Journey

Greatest journeys are the ones that take you home. I have had many such journeys or rather voyages. Yes it could not be hidden long enough. One day everyone was gonna figure it out. But I did not want the biggest secret of my life to be revealed by some ugly grey matter inside the human skull. So I have spilled the beans. I am a sailor.
No this story is not about Pirates of carribean or Titanic, its about what I am. To put it in simple words, I lead a dual life. I have two lifes, two selves, two beings fused into one by the forces of my maverick living.
From dawn till dusk, east to west, north to south I have sailed to the four corners of the earth. And while riding high on the quintessential waves of my youth, I discovered my real self. Its ironical that the first time I acknowledged my inner being, I was inside the machinery space fixing engines. I still remember, my innner voice was competing with the noise of the reciprocating engine. Life was simple untill that day. My life till then was all about taking orders from seniors, teachers, bosses, girlfriends n every other tom-dick-harry-sally who can impose him/herself on me. Life was all about getting up, taking orders, doing what I could n leaving rest to god, getting scoulded/humiliated for my half-hearted efforts, cursing every one who was mean to me and then finally going to bed.
That day, one sentence from my innerself changed the meaning of living for me. I felt enlightened. Those profound words were enough to arouse my ego from a deep slumber of eternity. My timidness was all shaken up and stirred out. I was ready to take on the world. Suddenly impossible was nothing. Strange things happen but this was like someone had lit a bulb inside of me. The chained boy was set free which started evolving into a man. To put it in simple words I had a change in Paradigm.
The words were" Its not easy to be exceptional, but you were not born to be otherwise. So stop pitying and start living. No one can degrade you without your own consent and its your consent which hurts more than anything else."
And so I came home.