Life is a mystery, they say.

How could one solve this mystery? I ask.

Since I entered my nineteenth year, life has been very kind to show me its countless mysteries. Sometimes I fell to the ground from the pinnacle of success, sometimes I became a timid girl in college from that courageous leader of her school.

Sometimes, I saw love; sometimes, I witnessed heartbreak. Sometimes, I saw myself smiling with the happiness of succeeding in an exam, and sometimes, I saw grief and sorrow engulfing me slowly.

The more I walked on the path of life, the more I saw mysteries. As if a full-bloomed flower, shedding its petals, one by one. Then she becomes the naked bud, unravelling her inner beauty all at once.

Life unfolds its mysteries to me this way.

When I come across a phase of hardship, I pray and meditate to seek blessings from the Almighty. Sometimes my tough time passes, but most of the time, it stays with me for a long.

In my childhood, I never asked life to reveal its secrets to me. Although I knew there was a country where life lives with magic, miracles, and mysteries. I secretly wished to travel there someday when I am a big girl, but as a child, I preferred to hide myself in the blanket to stay in a safer place from all the negativities of the world.

I was a child. But life was big.

And this is why I couldn’t understand the vastness of life before I entered the last year of my teenage. Life kept its promise; I was introduced to its darker side slowly; although not all at once, but slowly, one secret to be revealed to me at a time.

First, I saw the cruelty of life. Then, I saw its harsh side. When it reached the extent that was beyond my tolerance, one day, I asked, “How much pain will you give me so that I give up fighting with you? How far will you go to hurt me with your grief and sorrows? How strong will you be to prove your power to me?

I am stronger than you, wait and see.” I told life.

It smiled at me and whispered its secrets of mystery to my ears, “All you see is nothing but everything you wanted to see yet everything is wrapped in the guise of nothingness and that ‘nothing’ you see is ‘everything’ you will need to see.”

One more puzzle life left with me.

And this is why, now, I have realized, keep going is the key to unlock the door that leads you to the country of life, where your magic and miracles are awaiting.

I followed life’s words, and kept going towards the land of ultimate mystery.

(This post is a part of Blogchatter Half Marathon)