Redrawing the circle of life

How many times have you heard the phrases like "It’s the circle of life", "What goes around comes around" or "There will always be a sunrise after every sunset"? Do we really believe in these things? If we do, then what is it that makes us restless during the hard times and makes us forget the meaning of sadness during the good times? And if we don't believe in any such thing then why do some events keeps repeating in our life again and again even though we had already learnt the lessons earlier?

A good friend of mine once said that it's a psychological fact written in some book she had read, that a person's life is based on some events, which keeps repeating itself in a specific pattern. To stop that repeating process you need to escape from it by staying strong. I asked her how to be strong to escape because there is an organ in human’s body called brain and it keeps messing up, especially the corner which stores memories. She replied that there are 2 ways to block those emotions either by meditation or by external medical help. It’s been a long time since we had this conversation, but I realized something else today; these aren't the only ways to do it. The third way may sound a bit crazy and it requires you to go on a bit of roller coaster ride because it targets your weak points again and again harder and harder until you get strong enough to ignore these emotions. The third way is to let yourself go on the road of self-realization, let yourself complete that circle no matter how painful it gets. 

The story behind this realization is even stranger. Here it goes:

Whenever i am on the way to home from office I don't generally like to indulge in small talks with people as I find them all judgmental and fake. Instead I like talking to trees. I know it sounds like I'm a bit crazy but seriously, have you ever considered looking at them and imagine what it would be like if leaves could talk. I imagined a conversation with them and it was a wisdom conversation. I imagined that the sound in the wind is not actually the wind's voice it just acts as a medium to have a communication between trees. One tree passes its message to another by whispering something in the winds ears and wind transfers the message further. The conversation I had with trees on the way went like this where wind played its role of being a conversation medium "We know the truth, you don't have to tell us. We know who you are, you don't have to explain yourself. We had seen so many things through years that you can’t probably imagine. He created us just to teach you how to live only if you prefer talking to us. We have only one thing to say to you now: Why do you think we shed the dry leaves? So that new one can grow because if you will not end something there will not be a new beginning." This conversation wasn't the first one I had and will make sure will not be the last one.

I did understand that first we all need to end things to have a new start. We can’t have loose ends in our life. But I wasn't able to understand how to do it. Should I just skip the journey and try to reach the point where I can start something new or should I continue with the journey. But I finally got the answers of that as well. I visited that place again where I was scared to go because of my fear of losing myself in the mist of self-realization, I was afraid of completing that circle because while doing so my weak points were getting bruised but I decided not to escape the circle, instead I went back there and kept watching my past until it started fading away and this made me realize that it doesn't affect me anymore, not like the way my head tells me it does. Sometimes our brain plays games with us. 

Then I understood the real meaning of the conversation I had with them. Just like every leaf completes its journey through all seasons and finally sheds away in the soil, giving way for a new leaf to grow, we need to complete the circle of life. We can't just escape from it along a tangent. We need to complete the one we have been circumventing for so long and reach the very end and then start it all again but with different approaches and with a much more strong personality that resides in you. We all give up at some point, but that doesn't mean we can't stand back again. We all have that potential that we used to have as a kid. I still remember the times when I used to fall down and stand back again noticing there is no one around to pick me up. If as small kid we used to do it then why not now. We are more mature than ever, we are stronger we are more aware of the things around us then why there is a fear of falling again. Why a small kid in us used to understand the pleasure of standing on your own feet and not us. We have got to stop worrying about unnecessary things and start thinking about the soul that keeps trying to be happy but we are the only person chaining it down by fear, jealousy and sadness.

So just stay strong, keep up with the circle of life because surely there is end of this circle where the new beginnings are waiting for you and the one you ended wasn't probably meant for you.

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[nauman]

in an attempt to complete that complete cycle, I never know when it is complete, and I repeat the cycle.
And sometimes when I quit early, it repeats itself anyways because I could never really complete it.

I know one thing for sure, 'stop worrying about unnecessary things and start thinking about the soul'