Hope Between Cracks

Prachi Jain
4 min readApr 4, 2020
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How often we wonder about being HOPELESS vs HOPEFULL.
I think we all end up in the first zone and call ourselves hopeless but secretly looking out for hope in all things that we come across every. All we do is try finding how do we keep going? What are the things that can keep al the hope alive in us and we forget how good we are getting at handling things? While searching for an answer we all are ending up living our life in the most beautiful ways possible.

All we are trying to do is to find or maybe I should quote “Managing the balance between being Hopefull and Hopeless”. At least in both the words there is so hope left. HOPE BETWEEN THE STRUGGLE that is the place where we realize how much do we have to hope for and how much can we afford to lose ourselves. Undermining the efforts that we put into things when it comes to doing justice VS putting way too much time on to something where we end up losing ourself in the process. The thing is that we mess up so badly we don’t know after a certain how are we going turn all of the things around and how are we going to fix it. In the midst of everything, that is happening around we become the victim of your doings and treat ourselves as the prisoners of the past. The after that follows all the weird things that one could possibly think of and start doubting ourselves in all the million ways possible.

Our mental health goes for a toss and so as our life we feel like the end of the world but it isn’t and we know that as well. We try to run behind those feelings, people who meant everything to us at one point of time and now have ripped us apart. It is not the person that we miss it is the memories that we carry with us inside in the whole process and we think about fixing ourselves in all the possible way but we end up hurting ourself even more than before. We are trying so hard to run away from that situation and state of mind and we end up doing something, even more, weirder to deal with and slowly and steadily that becomes the part of our lives and we start living it with it as if it is a part of us. We wear and mask and live our lives so that no one understands who we are exactly and how are our thoughts. But still, the only thing that keeps us going is we keep finding the hope between the cracks.

Life will keep finding a way back to us through its pain and pleasure and there should be a crack in everything I guess that’s how the light will enter into us and then the light will guide us home. Because not for all of us home is 4 walls, it can be in someone arms or comforting hug and all we want to do is to end our day and have a pleasant sleep in our home. It is never going to be a hunky-dory ride but it is sure going to fascinating enough to keep you at par and not at large.

“When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something’s suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.”

If that doesn’t break you it won't make you, a line that I keep relating to myself and keep myself motivated to move ahead in life because sometimes self-motivation is the only thing you should. But, if you need help in any form you shouldn’t hesitate to ask one. You can’t go through few things without the support and the support when it comes from the one whom you trust definitely puts you in right place and it’s okay to not be okay, you can’t always happy, right? You need sadness to enjoy happiness and you need to know what is happiness to understand what sadness is. It’s a vicious circle of life which is not going to stop and we all are going to be in this loop but the only thing that we can do is to be kind towards each other understand the need of a person and you can’t always fix a broken person just with your motivational words. You need to give things some time, give some time to time to let it sink in and have its own place or rather let it make its own place…

The last thing that you can do is to be kind to one another and let them take there own time who need it. Fixating on fixing things isn’t always the ultimate solution. Sometimes staying silent is or maybe stop running behind the closure that you were seeking out for would be the ultimate decision, sometimes the best closure is no closure.

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Prachi Jain

I will meet you right in the middle of all the chaos, neither this side or that side..