-Amla Srivastava

We’ve all been running too hard, too fast…to reach some place that exists only in our minds. But maybe we need to pause and see which place we are running from and what is the place that we are running towards.

What difference would it make if we ran harder and faster towards the mirage that we see in a desert, we’d reach our destination only to realize we’re still in the desert, still surrounded by it, and nothing has changed.

Even if we found an oasis in the desert, we’d only be able to truly appreciate the oasis because the desert exists, and we’ll only be able to bear the desert because the oasis, or the mirage of the oasis (that motivates us to search for it) exists. It’s time we learnt to hold the binaries together, for neither would have existed without the other.

Maybe hope and despair too, need to be seen and understood in the same way. We cannot appreciate one in the absence of the other. Where there is hope, there is always despair…and where there is despair, there has to be hope.

희망이있는곳앤박다시시려니있네(방탄서년단—Sea)

Translation: Where there is hope, there is always hardship(Bangtan Seonyeondan —Sea)

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