A Rhapsody

A while back I read this quote that proclaimed how the funniest thing about life is that no one gets out of it alive! I read it, chuckled, and then chuckled some more! It has since become something I keep telling myself when things are not going all that great. In spite of the glaring truth in that quote, isn't it incredible how easily life twists us onto its littlest finger and twirls us around like nobody's business!?! Playing havoc with our emotions is just another day's job for the miracle that is life! Phases of elation, monotony and gloom may be a recurring feature in almost every person's life, but isn't the feeling of being happy after long periods of gloom, always a welcome and well-received phenomenon? No matter how adroit we be in handling despondencies, there's nothing like soaking up the first rays of sunshine after a dank few days!!! (Not the sunshine for me, though! Give me the cold weather and damp snow any time!) Anyway, going back to my metaphorical frame of mind, as welcome as the sunshine may be, there also lurks deep inside a sometimes unnecessary fear that before we know it, dark days may come upon us again and soon! What keeps us going, nevertheless, is hope and trust. Without these, each of us would have had to accept the biting cold as a companion of many precious days! Not that I mind it in its real, physical sense, but accepting it in its metaphorical guise is an altogether different ball game!!!
Intuition and premonition work in much a similar manner for me. They may portend joy or dismay, but what makes them bearable is hope. For, although we won't get out of life alive, we'll at least die satisfied.