The journey called Life

When you are seriously looking for answers you will get it in some sign or other. When I was younger I used to pick up a book usually the Gita or the Bible and randomly flip open a page and mostly what I read in that page gave me an answer to my question. As I grew older I started finding answers in different places. Saw 2 movies recently which were a juxtaposition of emotions running through me lately, being shown on screen.

'Letters to Juliet' and 'Eat, Pray ,Love'. While the first movie was about a belief that true love never dies and love knows no time, the second was about the journey one goes through to find who you are and what life means to you. So in a way, both the movies are about a quest for different things. (or maybe the same depending on the protagonists life).

Now, being the protagonist in the movie of my life, what do I want? And what do I do if I am attracted to forces which are opposite in nature? Both these movies acted like a mirror and reflected exactly whats been on my mind. It made me see myself more clearly than I have been able to in sometime. Love deserves one more chance. There has been many days and nights when I have thought had I not faced the music 6 years back would I still be the person I am today. That is something I never would know. What I do know is that I am glad that I was bold enough to stand for the person  I loved as I definitely would not want to be a 70 year old woman driving across the country with my grandson in search of someone I had once left behind waiting..

Having said this, does that mean that my journey is over? Or had it just begun? Did I know at that time that I would one day actually want to take a journey which may include someone waiting. That is something I have to answer.

The second movie had a dialogue which said when you are in a quest to find the truth and if you believe that every person you meet on your journey and everything that you do in that journey will lead you to it, then one day you will find the answers. I would like to believe that my journey had already begun and each event,person,place that has occured till date since then has led me closer to what I am seeking for.

We all have to go through a journey at some point in some life. The question is if the time comes, then will be ready to put everything at stake to go for it? If we are ready for it then how difficult it is to break the shackles and do what you are meant to do. For those who have done so, maybe the calling was so strong that they are actually ready to give up on everything to follow that one dream. How I envy them! And How I wish that someday I am strong enough to do so and so are all others who want to do so. Well, cheers to that!