The calling.

Look back, now, before you leave,
See what is worth carrying along,
Take that and choose what you believe,
Now begin the journey you want.

Never to fall again and never to come back,
To fly without what you left behind.
Now overcome the things you lack,
Must you then reach the stars.

Now you know and you see,
That past calls you time and again,
It does the same, with you and with me,
But you must now choose to march on.

For you took what you needed
and abandoned the worthless.
You cried till your eyes bleeded,
And spent years in despair.

Do not fall back to the calling,
And neither must you cry again, my friend,
for the same reasons which had you falling,
And took away the person you were.


Maudita Singh.

Change.

Nothing ever remains the same. Change is one important wheel responsible to run the cart of life. Days change to nights, nights to days. Seasons change and so do people. Situations change and with them changes the way in which we think and act.

This changing course of life, they say, is highly necessary and inexorable. It is for our own betterment and makes us grow. If not for change, we would never have known the several hues of life.

But, my question is: Is all change for good?

There are many , many changes which do not make us happy, which leave us discontented. Some changes are irrevocable and all they do is break our heart and soul. These changes may make us loose a job we cherished, a whim never granted, a person we love. A change in the way a person behaves, change in how a person treats something, in particular or his own life, change in share market, change in the strength of currency or a mere change in weather. Many a times  these do not provide us with joy and may even rip us off it.

Change of heart and mind may end marriages, or a relationship equally valuable. Change in nature may affect these too. Change in thinking may cause great, great falls. Vicissitudes in business, in love, in life are not always for good, it seems. And thus, in situations like these, the fact that 'change is for good' appears to be nothing but a rhetoric statement.

What should we believe, then? Must we hold on or give up hope?

The answer is this: Changes runs lives. When a situation or a thing changes, it may, at first, become very difficult for us to let go of the old thing and let the new sink in. We may find ourselves in despair, praying that everything would go back to how it used to be. But with passage of time, as we grow used to that change, we realize that it did but bring good. Even, we may realize, a little later, that this change was all we needed in our life. That somewhere, somehow it was all to make us jovial.

Change brings exaltation.

It is, hence, indeed a statement to make us cling to hope in the moments of discomfort and make us believe that one day we will find solace. And, I say, making my speculations, we should believe this. For little do we know, what great things might this change bring for us.

Maudita Singh.