Querencia

Life is a lot like a Bull Fight. You are happy in a cage that has been built around you. You may or may not be aware about the cage, but once you are, you cannot get it out of your mind. There is always someone sitting on top trying to use you. In a bull fight it’s the rider. In life, it’s everybody.

The difference comes once you get a chance to get out of your cage. Unlike the bull, most choose not to. Here is where one must take inspiration from the bull. The Bulls runs out, and realises who is on top. That’s when he decides to break free of his bonds and topple the rider. If only, we humans were just as smart. Evolution has killed the wild instinct we had.

Once the bull topples the rider is again when the story diverges. This is the part where most humans outsmart the bull. Querencia is the place in the ring where a bull feels safe. It is the place where he looks to reach, a place where he cannot be harmed. Every human has a Querencia too. It could be his home, the arms of his loved one , his family , a place in the mountains, a bike ride or anything. Most humans once they break free, take a leap of faith. But there are still quite a few who get stuck in their Querencia.

Life is unpredictable and one knows not what happens next. Every human has a choice to stick to his safe spot or rather stay in the cage. But those who do manage to get out, know what it feels like to wander under the free skies, to sail through uncharted waters, to fly over the mighty mountains.

Ofcourse I am being poetic, but to discover new oceans, you have to lose site of the shore.