While reading “The Inheritance of Loss” – a novel by Kiran Desai, I came across a beautiful statement -
“Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss?”
Think about it! Well…most of us I believe will answer - ”No”….. but why is it so? I have
been thinking over this from quite some time and I would share that after sometime…
meanwhile kindly enlighten me with ur thoughts.
What follows this beautiful line is also an interesting read:
“Love must surely reside in the gap between desire and fulfillment, in the lack,
not the contentment. Love was the ache, the anticipation, the retreat, everything around it but the emotion itself”.
Yup! Its really just an emotional world - developed by self! So, are you still in self-illusion?
January 22, 2007 at 10:49 am
Reading this,am reminded of Emily Dickinson’s poem,”Success is counted sweetest by those who ne’er succeed”.The importance of a possession (real or illusioned)as is usually said, is felt more in its absence than, when one has access to it..I guess thats why-one feels loss more pronouncedly.
Maynot be the best of analogies but I compare fulfilment, to bearing a fragrant flower garland and loss to the bruise brought about by the thorns on those flowers-just like life itself where joy comes with free baggage called sorrow and success with failure.
May 1, 2007 at 6:59 am
Fulfillment has only been defined this far, man has yet to learn what fulfillment means. Achievement can bring him joy, but he won’t be satisfied to the extent of fullfilling a desire, unless the desire is spiritual. This is my thought, as I feel that except in the spiritual realm, man cannot fulfill himself, and if he has, then he has been content in keeping it quiet! What I am coming to say is, today all of us can only count what we’ve won or lost, but I am not entirely sure if any of us can ever say that “I am absolutely content today and want nothing more in life.” (There are times when we wish for this state of mind, but that is precisely when you are at a loss…so the conclusion is, when you haven’t attained fulfillment, you experience loss, to different degrees).
(Those who are satisfied, wouldn’t be sitting at computers and discussing our thoughts on this:P). Now I shall stop, or this shall become my thesis.
October 17, 2007 at 10:37 am
Tumhara blog address change ho gaya pata hi nahin chala.. now I will follow this one