This too shall pass

I am trying hard to remember when was the first time I heard this “This too shall pass”. I can’t exactly remember, I grew up with this phrase. Was it from the Bhagavath Geetha reading that we used to do as a family every night? Was it from the numerous stories that my Tamil teacher narrated in the class room? I know not, but this I know well… this too shall pass.

I kept telling this in my mind in my younger days and now it’s coded in me. Is that the reason I enjoy every minute of life, knowing that nothing is permanent? “This too shall pass” has given me so much courage in the hands of fear, sorrow, disappointments and heartbreaks. I am not a monk or a philosopher so let me also admit that this has again given heartaches. Yes heartaches!

There are times when we get into the best version of life and start to float in the air. Everything around looks beautiful and in perfect order. Things happen in the way you want it to happen and it feels so good and heavenly. Many times, life surprises you with wonderful things that is beyond your imagination. We get to make friends or meet people who are wonderful and are the exact clones of our version of friends or perfect people. Sometimes, we get recognized and appreciated for the small efforts we put in, and that elevates our happiness. Everything around feels surreal, blissful, joyous and cool.

And there – at this point – this thought creeps in… “This too shall pass”. (Isn’t it a real heartache?) So, what do I do? I start enjoying every minute of that happiness knowing that it will pass. I soak myself luxuriously in it and also sometimes try drowning in it. I feel it with all my senses and take a better picture of it in my mind, yes the ‘internal selfie’ as much as I do the real-time selfies too. As a child, I even remember mugging-up the dates with memory technique and promising myself never to forget that day and that feeling in my life. All that I remember now is the promise I take very often but not the event. Oh yeah! Selfies were not around in those days (LOL).

Most of my memories carry the smell, the feel, the colours, the weather and most important it still gives me the same happiness. One more reason to day dream. (Oh! Now it is getting difficult to write; my brain is rewinding) I am fortunate, in a way, that my brain has the ability to forget the pain and it moves on. Even in difficult times, I have the same phrase shouting loud in my head. It has made me turn my ‘camera’ off, and literally make things pass, without much recording. I just turn the ‘camera’ off; not my emotions. I become sad, depressed, annoyed, and irritated now and then. I let myself soak in it for a while but I make sure not to carry the feelings with me. The very few memories I have of the not-so-good situations in life, don’t have many emotions attached to them.

This has helped me be a happy person, limitless and I am always ready to create ripples of happiness. ‘This too shall pass…’ but the ripples we create, live forever in the universe. So make sure to create more and more good ripples, happy ripples and ripples with love.

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