Period. New Line.

Fly. To fly, they say it's my dream. It never is. Flying is something that comes with full stops. But we have invented full stops in our lives. We follow deadlines, that is our period on the letter of life. But if you really want to fly, you have to be free of any stops, you have to follow on a long journey and go wherever you want. It is just like when you were young, and you didn't know any grammar and you could think anything is possible. Those are the moments I am talking about. There's the freedom.

Commitments. They have commitments and so they never have time. What is time? Why are we counting? Is it too hard to go through the days that "one, two, three...." will keep you company. Is that why we learnt numbers? Pursue your dreams. Everybody has heard those words. What ARE dreams? Is there a definition to it? And if it needs to be achieved why do we have to slog? Isn't watching a dream in itself fulfilling. Because you had the ability to think about it.

Illusions. Some say everything we have is an illusion inclusive of life. Doesn't that lead us to be a nobody. And if we are all smoke then we fill up the air. We make it easier to breathe. Breath is air, it is life. We are all same and we all share similar problems because we have full stops. But these full stops give us time to introspect. And with my last stop, just think.......over nothing. Full stop.



Inspired by Pablo Neruda and Up in the Air.

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