Diary Pages - 20th Birthday!


I wrote this on my 20th Birthday

Twenty years have passed since the day I was born. Through these years, I have passed childhood, boyhood & entered the realms of being a man. I have matured with time. Now I think of my actions, the words that I speak… the spontaneity & innocence is lost. Wisdom, caution has taken over, as it does to most of the people on this planet!
 
What have I learnt in this time? Well, that life is a beautiful, exotic thing & one is more privileged than one thinks. In addition, that life is unforgiving, it never forgives mistakes, although time is a great healer of wounds.

I have been lucky! Life has been not a bed of roses but it certainly not has been a bed of thorns. I have had a fair mixture of both & I am happy that I am still going on. I have also felt God. The supreme power that controls everything & takes care of every responsibility, dutifully. I have felt his love & care for all creatures & I believe that “hope” never dies… it will never ceases to exist.

I have seen great people, who have proved themselves in life, have success kiss their feet & are still fighting on. Among those wonderful people my DADU and DAD lies on the top of the list. My Maternal GrandFather’s will to live & fight on amazes & inspires me. Another great man has been Bhombal Dadu, his detachment to material things & yet carrying out all his duties deserves more respect than I can offer. Well life goes on & new people come into our life & inspire us. Hope that the lessons learnt from them keeps me in good stead.

I am now entering a world, where I have to succeed to taste happiness & peace for the rest of my life as well as bring joy to all those people who sacrificed a lot to bring me up, like my Thakuma-Dadu, parents & a few other close relatives. I hope that my work keeps me happy & brings me deserved glory. I wish to remain the same humble, fun loving & caring person that I was brought up to be.

Well, fate has brought me up to here & I must say that I have full hope that it will lead me in the ultimate journey of one's life… The journey of finding eternal happiness & truth.

Joydeep Mukherjee
11:17 P.M.
June 04, 2006





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