Unknown Lives...An Explanation

An explanation for my earlier post 'Unknown Lives' 

There is no need to say that our life change day by day without our awareness. Off late, I get more aware of the fact that in this change, many people contribute tour life. Somewhere, sometime and somehow we might have crossed their roads. The only fact is that their lives were unknown to us till they came to play a role in our lives.

When I was in Bangalore, my friends from other parts of India used to make fun of me. “When two Keralites meet, they will first ask ‘What’s your name?’ and they next question would definitely be ‘Where are you in Kerala?’” Interestingly, they are true! But this is applicable not only to Keralites but also to others too.

When we are in a new situation and with new people, there is a tendency in us to connect with some of them. That is when we try to trace our common ways between them. As we get closer, we often wonder how we’d missed each other during the past even when we crossed the same roads. 

There are also people who came to our lives as total strangers and who became an integral part in our journey. But we might have earlier connected with them as total strangers. We might have been with them in the same movie hall, or traffic signal or shopping mall or temples/churches or at hospital etc. It may sound weird, but we don’t know who is there for us even on the very next day.

Some people went away from my life while others returned after a short break. Curiously,  even when they played an eminent part in my life, I never knew their lives completely. We were together for some time and shared the happiness and sorrows of that particular time. After the days of togetherness, we kept live the feelings for each other in mind and started a new life with new lives.

I may start a new life in the familiar but changed grounds very soon. .The life will turn another leaf. As I was thinking anxiously on the unknown lives ready to merge with mine, I had another thought. In a way all other lives except own life were unknown to us, right? We never know our parents' or siblings' lives other than period; we don’t know our partner’s life prior to the day we met them; we don’t know our child’s life after certain period!  . But one thing is certain. They all have imparted something or other into our self-to love, to care, to pamper, to trust, to confide, to fear, to hate and to be together.