Just Another Day

Just another day,

Another morning, 

Another start,

Is it a new beginning?

But life is mundane, monotonous and a monologue,

Of my routines, acts and all thoughts and feelings.

Until I take a vacation, where is the time to relax?

Until I go for an outing, where is the question of fun?

Until I reach my goal, what is there to feel happy about?

Until I have achieved, where is the need to celebrate at all?

Until this, until that, until then, until I figure out the how,

‘Until’ a word I have whispered many a time, 

Pushing all that I wanted to do for another day or a time,

Days pass by, weeks fly and years too,

Sometimes it’s too late to catch up on all I have pushed away.

A sophisticated and advanced world I live in,

Yet wars and tragedies are a daily headline.

It is after one such shock that I took a firm resolve,

To make each day count,

Pushing the until out of my mind,

To seize each moment and experience it as mine.

Slowly Carpe Diem became my norm!

My eyes opened to the beauty of my life.

Mundane, monotonous and a monologue it may be,

But it is the one and only for me,

Filled with life,

Filled with love,

Filled with laughter,

Filled with fights,

Filled with tears,

Filled with all the emotions,

That a human can feel. 

What is so beautiful about it?

That I get to experience them,

With all that I love,

With all who are mine,

Everyday,

Again, and again and all the time.

Doesn’t this make life beautiful?

To wake up to the same tussles and hassles of life,

Sometimes poised and many times hysteric,

But filled with life, blood flowing in my veins,

Hale, healthy and sane.

Isn’t this a miracle in itself?

It is just another day,

Yet waking up to it,

I am alive,

I am blessed,

For I get to live it all over once again!