Jan 9, 2026 Languages : English | ಕನ್ನಡ

Life Is Strange: A Reflection on Living in the Now and Letting Go

Life is strange, not to puzzle you, but to remind you — to slow down and give, to love, and to live before it’s a memory. Life Is Strange: it is about what we learn over time.

Life Is Strange: A Reflection on Living in the Now and Letting Go
Life Is Strange: A Reflection on Living in the Now and Letting Go

Life is strange

And this is true, we walk in with nothing, fight for everything, and leave with nothing. But somewhere in the middle we lose this simple fact and have infinite expectations. How is it that we can take what we did pray for at times in the past and even compare it to what everyone else thought it should make us have and feel that we have nothing.

We chase dreams after dreams and dream again and we always dream — then decide that the journey was the treasure. Today is everything for us, and it’s strange to be alive — we are afraid of tomorrow but forget to live today. We do everything in our power to obtain others’ acceptance, stop caring to notice ourselves, so much more keen to have all of these thoughts and experiences to fill us with bliss in the land we live in as though it were all there was, waiting, and that there was always something inside us.

We fear change, in a way life is strange about because change is the only constant we will ever know, and this fear is what we will have. We cannot be happy; not realizing until we learn to let go that happiness happens. Life is strange when we don’t enjoy what we have until it is gone.

We want to achieve success without peace of mind, we judge others without understanding their pains and rush our way up to adulthood – then fall back down, day in, day out into some era of simpler lives. We are strange in our life when we look for other people’s love before loving ourselves.

We put off doing so until we have the right moment and we don’t even know the right moment is right now. We fear failure, knowing that by failing failure teaches things success never teaches. Life is strange, in how we believe money will resolve our issues then discover that money causes new ones.

We make sure everything happens and that we have control over them, but other miracles take place in life when we release our control. We love to think life is strange, think the grass is greener on the other side of the road, think everyone’s been there for ages now till now, and then suddenly we realize, “The grass is the same green everywhere.” We want to find others’ answers, forgetting that the best answers naturally are found somewhere inside.

We live in the future indefinitely, but we lose sight of living in the now — which turns life into this strange thing. We forget people in the pursuit of stuff. We too often are so busy trying to get ahead that we lack time in the process. That life we don’t fully comprehend or flee from is so foreign and so surreal, we seem to forget that mistakes are what make our lives a good life, we do not understand the things that cause the most mistakes to be made in our lives. Life feels strange — maybe that is the beauty of it. And maybe that secret, then, is not to understand life deeply, but to live life to the fullest. Remain blessed ❤️