A Poem On Nothingness (Closure) Comments

Thank you Brian.. It is important for all of us that we stop being intimidated by nothingness, and give positive meanings to our lives..

Thank you Nosheen.. I have had many a sleepless nights with these thoughts and questions, and now, finally, after all these years, I have found some sort of relief from these thoughts - :)

Thank you Valsa ma'am.. My encounters with nothingness came as I lost faith in God gradually since I was 18 to the point when I turned 20.. In these two years I lived in a heavy turmoil without answers.. Then I read three books - Machiavelli's 'The Prince' that made me question the State and power, and morality of the establishment, followed by Macbeth whose 'Tommorrow, tommorrow, tommorrow' soliloquy made me think if life was indeed just 'sound and fury signifying nothing', and finally Neitzsche's 'The Birth of Tragedy' and the first book of 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra'... All these readings shaped my perception and my beliefs.. Shaken my faith in metaphysics a great deal.. And they were follwed by more Nietzsche and Sartre. Finally came 'Hamlet' and I was intellectually in a 'void'.. Combined with my personal experience of a kind of existential crisis in love, I lost my identity almost... I had faith in love, but lost that too... That send me into depression and loss of my academic career... But now, a lot more mature, and more well read, I feel I forgot an important figure amidst all of these - Francis Bacon - he said a very important thing - '...studies give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.'.. And my experience through a journey where I have had many intellectual and emotional turmoils made me realise a simple 'truth', so to say, that we need not to think more than we can.. We can take what comes at our life with a smile if only we believe in ourselves, love each other, and maintain a simple life.. Hatred, violence, anger, and over-analysing.. These are harmful.. Just live by living a life of simplicity.. Love, be charitable, and try to find peace - emotional well being.. Yet check in these emotions by intellect, and vice-versa.. When wit and passion go hand in hand in right proportion, we live happily, at least content! !

Thank you for reading - :)

Thank you Kelly.. When I was younger I believed in many things to be true.. Accepted a priory judgements without any questioning whatsoever.. And then came a phrase where I was restless.. I tried to do too many things, attempted to find answers to questions that had (and have) no answers.. And now, perhaps at a third stage of my life, I have calmed down and accepted that my life is just consequences of my choices.. The only thing I can do is to make good, sensible choices based upon my intellect and emotions - not necessarily mixing them, but thinking deeply from both my mind and heart, and finally take the best (comparitively better) route... This is life..

Thank you Arzoo.. In my 24 years of existence there has been many moments where I have had doubts about everything. And I know with time there will be more. The only thing that I do not doubt is that we as humankind have let down horribly.. We call these things 'morality', and make women the sole bearer of the 'moral fibre' of the society.. Yet our morality evaporates the moment women refuse to be chained down in these disgusting, regressive laws, and try to live their lives with freedom.. We spare nothing, even the Nirbhaya case, Jyoti Singh - we had 'moral gurus' questioning her 'immoral' behaviour and tried to justify the barbarism that happened with her.. People justifying rape! ! I feel disgusted with these.. The sheer horror of being a part of a society that does such acts in the name of morality.. Laalat hai in par.. Shame on this society... Shame on the morality.. Shame on ourselves that we have failed women.. We have failed...