Srishti: How To Grapple With Emotions?

    • Srishti Goel, class XII, NPS, HSR Layout, Bengaluru
    • Publish Date: Dec 18 2019 12:35PM
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    • Updated Date: Dec 18 2019 12:35PM
Srishti: How To Grapple With Emotions?

If you could have any three things in the world, what would you ask for?” The answer left me stunned. “I’d ask to always be happy” “What else?” I fired back. “Why would I need anything else?” he replied, almost as if I’d misunderstood. This got the wheels in my head turning.

Ever since I was a child, I’d been searching for a hidden answer to life – one that held the key to everlasting peace and happiness. The ultimate victory, perhaps, in a battle we grow up fighting against sadness and pain. Yet, sometimes, it feels like a battle you don’t want to fight. That was me two years back, when one of my biggest idols, the lead singer of a band that kicked off my love for music, Chester Bennington, committed suicide.

The news caught me off guard and sent shockwaves down my being as I was assailed by a whole array of emotions - shock, guilt, denial, to name a few. I felt numb and lost, grappling in the dark for days, looking for an explanation. I tried to create a tribute to him, summing up all my experiences with him, and what it meant to me, but I came up with nothing that could portray how deep this wound went. It felt like the ground had been ripped apart below my feet and the very thing holding me up was shattered to million tiny pieces.

Yet, in my confusion, I realised that my feeling of the loss was only a proof of what his existence meant to me. I realised that being happy all the time is not what I want any more. I want to be able to experience the whole spectrum of human emotions – the joy, the sadness and ugly days. I want to squeeze the last golden drops of emotions into my life and find the strength to move on. Our emotions are our key to life’s playground.

We may never want to play with anger or hurt, but they complete our playground. Sometimes something unexpected delivers us with the most brutal emotions we could ever imagine. Yet, it ends up showing us the real meaning of being truly alive. Life is victory and defeat, pain and joy, love and hate, everything at its extremes, and everything in between.


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Saahil Shaikh THE BISHOPS CO-ED SCHOOL

That''s a superbly written article. It clearly describes how we should grapple our emotions

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