Hidden Meaning Of Life

"Time is money" but unlike money you can't get it back. Once the time is gone, it's gone forever. But there is something unique about time. Most of us know that time is eternal . We don't know when it started or came to being and we can't know when it'll stop or cease to exist. Each and every moment of time is essential and loaded with limitless possibilities.    If we contemplate it, we get to know that everything takes place in time . Nothing can happen outside time.  How? Let's go deeper. Try to remember a pleasant memory. Now you remember that. That memory was an event in the past and past is a component of time. Thus, memories are in time. Your actions, their results, everything occurs in time. But what is this time?   Time itself is a memory, it is a healer , it can give you happiness or take it away from you (it depends on your state of mind). It is something you cannot escape. It is always there whether you notice or not. This time

After a wait of nine years, finally, I read this gem named ‘The Alchemist’ by Paulo Coelho. My reading journey began with two novels, when I was in 9th grade. The first one was Bram Stoker’s Dracula and the other was Paulo Coelho’s The Witch of Portobello. Then I came across Coelho’s one of the greatest works that is The Alchemist .  My desire to read this book was otherworldly. I wanted this very book and struggled a lot to get it. It might seem bizarre but I found this book nowhere. I searched libraries, bookstores, even asked some of my friends but something was stopping me from reading it because either the novel was out of stock or sometimes unavailable, or sometimes out of budget. Then, there came a time when I was a non-reader for almost 5 years. Fortunately, in January this year, I bought this book and I was jumping with joy, but I couldn’t read it due to a busy schedule. I read it during lockdown (due to the pandemic) in June. One thing which was always there in my heart was

I have never seen the ocean But, I have seen the sky. The infinite sky represents The unfathomable ocean And the bottomless ocean reflects The beginningless sky. The deeper we go into an ocean And rise high in the sky More darkness arise. The deeper we go into ourselves, More darkness we invite. Only this darkness can teach us The true meaning of light.  - Saloni Bajaj