Snakes and ladders

Dad got me this amazing board game during one of our numerous train journeys we used to undertake. Me and my sister used to play with it whenever we couldn't tolerate each other anymore, it used to be a good time pass. Now that I am all "grown up and all". Can't help sit back and realize life is actually a game of Snakes and Ladder for me. You take one step forward and two step back. But there is a beauty in this game, the next time you take a step forward you know what not to do, you get to understand things which you didn't before, you are more firm, more confident, more determined.

Then comes those downward spirals which just makes everything pointless, all the effort worthless, all the time spent wasted. You loose a sense of direction, purpose and this is where you get lost you keep asking the same question over and over again. Until nothing else matters except those questions/ frustration why these things happen to you? It's very hard to get up from them you are just lost in your own thought's, you find peace in solace, and everything else just doesn't make sense to you anymore.

But I guess the answer is/has always been front of you.But you choose to ignore it all along, because the task in front of you is too tough for you to handle, you just can't think of facing the challenge and you thing its humanly impossible. Its hard to do it because it requires a lot of effort/ sweat/ determination and you are too comfortable moping around rather than picking up yourself and move ahead. You are too comfortable living in misery and you just don't want too let go. But you rather live senselessly without feeling anything other than the storms inside you.

Well the first step is hardest but it makes you realize this is it this is life- Snakes and Ladder. Just keep you head down and do the best you can don't look left don't look right just keep walking towards your goal and then in no time you are up again on the board racing towards the finish line. The pain turn into fun, fun of rebuilding something which you thought you could never rebuild and all the past looks like a blip on the radar slowly fading having its own bitter sweet memories, and maybe someday someone high above the clouds will notice you and roll the dice ........... to take you through a new journey :)