You often aspire for a lot of
things-not necessarily materialistic; love, friendship, relationships. It’s
like a constant search hardwired in your DNA. Everything and anything that you
see around, things that appear to be perfect, things that are almost perfect, except for that one missing piece which fits into the
symmetry of nature. You would admire it, maybe even acquire it, settling on a
compromise, hoping that with time you’ll learn to do deal with it and the
almost perfect will transcend into the perfect. But a little ways down the
road, you’ll realise, that the missing piece
of the puzzle was not missing, but it never was there, and is something that cannot
be done without. For the puzzle is still incomplete, and there’s no fun in
that. For all that is there to admire, but for that void, the nothingness, that
empty space, is all that you’ll ever see and yearn to fill. Every now and then,
maybe you would look at the puzzle, distracted by the sense of beauty that
allured you once, you’ld be happy enough so much as to forget about the void. But the negative force generated
by that void, is sufficiently great enough to overcome that happiness
eventually [1]. The love, the happiness will eventually descend
into the nothingness. And the puzzle will crumble into a million pieces
eventually.
You’ll feel angry, and sad that
it had to happen this way, but maybe someday maybe you’ll remember it with no
regrets, and only the happen moments will flash before your eyes, and that it
was fun. Life is oddly ironical this way.
I often surmise these thoughts
with this quote from one my favourite books, Gone with the Wind:
"I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken--and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived."
[1] This a practical physics result
and has been verified experimentally. For any body which is perfectly symmetrical
such as a hollow sphere, the integral force exerted at the centre by that missing piece
is equal to the force exerted by the remaining body. It’s amazing how much
physics actually holds true to aspects of life which otherwise can’t be
quantified due to the absolute vagueness of idea.
