The River of Life
Life. It’s such a beautiful thing. It’s a story, in which you don’t get to decide the beginning, but you surely get to decide how you live it. You don’t choose your parents, but you sure as hell choose your friends. Life is a tender thing. There’s a large part of it that’s under our control, and a larger chunk that’s not. As time goes on, our successes and failures, our ups and downs, are what define our life. As someone very aptly said- “Life is like an ECG screen. There’s no life without ups and downs, just like an ECG monitor.” There are a lot of similarities between life and a river. A river is as gentle and tender as life itself, and has a lot of similarities to it. A river usually starts off from a glacier, and has no say over which glacier it starts from. It has to flow through multiple terrains, some benevolent and life-giving, others rugged and having no scope of tenderness. This is just like how us humans have to travel to different places, with different environments and und...