The journey of a line

Good morning,

Take a pen and a blank page. Now draw a line diagonally across the page. Now, draw another line, also diagonally but in the opposite direction. You should now have something that looks like an ‘X’ Take your pen and circle the area where the lines cross. Label this DESTINY.

You have just summarized Human relationships and life; and you don’t even know it.  Each line you drew represents a human journey in this life time. It is your path and someone else’s.  The place where they intersect is where your paths or hearts meet. Take notice of a few things:

1. Once lines cross they cannot be uncrossed. Once 2 people meet, there is no going back and “unmeeting”. you are always connected to this person, whether you want to admit it or not. Its called a memory. Feelings go. Emotions go. But you still remember the facts. Once people meet, they stay forever connected. 

2.  Notice how the lines are permanent. You cannot erase them. The more you try to fight what is, or what happened the more frustrated you become. Its easier to accept what is and allow it to be.

3. Notice how you don’t really know which line is on top and which line is on the bottom. This shows you that no human being is more superior or inferior than the other. Both are equal. All humans are born equal. Only some, truly realise their worth.

4. Notice how if you keep drawing diagonals lines your path can intersect with other persons. Perhaps not tomorrow, or next week, but it can.

5. Notice how the 2 lines almost never run parallel to each other. We are all on our own journey but we get supported from time to time.

6. Notice how you started with a blank page. The paths you take are the choices you make, the choices you make define the experience you have, the paths that cross although some by “chance” create the pattern that you see of your life. When it is time for you to take your last breathe, you will look back at your own canvas, and you will see a work of art. Art is a very opinion based subject. Who is to says yours is a disaster or a master piece. However in the end, will you like what you created?

7. Notice how as you go on in life you cannot NOT keep yourself from meeting people. You path will cross with someone. See that line moves with time, and even if you decide to keep a straight line, someone else’s path will cross with yours. So you can run, but you cannot escape your destiny.

8. Can you tell which line is a black person, white person? Indian? Coloured? NO. On this paper, all human beings are just lines. Can you tell religious beliefs? Can you tell castes? Can you tell how wealthy someone is? No. Getting the picture?

9. You cannot draw over a line again. You cannot go over a line to go backwards.  If you do so, it’s not a line anymore. Its a scribble. In life, you cannot go back to you past, trying to do so will end in something really ugly.

10. No paths are forever. A lifetime is not even forever. One day – well, soon…I will have a wife, and I will not want to see her die…but it happens. So, while nothing is forever, Love is. Love continues evern after we leave the body.

Happy drawing. Make your canvas a good one!

Love,
H

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