Forgetting A Nightmare

Forgetting A Nightmare
It is terribly hot, but what makes the heat tolerable and bearable is a knowledge that this is a passing phase. I can bear through the heat without grumbling because I’m aware of all the heat and dust that are the order of the day today shall fade into oblivion one day, and there will be a fine weather before me one day. It is sure to be followed by a much better and a more pleasant weather. The pleasant weather that is to follow is to fade into a hot dry and uncomfortable weather soon after, but I look forward to melting of the current phase of my life into a better and more pleasing life. The phase that is to follow shall be another story, but I look forward to melting of boundaries between the current phase of my life and the next.

I really wonder what and how life is when the weather is not as hot as it has been in my case. I’m sure life poses a different set of problems in the form of hail and storm before those who are not exposed to such bad weather. There is even a horrendous snowfall in some cases, but the problems life chose to give me are completely different.  I wonder why my case has been remarkably different from any other case.

I try to perceive positivities in the different treatment meted out to my life. While life has certainly given me a lot of problems, it has compensated me in a manner it hasn’t compensated anyone else. There are a lot of mercies and blessings of Allah I fail to see while I look only at the negative aspects of life. This is because the negative aspects in my life are so overwhelming that they tend to dominate over everything else. They would have made my life quite unbearable, but for the compensation I have been given.

In a way, it overrules all negativities in my life, but I sometimes wish my life had been as challenging as it is in the normal course of events, and I had the powers to bear through all the negative aspects of life with a smile. I haven’t been given any special powers, and despite this, I have had to walk on several different diversions. They have brought me before several different and unique aspects of life. They have been so intimidating that I wonder how life is when someone is let to walk on a straight path without any diversions. Considering my case as a universally one, I don’t think anyone is let to walk on a straight path. I strongly feel everyone is given quite a few diversions in life. Although they are of a different nature, walking on them is only an option they have. I do know they lead to a different destination and walking along them is a lot easier than walking on the diversions I have had to walk on.

 One of the diversions I have had to go through and I ought to be grateful for is that there was a prior intimation given to me of an impending bad weather in my life, although I couldn’t have ever done anything positive about it. I had also been intimated of some good times that are to follow the bad times to come in my life. In a small way, this made the bad weather quite palatable. This doesn’t happen in case of those who walk on without any diversions or find themselves on diversions different from the one I have to walk on.

A hot weather may not have been tolerable had I not been given a prior intimation of its terminable nature. I’m sure of have felt the heat quite severely had I not been aware this is also to pass. Bad times in everyone’s life, like everything else in life, pass away one day. Life in the contemporary hot weather would have been quite unbearable had it been infinite, and the torture of the bad weather been a never ending one. I may have found myself panting and wheezing for breath in a hot loo that is to blow in a few days. But I have been given a prior intimation of the terminable nature of the incumbent bad weather in my life.

Aesthetically and morally, it is bad and wrong to get a prior intimation of the days to come, and the weather that is to be the order of the day, but in a small way, I’m glad I did have a faint idea of what is to come in my life. it is a relief that events are following a set plan, and better days are sure to come.

The weather is sure to get better in a few days, but a change in weather is also a matter of my perception. What I feel to be better is visualised in comparison with what the contemporary state of affairs. It may be, and surely is, a way of life with someone else. There is a sharp difference in the degree of comparison with which everyone classifies things in life. what I perceive as ‘ better’ may be ‘good’ for someone else, and what I perceive as ‘good’ may be classified as ‘better’ by someone else. This way, I only need to change my outlook towards life to classify events and artifacts in my life with a superlative degree of comparison.

At the end of the day, the weather is sure to get a lot better. Everything in my life is to become arranged in a proper manner and I shall look upon the contemporary days of bad weather as a nightmare that is best forgotten.

I hope the nightmare is forgotten soon.