Everyone has a fire burning deep inside us. It is that fire which makes us feel alive, makes us rush forward, take risks. It never lets us rest. Today, while thinking about it, I realised why slavery survived so long in this world. They had let themselves surrender because the fire within them had gone out. There was no spark of life left within them. It took hundreds of years for the fire of life to be rekindled. And once it did, you could see how the world was transformed. Never let that fire in you go out.
“ What is the feeling when you're driving away from people, and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? It's the too huge world vaulting us, and it's goodbye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.” -- Jack Kerouac (American Poet and Novelist) From what I have seen and admired in humans, they are eternal optimists. Goodbyes seem to break us, but we straighten up and walk, holding our head high, blinking away our tears. And as regards the specks of people dispersing, when something moves away, something else comes near. Guess that's how laws of nature move. If a time comes when nothing else comes near, it's when we will become really alone; alone to live and love life without any reason, taking the next step forward.
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