The Circle of Life

By Varenya Shekhar

A fact that a lot of us refuse to understand is that we need to make space for the new to come. For another life, death is imperative. A new seed can only sprout with the nutrition it finds through the pleasing agony of the remains of the dead. Knowing that we can’t change the past, we choose to hold on to it and let it pile up as clutter. We fail to understand that we need to let a bird out of its cage to fly beyond the sky freely, but we tightly grip it in the fear of it going away. We scare it with the dangers of the world isolating it when it needs to face them to overcome them. When it finally glides, is liberated, and makes mistakes along the way, we grip those mistakes, as something that bonds us to the bird, not disavow the emergence of another. We can’t help those mistakes, rather, we need to accept them and move on to the next chapter. We see a new chapter as another danger because we have not given ourselves the chance to face it headstrong. As we continue, we experience the journey which leads us to commiserate with the circle of life.

By Varenya Shekhar