Living the Questions

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...I would like to beg you dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

Rainer Maria Rilke, 1903 in Letters to a Young Poet

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Syra said…
They say that it takes time to realize your blessings. Maybe time is what really matters, and the journey is what counts, not the destination. Maybe it’s the experience of the soul that really makes our souls worthy of the promises of heaven. But I would rather jump in the ocean, and fight like hell to live and survive the nightmare, rather than standing on the shore and living the dreams. I was told that the end of all that lives is death. Then why die standing on the shore, struck by lightning? holding just the dream that was? If you choose to jump in the ocean, at least you had lived for what you believed in. You had fought for what was right, in your mind. So if it were up to me, I would rather embrace the pain of the answers I am kept away from, and die, than live the life of waiting and wondering, wishing and hoping for the books of fate to turn to the page of mercy and hand me down my dreams that I earned without tasting the reality of pain.

~IsbahStar On
Another point to ponder

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October 21, 2008 at 10:19 AM
Isbah Omer said…
oh my gawwwdddd.. i forgot even writing this... WOW!!! waisey i make a good point here... :p and both the ying and yang seem right. :)
October 21, 2008 at 2:03 PM
Syra said…
a wise person said
"Life must be understood backwards but it must be lived forward"
October 22, 2008 at 1:25 PM
Isbah Omer said…
What i notice is that yr perceptions of things depend alot on the circumstances. I remember when i wrote this comment, i was in a 'certain' situation, which made me react to it differently.

I have always loved this quote since i was a teenager... and loved it again when i read it now... maybe its time that heals you and makes you understand things and be more accomodative towards cutting yrself some slack.
October 22, 2008 at 6:06 PM
Isbah Omer said…
although i do notice that you are a better writer when you are angry! ;) my comment at some leve does beat the crap out of love for questions!! :p
October 22, 2008 at 6:07 PM
Syra said…
You know, I wrote a similar comment and just didn't post it =)...the star sisters do think alike sometime ;)

And I can relate to both your remarks 1) being in a certain situation and reacting to something differently 2) writing better when angry\high on some emotion

sometimes when i revisit my past writings..i am likee....whoaa...did i write this? and reliving the moment when i wrote that is kinna nostalgic/pleasant/unpleasant...a mixed kinna feeling
October 22, 2008 at 10:01 PM
Saira Andleeb said…
"Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one."

~Edith Wharton
October 22, 2008 at 10:39 PM
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