Hope ???

I am in a slightly philosophical mode. Sort of upset. Upset with people. Susan's observation is correct. Well, life revolves around people. If you press the remove button from people, you will find a big hole. Or rather emptiness. The world will come to a stand still. 

I only remember what my colleague asked me few weeks back, "Sentha, Have you ever thought what is the purpose of life?"  "Am I not asking myself for a long time over and over the same question?" the question run through my mind. But I smiled at him. That's all I could do realizing the magnitude of the question. If at all I said something, it would probably be blind leading another blind. I didn't want to do the mistake. 

Life unfolds itself with hope. Thats what Pan commented on my Facebook. Yeah. We go to bed hoping we would wake up next morning. No doubt. We book tickets few months ahead (except people like me) to go wherever we plan to travel hoping that we would be still alive. We plan to study whatever we want to study and we dream to build empires hoping everything would be fine all through our life.  Hope has two sides- also Pan said. Chances are there that we won't wake up next morning in spite of the fact that we have been waking up everyday and in spite of the hope that we would wake up the next day.  We  might not be able to travel and we might not be able to build empires. Probability theory. You toss the coin in hope.  You will know only when the coin touches the ground. Pure luck. 

Life is a trial and error. We need to learn and relearn. If we learn from the previous mistakes, we would be so perfect in everything we do leaving no doubts and questions behind. During our last Toastmasters meeting, somebody said you have to make mistakes in order to learn. Huh? 

I was surprised when Melvin spoke that life is a roller coaster.  I was wondering if he had lived enough  to speak about it. Age is nothing to do with experience. Who knows what he went through in his life?

Once when I was talking to my friend over phone, he said that you should try again and again even if you get upset or hurt. Why would you want to try when you know trying another time brings disappointment again? Kids toss the coin repeatedly when they are unwilling to see the head. And, there is a childish innocence and childish expectation in everyone of us. Every time we toss the coin, we are hoping to see what we want to see. We hold our breath giving full attention to the coin forgetting things around us. What is wrong in that expectation? Don't we all deserve better things every time or every other time? 

Interestingly enough life unfolds itself with a lot of mystery. As my friend said, it is not a mistake. You are not lucky, that's all. It takes time and maturity to accept the luck or the so called fate and wait for your next toss, if you are still okay to be hurt again...

And me? getting colder.....