Saturday, August 19, 2006

Another excerpt from "Shantaram"

Well.... i found this really inspiring... dunno about you.....

".....For this is what we do. Put one foot forward and then the other. Lift our eyes to the snarl and smile of the world once more. Think. Act. Feel. Add our little consequence to the tides of good and evil that flood and drain the world. Drag our shadowed crosses into the hope of another night. Push our brave hearts into the promise of a new day. With love: the passionate search for a truth other than our own. With longing: the pure, ineffable yearning to be saved. For so long as fate keeps waiting, we live on. God help us. God forgive us. We live on."

Hmmm... its like, we all know that the road ahead is going to be as rocky as the steepest mountain (thats from our perspective, of course).... but still we continue to live on in the hope of a better tomorrow.... i mean, sure, if we didnt do that the human mortality rate would be sky-high..... but that just means that the only thing sustaining us, giving us the will to push on into another day, is HOPE.... hope that tomorrow we will get an opportunity that we missed today....hope that tomorrow will be better than today.... Probably, some of this HOPE is also intermingled with a LONGING........ a longing to prove ourselves... a longing to succeed..... a longing to live until that tomorrow-which-will-be-better-than-today........ what say??