Life is poetry ?!!

For me , it is easier to write poems because in few lines I am able to say a lot.  Many times the poem may not be what it actually looks like, it might be having a totally different meaning than what it actually gives out. 

In some way we are all like poems aren't we?? projecting our life in such a way that it actually does not have any similarity to the life we are living every day but at the same time it puts a beautiful matching garb over it expertly.

Now not every one is a poet but we all carry some sort of poetry in our life.  Just like a poem gives out it's apparent meaning in it's  stanzas through imagery or alliteration we give out  our entire life story through our body language, our expressions, our social media accounts.  Now a days these are the nuances based on which people assume about our life.  The better photos I have, the happier posts I put up, happier my life looks. So easy!

During my college days when as a Literature student I had to study a lot of Greek mythology, English Poetry and Shakespeare's sonnets I used to really wonder if not for all authors, at least a few of them that " is it really what the poet meant'?" because in Literature we are free to make our own assumptions, we can color the character the way we want , we need to substantiate it with strong backing though. So while we are deciphering what the poet meant in a certain way, this question always lingered around in the corner of my heart " is it what the poet really meant"? 

What I mean to say is that it takes a lot of courage to portray a stark naked  life , that is to show the life that you actually live.  To portray one exactly as it is.

Everyday life requires a lot of courage. In real everyday life there are no audience, they are not interested in the mundane, but underlying the mundane there is a simmering life to be lived every bloody day. To live this life, to get across it we need to have faith in ourselves, we need to pat our own back because there will be no likes and loves all around, no fake 'beautiful pic' comment from any one.

  To knock down the sorrows, we will have to stand straight and look into it's smouldering eyes, to make the loneliness and burnout vanish from our life we will have to tame these bullying emotions with stern self confidence and vast will power.  

I am a jumble of  words and sentences right now and may not be making much sense but this quote from 'Robert Louis Stevenson' aptly sums up what I am trying to say " Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name".

This is a shout out to all those who are putting up a brave face every day, ventures out of house every single day, tucking in the sad hollowness of  the life under  fake smiles and bold demeanors.