Discerning the meaning of life...

 It was the day when our juniors had given us the farewell party. In a few days, we were to leave school.  Almost all the girls from my class were teary-eyed. Some guys hid their tears after all guys weren't supposed to cry. I held my best friend's hand and promised her I would never leave her side, come what may. She promised the same. Days passed, we finished our board exams, enrolled in different junior colleges. Distance increased. Conversations appeared to cease. Ego in the guise of self-respect had begun to interrupt. I tried my best to stay in touch with her. But it seemed as though she had found better friends. All that remained was a set of memories that weren't worth remembering. That was when I realized, I had wasted the most valuable time of my life on people who had never really cared.

Every night when I get ready to finally shut my phone and get some sleep, a few things flash before my eyes. These things or rather incidents weren't something that I was unaware of. These were the images of those incidents that had occurred to me. 

These images force me to contemplate on how my life has changed through the years that have passed. I feel I've been the same for a long time. And then I think of those people with whom I had shared the incidents of my life. 

That's when I realize, most of them weren't a part of my life anymore. Then I think of why these people must've left. Now there was a time when making the important people in my life happy was the only aspiration of my life. Never had I ever come across people who would give importance to me the way I gave to some of the people. And then another thing struck me.
All that time during which I was busy prioritizing other people, I had shut myself from reality. I had shut myself from the people who actually cared for me. I had taken these people who really cared for granted just like how I was taken for granted. 
Discerning the perspectives of life can turn out to be labyrinthine most of the times. But our efforts to decipher life and its various shades should never pause. 

I have always believed that whatever occurs in a person's life has some or the other meaning. A meaning that is deep-seated. 

So whenever I think of those people who are a part of my life, I prepare to make myself accept that someday they would be gone as well. 

We had come into this universe alone. We had come to fulfil a purpose. All the people we meet are like the levels in a game. To win a game you need to cross the levels and to find your purpose in life you need to come across a number of people who will help you find your purpose. Like in a video game we have hurdles. We also have boosters that make us efficient to overcome the hurdles. Similarly, we have all kinds of people around us. Some are hurdles and some are proponents.