The IIT story...

I wish the world was a smaller place,
The poles, not so distant,
Boundaries, undefined.

I wish the world was a smaller place,
The peaks, not so unassailable,
Depths, less frightful.

I wish the world was a smaller place,
The places, not so asunder,
Distances, surmountable.

I wish the world was a smaller place,
The people, not so lost,
Desires, realizable.

I wish the world was a smaller place, for its magnitude frightens me now. Its fickle nature, haunts me. Far removed from comfort, into the concrete wilderness that we roam, stuck in a cycle of everyday grind, instilled with flickering hope and ever dwindling courage to carry on, further and further, till there is nothing left to fight for, into the darkness, where not a morsel of courage remains, but only the dying embers of the long forgotten hope, that one day, it will all be worth it.

Was it worth it, is it ever worth it?

Our lives, etched with sacrifice, for a glorious higher purpose, that we never realize. Maybe we had everything, which we deemed insubstantial, and it our quest to substantiate ourselves, we end up having nothing. The magnitude and the obscurity of the world around us pushes us on, and it will forever continue to do so.

I wish the world was a smaller place,
Our souls, not so discontented,
Lives, tranquil.

I wish...