One Fine day....

Life isn’t just a one-time experience-it feels like a journey of the soul, repeating itself, striving to reach its true form. We take birth willingly, embrace death when the time comes, and move forward. This realization has brought me at a better point. Not because I’m running in a race, afraid of missing out, or trying to console myself for something I don’t have, but simply because it makes sense to me.

One day, the world will continue as it always has, but I won’t be the same. Just like our grandparents, who once lived here but is no longer with us—yet life carries on. Perhaps they have been reborn somewhere, living a new journey, different from their past ones, might be in our own homes as kids and we don't know. If I were to die today and be reborn five years later, I would enter a new world, shaped by a different time and circumstances. I wouldn’t think, act, or speak the same way and so won't bother about todays situations but might be the current ones. My physic, my habits, my choices, my thinking everything would change. 

One day, everything will remain as it is, but I won’t be here. One day, while everyone else still has 24 hours, I will experience the shortest day of my life. One day, when my death is mourned, I won’t be around to see it. Perhaps, instead, I’ll be preparing to return in another form, on another journey.

If life isn’t just once, why are we so desperate to race through it? 

And if it is only once, we still can’t have everything-so why the rush? 

The choice is ours: to live fully or just exist.

Look at how we capture endless photos during celebrations, trips, or happy moments—almost as if we are really going to cherish those. But do we really revisit those memories? My phone has thousands of pictures, yet I only look at a handful that truly matter. The rest? Just digital storage. 

In the past, with limited resources, we cherished handwritten letters and treasured photographs as our main ways to express emotions and preserve memories but the need is to create those moments having emotions and not the fake photos. Today, technology allows us to connect instantly with loved ones. This constant availability has led to expectations of immediate responses, sometimes causing unintended pressures on our relations.

Maybe the real focus should be quality over quantity.

What if we truly lived in the moment instead of trying to be everywhere, doing everything? What if we traveled to fewer places but truly experienced them? Had fewer friends but ones we could always count on? Gave less, but gave with our heart? What if we stopped trying to be someone we’re not and just embraced who we are?

We’re running after everything, convinced that life happens only once. We want more, expect more, and in the process, forget to actually enjoy what we have. We keep collecting, waiting for the right time to finally experience it all. But what if that "one fine day" never comes? It actually never comes.

Lets make it the time to choose living over surviving.

-Manisha