All our longings can be explained away, but not one can be wished away.
Longings are like thirst. Just as thirst can only be quenched by water, not soda, not juice, the longing cannot be fulfilled by anyone else. Just the person/thing/place we are longing for.
Just because there is intense longing today, doesn't mean that the longing, or even the affection, is for forever. It's for today. It's needed in your life today. The place/thing/group/person does not have to be a part of your future. And that's ok.
Longings are like thirst. Just as thirst can only be quenched by water, not soda, not juice, the longing cannot be fulfilled by anyone else. Just the person/thing/place we are longing for.
Just because there is intense longing today, doesn't mean that the longing, or even the affection, is for forever. It's for today. It's needed in your life today. The place/thing/group/person does not have to be a part of your future. And that's ok.
6 comments:
Nice post.
Call me crazy but I believe that longing is essential to living. Life would probably be boring without it... the rawness and vulnerability that it brings is a hard addiction to give up :-)
Hi Cloudcutter: I know what u mean :)
The last para reminded me of something I had written and posted ages ago on another blog. I just posted it here again:
thecloudcutter.blogspot.in/2015/10/today.html
Very true
but some longings dont seem right...you you long. and thats when you start looking for alternatives...
Onkar sir: Thank you.
Lucifer: The whole point of a longing is that its there. Its real. The social rules, they are not real. As time passes, I move to a stage where I trust the heart way more than I trust social rules. Its not a movement to id. its a movement to trusting self over trusting some random rule. u can look for alternatives.. but read point 2. Anyhoo.. to each their own.
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