Between Arrival and Departure (Danny C. Sillada)

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”

- Anais Nin

That gnawing, remote feeling of parting from someone close is more intense and haunting than the romantic encounter between two people. It is this lingering convulsion of loss when one begins to ruminate how a cherished encounter winds up to a rancorous end. Perhaps, if one had the capability to change the course of time, he or she would go back to the path where all the extraordinary encounters converge and happen.

But no one had the power to revert the irreversible certainty of departure from arrival and neither one could change or alter the inevitable processes and forces of nature.

Everything arrives and departs at a particular time and space of its respective existence. The rising and setting of the sun, for instance, paves the way for the coming of nightfall in the same manner, as dawn departs at the bursting of morning light from the eastern horizon.

 

Everything is subject to the tedious rhythms of coming and leaving, of entrance and exit, of birthing and dying, of hello and good bye... But in between these invincible rhythms, something ineffable takes place, something transcendent and indispensable than the reality of arrival and departure.

If only one could seize and live that ineffable in-between, then all arrivals and departures would conflate into a single entity of all that there is and what is to come. Everything becomes a defining moment of all encounters where beginning and ending are no longer consequential.

Departure becomes an encounter and arrival becomes the completion of a particular departure. One can find joy even in sadness, victory in defeat, kindness in ruthlessness, love in hatred, and so on and so forth...

And when that happens, utopia or heaven is no longer a distant aspiration to be dreamt and cherished, but an inch away from the human touch!

© Danny C. Sillada

Comments

[Robert]

Nicely expressed.

[Bryan]

This is fantastic.