"... mysteries of a lifelong quest ..."

As infants, when you enter this world..... this dark, cruel world that is more keen on sinking you into its depth of sin than sacred...... you would have a guiding light - a light that acts as a caregiver, protecter, punisher and mentor until you break away and fly........ its believed that the light is the one that in that span of time has given you the tools for your long flight...... the guiding light can be anything - it could be parents, experiences, friend, a lifelong aquaintance, anything at all............ But what one fails to see is that this light cannot possibly equip you with what you need..... a need to take in the essence of your surrounding and yet the need to retain your individual essence that halts you from merging into it...... a reflex to shun out  all the evils out and about yet an ironic desire to nurse the evils within........ an instinct to protect yourself from emotions that sear you yet ruthlessly succumb to the most painful sear of them all............ for me all of this shall remain mysteries of a lifelong quest - one that may not yield answers but one that gives more of such strange, bewildering and insatiable fragments - that like the rain, drenches but exhilarates........

The French call it....Romance

Oscar Wilde said that "Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.".....

This is not to 'declare' the fact that the man was a true 'genius' in every sense of the word or talk of his capacity to conjure sheer magic with words.......... How often has one felt that they have come across something so marvelous that you cannot express it in words...... There are people who stream into tears the moment they hear something remotely romantic (as you may have guessed- I am not a hopeless romantic in the sense it is popularly noted)...... The true essence of romance I believe is lost in time....... It exists like a rare antique that is protected in its paucity, to be savoured by only its true connoisseurs........ But one wonders wether everyone does go through this fleeting yet ubiquitous feeling.......... If you ask my opinion.... its almost impossible not to go through it at one point or another as romance exists everywhere.... from a scintillating wine glass to the sprawling sea...... Its impossible not to feel it once just as it is not possible to live and not breathe........