Re-Living the Past?

I have learnt - learnt in the truest way possible - by personal experience and feelings - a very important lesson.

One can never 'go back' in life expecting to re-live the past, hoping to experience the same again. Because the past does not exist any more. It is as simply practical as that. If one ever returns to the same places, things, people - the very same artefacts would provide for a new and different experience. The past has already gone - and only new experiences and things await you in every forthcoming second of your life. The path of life is a strictly one-way road. One has to always remain in open embrace for the new, the inexperienced.

The only place where the past still exists nearest to its original form is in your mind. So any time you want a stroll backwards in the journey of life, just let your imagination wander - maybe with a few external material stimulants in the form of mementos, photographs, writings, etc.. Only this will take you nearest to what you seek.

Follies in this perspective while setting expectations will only leave one with unbalanced equations..

With every new step, it will always be a new unknown experience. The step is always a step forward, and never the opposite. (And thank God for that!!) One has to always stay open, uninhabited and ready to make the best of whatever awaits round the next corner in the journey of life.

The journey of life is the flowing waters of a river. There is never any retracing of steps. Every additional yard always brings forth a new place - hitherto unseen and untraversed. There may be 'similarities' - but it is never the same. And what has been flown past can never be revisited - they are gone - for ever.

The course can be long or short, ferocious or mild. It will be adorned by variations and wonders all along. But at the end, akin to the unalterable certainty of the beginning, the infallible certainty of emptying into the sea - the death - awaits all.