Life at Riddles

A few while ago, a friend of mine complained, "Muskan, nothing is helping. Thoda sa kuch sahi hota hai, and then it all comes back to the same place"

Do you face that too?

Sometimes, life plays with us. It shoots a problem at you. With no escape. You ask yourself questions, and then you find certain answers. You follow the path. One answer leads to another answer. Then to yet another answer. It gives you a sense of victory until you come back to the same point. To the same question. You find yourself stuck into that same square of problems. Like the square of one is always one :)

And life says, "HOWZ THAT"

But why does that happen so? Aren't experiences in life supposed to teach us and make us better? Yes. They are. Sometimes we keep coming back to square one because we keep finding solutions to our comfort zones. We keep try to reach a particular faraway point by stretching our hands to the utmost. We don't even try to move our limbs :)

When problems keep recurring, you need to change your approach. If whatever you have been doing, hasn't helped you, then what is the point of continuing to do it! 

Is not life like a video game? At every next level you need defeat more monsters and for that you need to evolve. Growing is a one way approach. But when you evolve, it is because, you have outlived your previous self and are now bolder, stronger, smarter in every possible detailing. 

That friend of mine had cut loose most of his contacts, blocked people who were trying to help him, ghosted friends and what else? He did everything he thought would ease up things. But what he did was only- cutting down his community so he had less people to be answerable to. And ofcourse he wasted most of his peace of mind and stamina doing this. It gave him relief and but never changed anything that could have changed the coarse course of his life. 

Sometimes we need to find a crash route to places we want to reach. What seems easy peezy doesn't necessarily have to be easy peezy. It happens a lot with me too. When I am too much occupied by a problem in my head and try to divert my mind out of it. I give myself satisfying answers. But then, it all comes down to the same place.

At times like this, try to solve riddles, not problems. 

If we look at life like a riddle, answer always lies within the frame of the question in your head.