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Falling in the Dark and The Road Less Taken

Some things remain with you for your whole lifetime.There are two things in my case.One is a dream,in which I kept falling into infinity,into the dark place made of I don’t know what,I don’t know where and I don’t know how.At the end of the dream,I just find my self holding my pillow or bedsheet holding very tightly and a heavy sweat over my forehead,with a tint of ache in my back and head.For some time now I have not been having that dream but I don’t want it to return it anyday again in my life.I tried to goto the past experiences,and tried to figure out when did I get those dreams.There have been many instances in my life,when I have been friendless and all alone.Not necessarily lost but definitely alone.I had suffered with this dream for the maximum number of times during my college days.In school It was very less.However, the last time this dream came I was really worried.That was the time I was 1 year into the Job.At that particular I got the real essence of the dream.I knew I was falling endlessly into darkness, and I didn’t know where my career was going.I didn’t know what to do to and what to achieve.Then one day, the day of biggest happenings, I am not sure about what date it was,I woke up to one of my long forgotten thought.Suddenly I found myself heading towards a direction which I found.

That thought was the road less taken.I saw this photograph somewhere.Some painter in some some art gallery had drawn it and I found it’s meaning after several years in a manner I least expected to discover it.In my studio test at NID I drew this drawing and the interviewer asked me what it meant. I was speachless, I just told it was a road less taken.Well, on the worst day of my life as I call it, I saw this picture hanging in someone’s home.It was the picture of two mountains,and a long endless road,whose horizon can be seen between the two mountain peeks.That was exactly what I had drawn in that studio test that day and what I had seen in my childhood.I knew them exactly what to do then and I then started an unending journey on that road.I never know whats beyoned that horizon for me,I just see it between the two peaks and I keep walking towards it.

That day onwards till date, I have never fell endlessly in darkness.