Has it ever
happened to you? You would be looking at some pictures of yourself, maybe the
old school hard copy of the pictures or on your phone or your computer, and
suddenly you realise that the person in those pictures is you! You! The one who
is looking at the pictures now is the same person who is in the picture.
No? Never
happened? Is it just me? I think not. Try doing it once; take out an old album
and look at yourself. I am sure you would have felt it at least once.
What is the
meaning of it? I look at myself knowing very well what I am looking at and yet
it takes me second or two to get to the realization that, ‘Wait, that is me…’
Have I changed so much to the point that I am no longer the person who was in
the picture, that it feels like a distant memory, a memory from a different
life? Maybe. We all are so many people inside one body. Is it just one life
that we live, or do we live many lives in one lifetime? If you would have asked
me a few years ago, I would have said it is just one life. Probably because
when we are at home and have a protected life, we have a different perspective towards
life. Everything is sunny and bright with rainbows and joy, with occasional
storms but you pass them with ease. But once you get out of home and you get to
see the real world, you are on your own, even though you still aren’t fully
detached from home. These initial stages of early adulthood manage to teach you
a lot of things, especially for someone like me; I had to relearn everything I
thought I knew about myself, the world and life. Alright, to be honest, while
at home I didn’t often think the way I do now. Anyway, coming to the point, if
you ask me now, is it one life or many lives, I will tell you its many lives.
Yes, there
is the usual infancy to childhood to adolescent and adult. In the first two
stages, we’re too little in this big world and we are too busy having fun. The
third stage is where we question ourselves and try to understand and come to an
acceptance of ‘this is just a phase, you’re not going to remain like this,
relax.’ But as we step into the adult part, I think it’s the first time we
relearn everything. It is like opening a new empty journal, start writing fresh
with references from the past which, most of the times, do not come to use. And
that is only the beginning. From then on, so many changes occur, so many times
we learn and relearn and make mistakes and start again.
Every part
of life requires us to be a different person. Circumstances sculpt you in
various ways and harden your skin. You cannot remain the same and expect
everything to go well. Change is mandatory. And what is happened is past and
old. You are the present and new.
And maybe
that is why we often do not recognize ourselves, maybe even when we see the mirror.
But that’s okay, it means you’ve faced life truly and let it cast you into a
new person. Just you know, in the end, you must keep moving forth.
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