One of my dearest friend has a theory, that when you drink
any drink, there is this one long sip that you should take, till u run out of
breath or are satisfied to your core. She calls this the one satisfactory sip. I
used to do that too, but I liked the way she put it, so am using her coined
term here.
The theory has a very relevant analogy to anyones life as
well. You open up a cold drink and you take the first sip to taste it, see how
cold it is, to tickle your taste buds, to get the caffeine released a bit into
your system. Then you dive in. Life is also something like that. The early
years till your teens end are like your manufacturing process. Then you open
the drink. You smell it. Taste it. Get tickled by it. And then take the first
sip to taste it. Then comes that long satisfactory sip. I think this happens
typically after early 30’s, when you dive headlong into your life and push to
the limits. You are out there to make something out of your life and you are
taking that one long deep breath before you go in for the long haul.
Right now, am taking that long sip from the drink called
life. Will it be satisfactory? I don’t know. I sure hope so. All I can say is,
I won’t leave a single thing undone. By the time I finish the sip, I know I
won’t have any regrets. I read something very similar today….
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and
living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning.
You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You
are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it
happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes
near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all
around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many
as you could.”– Louise Erdrich
Promise something to yourself, you won’t leave many apples
hanging. You will taste as many as you can. Shake the branches with your bare
hands till all of the apples fall in your lap. Take that long sip, my friend,
to your hearts content.
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