The Great Randomness of Life

It was a long cherished dream to see the Marine Drive drenched in the legendary Mumbai Monsoons. As it turned out, on the last day of my stay in Mumbai, the skies opened up to treat me to this beautiful sight. The great randomness of life

I have always been a believer in the words that no magic can be recreated. No, I'm not talking about the tricks that some men masquerading as magicians flatter people with. I'm talking about the real magic that happens to us as we move in our journey of life. All the special feelings of life, all those moments that grew beautiful when we were not even expecting them to and turned into tiny little specks of beauty on the vast canvas of life are unique and unrepeatable. They are magical. You can't plan that sort of magic, I feel. The universe decides to treat you to its beauty on its whim. This is what I call the great randomness of life.

I have spent twenty four years of my life and seldom have I been able to plan the beautiful. All the lovely associations with people I have enjoyed in all these years, all the little achievements of my life, they were all things that just happened. Yes, I did wish for them at some point of time in life but even when those wishes came true, they were much different from the childish imaginations. This, I believe is something immensely beautiful about life.

However, the more I have experienced it and the more I have understood about it, I have realized beautiful as it may be, it's after all randomness and the thing with randomness is that you can't predict anything. While I'm thankful for all the beauty that the great randomness of life has treated me with, there is always the slight frustration because when a magical time ends, you just know it has ended. It's in the past then. And there is no way it will repeat itself with the same intricacies again.

But that's not saying that life won't be blessed with magic again. It will be. Or at least that's what an optimist like me would want to believe because he already has been on the right side of it several times. But then again, there is this teasing uncertainty about it all. You know that magic is around the corner but you're still in the dark where is it exactly. Or maybe, someone up there has decided that you have redeemed all your moments of magic. You don't know. And that's what makes you feel a little sad inside as the randomness plays its games with you. When you don't know the future and your best moments are in the past, the present becomes a little challenging. Probably, that challenge is what is life, the interstices between all the magic that the Universe bestows us with. Maybe, we are supposed to weather the hardships in those interstices before we get rewarded with more magic in life. Maybe.