That ride....
I'm sure we're all familiar with the feeling one gets when one is standing in the middle of an amusement park staring at people on the brink of throwing up after getting down from a ride which they had taken for a reason beyond any logic or reason to begin with. And then you see the next batch getting ready to go through the same ordeal with an ardency, which is quite endearing at times. I will take nothing away from those who beg to differ, by saying that they really had a ball on that ride.
May be this example lacked the quintessence that it should've had to describe the situation i'm trying to, in this very post of mine. The point i'm trying to drive home is that i've been a witness to one such disturbing ride in the past one year of my life. I've seen relationships, with - a beginning, a middle and an end, just like in case of a movie. In fact, it's frightening to see what this last one year has done to these people, and how it has changed them beyond recognition. I didn't take that ride myself, but i had to helplessly watch the ones i love, go through those endless ups and downs. Now that the ride is coming to an end, there's not much left to write home about anyways.
It shows what a span of a year can do to our lives. The ride is slowing down now, and has left the riders exhausted. Now they're filled with either resentment or repentance. But the year has gone by, taking away with it, everything it had brought along - trust, love and honesty.
And here i stand, smiling and wincing at the same time while watching a whole new crowd boarding the same ride with the same old remarkable brio and passion. I hope it's different for them; i hope it's better for them. I hope they never forget that nothing is worth ruining relationships, neither an illustrious career nor a luxurious life. Brace yourself, and hold on tight, to yourself and to each other and just remember what LEONARDO DICAPRIO kept saying in TITANIC- 'never let go'. Let the ride begin... Drink up me 'earties yo-ho..!
I'm sure we're all familiar with the feeling one gets when one is standing in the middle of an amusement park staring at people on the brink of throwing up after getting down from a ride which they had taken for a reason beyond any logic or reason to begin with. And then you see the next batch getting ready to go through the same ordeal with an ardency, which is quite endearing at times. I will take nothing away from those who beg to differ, by saying that they really had a ball on that ride.
May be this example lacked the quintessence that it should've had to describe the situation i'm trying to, in this very post of mine. The point i'm trying to drive home is that i've been a witness to one such disturbing ride in the past one year of my life. I've seen relationships, with - a beginning, a middle and an end, just like in case of a movie. In fact, it's frightening to see what this last one year has done to these people, and how it has changed them beyond recognition. I didn't take that ride myself, but i had to helplessly watch the ones i love, go through those endless ups and downs. Now that the ride is coming to an end, there's not much left to write home about anyways.
It shows what a span of a year can do to our lives. The ride is slowing down now, and has left the riders exhausted. Now they're filled with either resentment or repentance. But the year has gone by, taking away with it, everything it had brought along - trust, love and honesty.
And here i stand, smiling and wincing at the same time while watching a whole new crowd boarding the same ride with the same old remarkable brio and passion. I hope it's different for them; i hope it's better for them. I hope they never forget that nothing is worth ruining relationships, neither an illustrious career nor a luxurious life. Brace yourself, and hold on tight, to yourself and to each other and just remember what LEONARDO DICAPRIO kept saying in TITANIC- 'never let go'. Let the ride begin... Drink up me 'earties yo-ho..!
