41/218 when you're lost When you're lost and you feel like crying, cry. Don't cry for the sake of crying; you must cry your heart out. If you are truly lost and the pain makes a sandwich of you from all sides, it makes sense to have a great cry. Often, very often, in times like these we realise that we are alone in this journey of life. The other times, all the celebrations and parties and intimacy, are just band-aid solutions to feel a little less empty. All the friendships, relationships, and even family are good for certain security but relying on these makes you fall on your face because you can't ignore the reality for long. So when you're lost, and you're alone, feel grateful that you are exactly where you should be– lost and confused in this huge drama where everybody knows exactly what they're doing. It's better to take a step back and observe this drama with some curiosity but we wait for life to thrash us before we face the beautiful chaos. Question everything when you're lost. Question the reason you got hurt. Did it happen because of your own imagination, self created ideas and boundaries? Wonder what would happen if you resolved to break these boundaries? It's like the game of rejection. When you get rejected for the first time, you're literally knocked out. It takes months for you to recover. But when it comes to the second, third, thirteenth, and two-hundred-twenty-fifth rejection you can easily manage a couple million more. This happens because you're immune to rejections now. Your mind is stretched beyond the ideas of that one person who seemed special at one point. Your heart has become more flexible and you can love beyond boundaries. It's so flexible you can wrap the world in its thread of love a million times over. The more boundaries you're breaking the better you're becoming at life. You embrace the hoomans, even the nasty ones, because they are yours. They have become your family because your ideas of family have become broad and beautiful. Now every tragedy in someone's life is yours and every celebration that happens is yours only. Everything, including the cosmos, is yours now.
