Meanwhile, when the world was moving at its own pace and dancing to the everyday blessings, a man was sitting there in the corner with a long face, living a life full of misery, and going through all the torments. But he wouldn’t lose hope, NEVER. He would fall ten times, eleven, and one thousand…; but wake up again with sheer energy, loads of intrinsic motivation, and an unrelenting commitment to bring back his life to the glorious track he was destined to walk miles on. From one failure to another, he would taste the bitter tablet in all walks of life. From losing sleep worrying about his career (that certainly wasn’t going well according to his plan), to dealing with numerous daunting past regrets; from showering his unconditional love & immense care on the girl of his dreams, and still getting stabbed in the heart, character questioned, and image publicly maligned, to anxiety, severe stress, and depression making him hate his life more with every passing second.
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‘Pure happiness & smile’ had gone cross with him for months now, his social relationships weakened, and melancholic times surrounded him all around, which all eventually led to further deterioration of things for him. Fortunate he was that all his tears had been tipped off his eyes for months, that there wasn’t any more left. He at least had no fear of breaking down in front of the very few benevolent well-wishers of him now. And time kept on passing, when one fine day, he realized that, 'that's exactly how life is, and it goes rogue for anyone and everyone out there at some point of time or another'. No one’s going to come to his rescue, unfortunately, not even the few closest & the dearest ones of him. He himself will have to take charge of his life’s boat that had so far sailed through almost all the choppy waters existing in the world. Sailing through the harsh waters for long durations of time had turned his once lavish & captivating 'yacht' into an old & weak 'boat' that now almost looked like a useless antiquity which has lost all its sheen. A lot of repair, denting-painting, and machinery work was to be done to make his boat conducive to the present times. He knew that it was going to be a herculean task, and the formidable possibility of this adding to the huge list of failures was, as usual, really high! But he made the necessary strides this time with utmost determination and a balanced strategy that he had never before. He did the same things as he had been trying for months and years now, but with a twist of the billion-dollar wisdom that he had developed while going through the agony. Little did he realize that the challenging times that had broken him to his core so far, were actually preparing and making him an invincible and indefatigable warrior.
A couple of years later, he has achieved all the targets and the quintessential goals of his life that he once had lost all hope for.
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…sitting in the corner of his lavish bungalow with a long face, he gently smiles, contemplating that the past’s misery and torments are now all gone. But alas…the new ones have crept in. Taking a deep, calming breath, he self-affirms, “That’s…life, and it really is an absolute treat!”