I am writing on this blog after a very long time and hopefully this time I will continue, a promise I keep breaking. Today I will talk about a story. To be fair, this story is not mine, I heard it somewhere else. The story is as follows:

There is a hole in a side of the boat. That hole is never going to be fixed and it's never going away and you cannot get a new boat, it's your boat. What you have to do is bail water out faster than it's coming in.

I have never heard a story that aptly described our lives' scenario better than this. The boat is our life and we can not change it and there is always be hole and we need to bail water until the very last day of our life. One may think doing this we can survive, and one is right. We do survive and that's the only way to do so. We think time will heal everything and we get used to the idea. We do, most of the times. However, there are somethings you cannot get used to. Some events that took place and changed your life altogether.

Time heals most of the things and that's why we wake up every morning to live another day. We live to die another day, as they say. Then again, some events, every once in a while, happen and we die inside but our body do not die with that. We never get used to them and time doesn't heal them. We just get used to the pain. Those pains are familiar to us and that's why we know how to deal with them. But that doesn't mean in any way those are healed, they are not.

Human beings have amazing quality. We survive and we die one day. Not every one of us gets to live. They don't get the only things they think they deserve. Without getting to live one full day, they have to die. That makes me ask a question, "What are really doing with our lives? Is the survival worth the pain? Is it really?"


Regards and Salaam,
Rahman