Turbulence is best understood by someone who has experienced plenty of it. Meaning of words like urgent, priorities and happiness is seen in a different way and context altogether. Once you’ve been through anything life altering, you tend to see life in a new shade altogether, and not a frame that can be fitted for others to understand. To borrow from a movie quote I always cherish ‘How do you get out of a fire without any scars? Well, you don’t’
Why speak about turbulence when the title of this piece indicates consequences? The reason for that is simple and yet elusive. Consequences can sometimes be your own doing and sometimes be the doing of someone else, either way you may be in place to live with it. Ofcourse there a way out, there always is but calling it quits in life or anything within it is not as easy as it seems. Walking to the edge, as difficult as it may be is very different from jumping off it, that’s a different extreme altogether. There are some consequences that hurt you and change your being in a way which you may not have foreseen? What do you do then? Can you live with it? Why? How far can you go? How much farther? What will be your limit?
Over the years, the ones who’ve lived through the most consequences keep getting their limits stretched farther and farther. And yet, the hope of a different future is hauntingly beautiful. Hope itself is sometimes hauntingly beautiful. But the reality is a different thing. The truth is that the father your limits are, the farther on the edge your reality will remain because getting back from the edge is easier said than done and no matter how much you may try to get back to who you once were, the mirror never completely lets you forget where you’ve been. So what do you do then? Stuck between the hope of a life and the reality of another life altogether?
You let your instincts take you where they do. Let the dice roll and wait for the roulette to stop. Or atleast hope that it does.
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