The Set Up.

The real horrors of life are revealed in the junctures when we are growing up. Growing up isn't easy. The easy life when we depended on others seems to be twisting and curling changing its shape into something we don't want ourselves to get into. The phase where everything our eyes see is beautiful except for us. We enter the chapter where we are making choices every second. Choosing what to wear, what to eat, how to talk, whether to be mature or not. We are finally heading into the phase where the ropes tied to us and to the back of the car, running smooth till now are cut. We are on our own. And this is when we are brought to a stage where nothing really makes any sense. It's the place where we fail to recall who we were and we're entirely altered. We have friends who weren't there four years ago, we have a growing family, and we have somebody to love. Things keep varying and no matter how much we tell ourselves that nothing can change us, we do change. Or maybe the change that we feel in ourselves is simply an adaptation to the different situations we are put in. Changes aren't easy, at first. But then we learn how to live with them. And once we see the stop right ahead of us, something new takes place and it's a whole new journey now. The vehicles we travel in might keep changing. From a bicycle to a foxy, a Mercedes to a tractor, it may one day become a scooter, perhaps a pair of skates. What never modifies is the road we are on. It's just one road that has all the surprises, shocks, horrors, misgivings, happiness, joy, love, darkness, light, hope, anticipation, bliss, and every other thing that we expect to feel, what we do feel. The road never changes, it's the same long road and we are the travellers. Some of us are unaccompanied, some are alone and some of us are promised. Our goals are different, our means are diverse but the road we are on, it's the same. We may experience our ups and downs exactly at the time when the person next to us is travelling in calm and quiet, we may feel in that fraction of moment that we are the less blessed ones given the high road full of slumps, but later we are only to find our ways turning into a suave path when that very person next to us has slumps in waiting. We are oblivious of what we are destined for.

We should not think about our future bringing the worse for us, what we should do is wait for the time to do its job. There's a reason why everything is the way it is, but we humans, we are built with overpowering curiosity to find out things before they've happened. It's for sure electrifying to know what the future has in store, but the real beauty lies in the making. It's hard, but it's worth it. It isn't that, while we wait we should put our hands off of the entirety of our living, we shouldn't. We should live in the moment; see the sites in our way on the journey that's called life. Cherish every second of it, live it. If we keep busy in digging up what's in the mass, we might only find an end to everything. So yes, digging up is exciting, thrilling, but the commendable thing, is hope. Hope for good, hope for betterment, hope for release. It sure is the hard way, but it's the only way. There's no easy way ever. The easy way is only a set up. So whatever we do and acquire on the journey, do it the hard way. Win someone over; the hard way. Help someone find themselves, help someone build themselves; help others, that's the only way we can help ourselves. And not to lie, all we really need to do is help ourselves. 

Sometimes it's the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.

-Drake.