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Someone said, “life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced". Life, Oh life. To be part of this daily routine of living.... You and I....sometimes it can get boring. Pause. So let's just take a break and reflect on some of the things we all share a mutual understanding of. Replay.

1) Sometimes, home can....and will be the worst place to be in. It can go beyond the petty quarrels about chores to really deep rooted crisis that last a life time. You'll feel unloved, unappreciated, unwanted. Maybe you're the one who doesn't even want them. It is hard to imagine you were once happy there, your safe castle. It happens to the majority of us, some of us don't even come out of it still together. But it is something we all experience all the same.

2) Mistakes are inevitable. None of us, through the whole process of living that doesn't make mistakes. There are small mistakes like breaking a cutlery to big mistakes like losing a very important document. We may be sorry, beat ourselves up for it but something to keep in mind is that you're not alone. It happens to the best of us. We're simply being ourselves. Humans. 

3) You don't know everything. I thought I was smart- like- it was pretty hard to find someone smarter than I am. Emphasis on ‘was'. Zillions of people are. That doesn't mean I'm dumb, no, not at all. I'm okay with it, and you should too. I know that feeling when you're the top hunter among the pride then some mango comes along and suddenly you're in the background.... unnoticed like you're a part of the wallpaper. You'll always meet that one person that is +1 more than you. Instead of withdrawing completely and ending the fabulousness of your life, accept it and move on. 

4)There'll always be something unique about you. Like your handwriting or laughter.  It doesn't matter if you do it worst or best, it can just be the way you do it. Like the way you make doing chores look fun or reading look lively. How you love to narrate every scene in a movie. It doesn't matter what it is. Just as far as everybody identifies it as your ‘thing'. You're unique. Revel in it.

5) Sometimes we'll have to learn things the hard way. First hand experience. Like hairstyles that'll completely ruin you or not to put your phone in your back pocket. Ouch! We will always have lessons to learn from life, whether bitter or sweet. Remember, it is not a life you're living if you're not learning anything.

6) People will hurt us. In this world, there are no Christians or Muslims, only good people and bad people. And sometimes, good people do bad things and bad people do good things. It's not only people we perceive as our enemies that can hurt us, our friends do also. And we hurt people too. Our lives can be a network of broken relationships amongst other things. It's never perfect. We aren't perfect. But life still remains one hell of an experience, like a trillion different stories woven into each other.
Thanks for reading.

No 6 and 2 are too imminent and inevitable.