I have a childhood friend Cukoo. She is now settled in the US. My friend has evolved as a beautiful person by accepting life changes peacefully.
The other day Cuckoo came into my dreams and said "Dear friend though both of us have wonderfully settled in our respective lives but dear friend it is so difficult to change and let go of small stories we two shared in our childhood".
I said, "Dear Cuckoo we humans are like a piece of fabric, made of hundreds of threads of stories we have been telling ourselves for our entire lives."
Cuckoo said "Dear friend the reason we are so afraid to let go of our stories is that as soon as we start letting go of one story, then another, the fabric that once made us confident is now being torn apart. We feel we are falling into nothingness. We start thinking gradually we will simply become empty."
I said, "Dear Cukoo as we try so hard to let those small stories of our lives go, we 8feel resistance building up in our bodies."
Cuckoo said, "Yes dear friend It’s so painful as if my self and you together are cutting away something valuable and significant from myself and yourself that is from our identity; something, which, at some point, has come to define me and you and our meaningful life."
I said " I and you are not whole or complete anymore, because the stories that we shared in childhood and adolescent age to make us complete are now slowly going away from us and we feel somewhat empty, we feel lost, and confused. To conclude suppressing our life
experiences is not a healthy trend in life."
I said Cukoo "Sometimes I choose to view those stories as shoes or clothes we used to share and exchange at certain phases of our lives. I am grateful to them as those stories, like clothes, protected us from heat and cold or, like shoes, they took us from place A to place B.
Cukoo said "Yet, it’s important to acknowledge that we have grown up. We have got married and have beautiful kids and of course, with time our bodies have changed."
I said "The clothes and shoes that once served us for important purposes, are not suitable for us any longer, they simply do not fit you or me "
Cukoo said, "Dear friend, we do not reject the idea that once we used to wear certain shoes or clothes, we embrace that fact till today and we are in peace with same."
I said "As I am letting go of my past stories, sometimes it’s so scary and takes so much of my courage. I feel if I may not reduce to zero for a while, and sit without knowing who I am.
I further said" I am OK with not having any clear answer to the question “What is my story”
Cuckoo said" Dear friend do not feel scared. Now the time has come to start weaving a new fabric of our identity with the threads of new empowering stories from the US and India respectively."
Cuckoo further said, "But friend what’s different this time is that time has come we have new stories in life which wove our identity of you and me respectively."
I said, "In this modern era of science and technology due to our strong past experiences we will not resist changes in our lives and will accept the new stories and let them go gradually with time to accept change in life."
Moral- Let us embrace our new stories and gradually let them go with time. Let us be ready to change when the time to change will come.
Sukarma Thareja
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