The socioeconomics of humanness

The socioeconomics of humanness lies in the beauty of balancing the aspects of togetherness and isolation. In a world where life coincides with the duality of forces, oscillating between the forces of light and dark, beauty and hate, love and hatred, birth and death, humans are the most endearing and detrimental beings ever to exist. The prowess of intellect and communication, with the stellar mind that created the strides of evolution and lapses of civilization, is undeniably the most striking aspect of what makes humans the most resilient beings of them all. Yet we fall into the pits of downfall, where we forget the radiance of hope, the enclasp of a mother’s warmth, the depth of kindness, the trance that we fall into from time to time although harrowing, is what makes us human. We have to go through a phase of failure and aloofness to fully embrace the goodness of bliss and the peonies of gratitude that embellish the strides of our existential realm.

October felt like a blazing rainstorm that enclothed itself in the roller coaster rides of lessons and miseries that needed to be felt, to be devoured into, to drown me. Rustling through its humid skies, riding over the wave of thunder and turbulence, October felt like a long sermon that forgot to end. From brewing the hot coffee on a winter morning to crying over the chances that I lost, life has been encircling me in the pool of uncertainty that mellows its dense traces as it reaches the end.

Finding my traces in the grieving spaces of the rusty October corridor,

I found my soul in the broken pieces of my soul lying on the kitchen floor.

October in its mirth did not fail to shower hope, to live for the moments that blaze,

In the liveliness of tiny moments of happiness and dreams that the heart yearns to chase.

Isolation lives in the minds of those who walk in the voices of their head, the ones who dream more than they are told to, and the ones who shun the existential stance of where they were born or how they are forced to be. How beautiful was the world of silence, in the footsteps of October, I embossed every facet of my darkness that existed. Dualities of the universe created the world, the sun hides its blaze sunshine into the somberness of the sky so that the mortal arena can seep into the serendipity of the moonlight.

It was in the moments when my life felt like it was slipping through the crevices of uncertainty, that I felt every hidden emotion that belied into my conscience. It was through the brokenness that I found my resilience, it was through the adversity that I discovered my passionate fires, and it was through the moments of chaos that I strode towards the tiny glimmers of hope. I fully believe in the notion of the law of balance, for every joy that we experience, we have to feel the pain, for every win that we accomplish, there is a failure that we need to endure.

The socioeconomics of humanity lies in accepting every part of you. Every facet of yours that seems too glorified and every shadow fraction of your scar that you think is shameful. I am not perfect and it is my imperfections that forge the radiance and allure that exists in my psyche. There is no point in time yesterday, today or tomorrow that I would ever be flawless, no matter how hard I try.

This realization led me to do what is best for me and not care about what others think. I stopped asking for other people's validation, I stopped seeking the approval of others and most importantly I stopped dimming my light just to be digestible to others. I know who I am, I love who I am, I like what I do and I like the way I do it, I accept my mistakes and I embrace the way I learn from my mistakes, I don't want to be anyone but me.

To anyone who feels like they are too weird or that their presence is not powerful enough,

I hope you realize that you don't fit in because you are born to stand out. To shine in your truth, to accept all parts of you, the past, present and the future and be who you yearn to be. I hope you live your life the way you want to live and not care about what others perceive you as.

Because you are beautiful, enough and amazing just the way you are!

-Hridya Sharma