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Ordinary feelings in life!

By Rebecca Ursani

People say life is only lived once so make the most out of it without any stress or depression taking over you. But then a life without sadness is like a story book without a plot twist. Why it that all the pleasures in our life are taken for is granted and the miseries are given more importance, though, neither of them last forever.
One does not need to be much observant to examine the life which is divided into several chapters and sub divided into the main sections, happiness, despair, struggles and success. It is felt that out of all the four sections only happiness lasts for a short period, the success lasts forever while the other two stay for a quite good time. Feelings and emotions are the two that demand the control over us but it depends upon us whether we let our feelings rule our heart and mind or we keep our emotions under control in order to live a balanced life. There are possibilities that history of life repeats itself but the exact moments cannot be relived. Hence, the only bad thing about life is that we cannot undo our regrets, we cannot rewind the moments we had cherished once or so.
 Feelings and emotions are often misunderstood. They are thought to be the same. Feelings are the ones that you experience on daily basis towards anything you experience and emotions are born when something unusual happens unlike the daily routine. So, there are different emotions and different feelings on every stage of life. When you are in despair or you fail from giving whatever best, you think all the curses are counted in your fate and that you just want to discontinue your life. Suddenly everything turns out to be odd and eerie to you and that is just it but that is not. Prior to that, when you are happy, everything seems to be in your favor, the world seems colorful, you enjoy even the baby’s annoying cry and you think your life on wards will be easier. However, if we think sensibly, these two do not play their roles in our life for a longer time. They are just temporary.

 As life is unpredictable, people in our life are also confused. The one who suffers from a very deep grief only knows how it is like to suffer from that situation rather than the one who sympathizes them. Like when death occurs of someone very close to a man, the other people console him not to cry for that will only hurt the departed soul. How do they expect that man not to sob over his closed one’s death and weep when they experience the same situation! How do they comfort when you lose your something very valuable and tell you that you will get another the next time! When you are extremely joyous, people wish you luck but inside they are envious, they wish the same for them that you have already and why is it that when you are planning for your good future they come and tell you they are with you but on your back they wish to be your competent and leave you behind. It is not about the people being so deceiving and cruel, it is about the life that has involved so many people and tying so many relationships with them that you are bound to celebrate and share your life with them.
 Human desires for happiness for his entire life but it is in the human nature that it cannot maintain its interest over one thing for an extended period. As a matter of fact, a book can be read twice or thrice or a movie can be watched more than thrice but at some point humans get bored watching or reading the same thing again and again. Likewise, a point comes in life, sooner or later, that the human loses interest of happiness too. He prefers isolation at times, stays quiet at social gatherings and intentionally wants to become a pessimist.

There is no life without both the thrill and depression together is incomplete because they walk shoulder to shoulder as the footsteps walk side by side.