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Here comes the third in the series. And following the trend, this one is different from the last one. Today, I am in a philosophical mood.

By far, a lot has been said about life by a lot many.And a lot many would keep saying. Some consider it as a rat race meant to be won. Some consider it as a lemon race, who think that there is no point coming first if one has dropped his lemon (lemon being health, relationships blah blah). Some even consider it as a longest orgasm anyone can ever have (sorry if I am getting too explicit). These people are hedonists who consider that everything is meant to be enjoyed.So exactly what is life?

For me life is a sinusoidal curve with varying amplitude. There are times when you feel like you are THE happiest person around. And there are times when you feel that things couldn't have gone worse. Your coordinates on the X and Y axes define your reactions.

Everything looks so optimistic and hopeful in good times. You feel like you are the master of your destiny. You meet people and they become your friends. You make plans and they work. You make guesses and they work well. You try your luck and it pays. You climb the first half of the curve very fast. And you feel things would never gonna change AND you make THE mistake.

And soon, everything changes.

Till now, the same belie of yours, which had proved you right, suddenly, start collapsing. The world seems to be a totally different place. The situations change. And so do the people around you.You feel out of place. A yearning for the "past-perfect" does nothing to alleviate your pain. It only worsens it. As, recently, one of my friends said to me, "Past is never past". I read somewhere that a person's glorious past is his biggest sorrow. "How perfect things were" becomes more important than how present things are. Reminiscence becomes you enemy number 1.

But as I said-Soon, everything changes.

We humans are traveling towards our destination. We are shortsighted and can not look beyond a fixed point which MAY NOT be our destination (though, at times we feel like it is, but eventually it turns out that wasn't). But THE ALMIGHTY is sitting right at the top of the cliff beside our road. He knows from where we are coming and where we DESERVE (and not DESIRE) to go and accordingly designs the optimized curve for us.

Have we ever realized the petty things of the past, which would often give us a feel of this-shouldn't-have-happened, actually turned out to be blessings in disguise. Things like getting less numbers in class tests, getting scolded by parents, "India not winning the match"(especially for me, and for most of the guys) seemed to be so unlovable . But if I look now, had I not got myself accustomed to getting less numbers in school class tests, I wouldn't have been in a situation to complete my engineering. Had my parents not scolded me, I wouldn't have been the way I am. Had India not lost the match, it wouldn't have known the feeling of being numero uno after being at the bottom of the charts for long.

And similarly, today, the things we feel, that shouldn't have happened, would ultimately turn out to be blessings in future.

Life goes on. Sinusoidally.

As of now, I feel that I have completed one full wave of my life. An era has ended, and another has started. And as I said earlier, it has all the characteristics of a sine curve. The highest highs and the lowest lows. The agonies and the ecstasies. The curvy smiles and the misty eyes. The laughter and the weep. The should-haves and shouldn't-haves. But till now, I am contented with the curve I have drawn. For, I know that I have tried my best in whatever way I could have.

And I wish to do the same in the second wave that is coming towards me. Or am I going towards it??

Lets Wait and Watch.