So Sudden

 These two words are exactly the words that can sum up all my thoughts in the recent past. I fell down so suddenly and I got up so suddenly, I loved so suddenly and made plans so suddenly, I made mistakes so suddenly and learned so suddenly, and suddenly I realized I am not that little girl any more. Life gave me so many sweet and sour lemons and suddenly so much time has passed by, so much time that I am left speechless…

EMBRACE  THE  RUSH 

   After years an invitation to a family function of my closest relatives had arrived at my doorstep. I was more than happy. Finally a get together where I’ll get to catch up with every lovely cousin of mine, I’ll get to meet my blessed grandparents, I’ll get to shop for saares, lehengas and jewelries with my mom and aunts, I’ll get a taste of amazing desi food and I’ll get to make fun of everyone without anyone being offended. Finally a function, a reunion where everyone feels so loved and so cared.

My excitement level was unimaginable as the day to meet everyone had finally arrived. I and my mother entered the main door of my aunt’s house where we were going to stay and were welcomed by this huge roar of happiness awaiting us. All my aunts, uncles, little siblings and my grandparents gave us this overwhelming welcome just like I had imagined.

After all the catching up I was suddenly quiet, I kept quiet and observed. Everyone around me was planning for the upcoming function, talking non-stop, shunning the kids, rehearsing the function layout and discussing important things when I glanced towards my little siblings and realized they weren’t little anymore. There used to be a time when they were just babies and now suddenly they are all grown up making me think and forcing me to have a flash back. I was oblivious to the fact along with them I had grown too.

I felt a rush inside of me, a rush that shouted out that quite some time had passed by. I then felt like grabbing every second of every day  because that mattered so much now, now that I realized that every second passed had gone into a place which could be kept alive only in the form of memory. I suddenly felt so alive, so in the moment and so liberated as I got a huge and very much needed wake-up call. It made me realize I have so many dreams to fulfill, so many places to explore, so much of laughter to spread, so many hearts to win, so many people to love, so many people to get inspired from, so many people to inspire and so much of wisdom to acquire. These thoughts rang in my mind throughout the function and I was so grateful about it. I wouldn’t have realized it otherwise and I felt so blessed. I made the most of that day and I can’t think of any other way in which I could have enjoyed that reunion.

Life according to me moves at the speed of light; it comes by you and leaves you so fast making you wonder when did the time go by. Make each and every second count, live in the moment, don’t waste time pondering around predicting the future and don’t waste time regretting over past and long lost opportunities, because the present is what you must life for and live in.

These are the things told to all of you by so many, but yet why do you tend to ignore it? It’s better to awaken yourself before it’s too late, life is too short if you procrastinate your decisions and live for tomorrow, life is perfectly apt if you live for today. So wake up and live, because that’s your only job and you better do it like a boss.