"Go further to get closer" - The British Airways India Ad is going viral these days. A lot has been said about the emotional cords this ad strikes..a lot about relationships..love..care...happiness...
On that note, let me go a little further on the same emotions.
Sometimes...we are lucky enough to have our loved ones with us. Life becomes a festivity.
The story starts with "They lived happily ever after". And then it continues to minor drifts to major conflicts and then reduces to a mere fateful co-existence. The one time endless coffee shop discussions gets limited to basic dinner table conversations. Sharing thoughts, events, emotions gets renamed as intrusion of privacy. We do not cease to love. We cease to communicate. We take the other person for granted. And even worse. we take time for granted. We assume that time will wait. It will come..some other day..when I can still hold hands and walk...when I can still laugh with you..when I can still take you in my arms. But that time never comes. Phrases like "I love you", "I need you", "I wanna be with you" stealthily vanish from our vocabulary. We no longer express our love for the other person. And that is when we go farther...
And sometimes. this farther is a destination beyond return. Once the person is gone..just gone...from our life..we cannot get closer any further..no matter how much our heart bleeds..no matter how many tears we shed. If a lifetime was not enough, there will never be enough. The void created will haunt us...will make us want the person back. But some voids are beyond repair. There is no going further than that.
Life is a bitter- sweet journey, and yet a beautiful one. Monotony spoils it. Break it. Break it with expressions..with emotions. Take charge before it takes us too farther. And stay closer to be closer. Let bliss rule !!
On that note, let me go a little further on the same emotions.
Sometimes...we are lucky enough to have our loved ones with us. Life becomes a festivity.
The story starts with "They lived happily ever after". And then it continues to minor drifts to major conflicts and then reduces to a mere fateful co-existence. The one time endless coffee shop discussions gets limited to basic dinner table conversations. Sharing thoughts, events, emotions gets renamed as intrusion of privacy. We do not cease to love. We cease to communicate. We take the other person for granted. And even worse. we take time for granted. We assume that time will wait. It will come..some other day..when I can still hold hands and walk...when I can still laugh with you..when I can still take you in my arms. But that time never comes. Phrases like "I love you", "I need you", "I wanna be with you" stealthily vanish from our vocabulary. We no longer express our love for the other person. And that is when we go farther...
And sometimes. this farther is a destination beyond return. Once the person is gone..just gone...from our life..we cannot get closer any further..no matter how much our heart bleeds..no matter how many tears we shed. If a lifetime was not enough, there will never be enough. The void created will haunt us...will make us want the person back. But some voids are beyond repair. There is no going further than that.
Life is a bitter- sweet journey, and yet a beautiful one. Monotony spoils it. Break it. Break it with expressions..with emotions. Take charge before it takes us too farther. And stay closer to be closer. Let bliss rule !!
