One of my very favourite lines, cast to summarize mine and a majority of human life. Every time I fail to break the jinx, I get back to admiring the everlasting validity of its prophecy.
From Tagore's, 'The Postmaster':
"Alas for our foolish human nature! Its fond mistakes are persistent. The dictates of reason take a long time to assert their own sway. The surest proofs meanwhile are disbelieved. False hope is clung to with all one's might and main, till a day comes when it has sucked the heart dry and it forcibly breaks through its bonds and departs. After that comes the misery of awakening, and then once again the longing to get back into the maze of the same mistakes."
Once I'm done with admiring, I go back to challenging it and thus, validating it in an ironical way!
From Tagore's, 'The Postmaster':
"Alas for our foolish human nature! Its fond mistakes are persistent. The dictates of reason take a long time to assert their own sway. The surest proofs meanwhile are disbelieved. False hope is clung to with all one's might and main, till a day comes when it has sucked the heart dry and it forcibly breaks through its bonds and departs. After that comes the misery of awakening, and then once again the longing to get back into the maze of the same mistakes."
Once I'm done with admiring, I go back to challenging it and thus, validating it in an ironical way!
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