or survival. Rather, it's all about learning the art of patience by trusting the process of pain & healing. Remember, where there is pain, healing is sure to follow, signifying that life is composed of both sunsets and sunrises.

𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗕𝗜𝗡𝗗𝗦 𝗔 𝗥𝗘𝗟𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗣?

Love? Physical intimacy? Sacred vows? Looks? Like-mindedness? Late-night video calls? Long conversations? Regular Dates? Understanding? Loyalty? Honesty? Trust?

Exactly what keeps a person hooked to another? If you ask me, I have no firm answer to this question. The possible reason wandering in my head that helps to sustain a bond is the firmness or the ardent will of two people who promise to choose their relationship over every rough moment. 

They make up their minds that no matter what may come, they'll stand by each other's side till their last breath and not even for a day stop putting in efforts—not necessarily towards each other but more importantly towards the relationship they share. They neither lose the needed strength nor the hope to carry forward the existing relationship with the exact same person every single day.

So, I think it's basically the power of not letting go of the relationship at any cost that ties two people together. That’s precisely how they get the energy to restart their relationship from the beginning after every freaking fight. The mastery of the courage to provide total acceptance of each other's flaws acts as a cherry on the cake. And not to forget, patience is always the key.