It is easy to feel small and lost in this world of more than 7 billion people. As the hustle and bustle of everyday life hurries us off our feet, it is even easier to not make a connection with anyone but our smartphones. However, life has a funny way of placing special people in our lives to carry us through, creating moments that will be treasured for a lifetime.
From the day we step foot into the world, a precious moment is born. We were born into the loving arms of our parents who will love us, discipline us and go to the moon and back for us to keep us happy and guide us towards greatness.
As we grow, be it the rebellious teenage years, the adventurous life of a university student or the late nights burning the midnight oil for exams, we make lifelong friends along the way. Now and again, we find a bestie who will always make life brighter, happier and all the more worthwhile.
We also learn about the complexity of love. From the giddiness of puppy love to losing our hearts and minds over that particular ‘someone’ that we adore, the journey goes on till we find the ‘special’ someone whom we decide to spend our life with.
Although sometimes, when we need to do life on our own and take the road less travelled, we find people along the way – sometimes even complete strangers – who will help us find courage to soldier on. Just as how a lone traveller forms friendships as he or she travels from city to city.
The reality is though; life is not always a bed of roses. When we are faced with the devastation of someone we hold dear falling into the hands of an illness or even death; the torment of the unknown and the distress of the future fill our days with agony because we are being threatened by the possibility of losing someone we can share life’s precious moment with.
Often when we look back at moments in our life, whether good or bad, someone else in this world would be sharing the same treasured memory with us. If those moments had not taken place with that particular person, the outcome may have been very different and we may have been very different people today.
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