Life After MH370 Quotes

“Family ties become stronger because they are
invested in rather than by making demands out of a sense of entitlement.”
― K.S. Narendran, Life After MH370: Journeying Through a Void

“Every retelling of a story is never the same since the storyteller seldom remains frozen or impervious to new facts and frames. What remains an exciting
prospect is revisiting this story once again after some time has elapsed, through the refreshed lens of a “newer” me, who, in a paradoxical twist, will be an
“older” me. Recall Carl Jung, who said: ‘The past is as uncertain as the future’.”
― K.S. Narendran, Life After MH370: Journeying Through a Void

“It is not really letting go of the past that is the problem. It is the coming to terms with letting go of a possible future that will never be. That is the struggle. ..... To let go of the past, you must let go of the future and live in the present.”
― K.S. Narendran, Life After MH370: Journeying Through a Void

“Nursing anger over a prolonged period ultimately corrodes the soul.”
― K.S. Narendran, Life After MH370: Journeying Through a Void

“One must find solace and make one’s peace in
solitude.”
― K.S. Narendran, Life After MH370: Journeying Through a Void

“In life, some gifts come a little ahead of time, tantalizing with promise. The recipient clings on to them lest they be lost or taken away, a sterile possessiveness when there is no real readiness or wherewithal to savor them.”
― K.S. Narendran, Life After MH370: Journeying Through a Void

“(C)elebration and mourning were essentially two sides of the same coin.... mourning is a collective process that celebrates the life of one who has gone, and gives a vocabulary to the legacy that lives on. In this process, there is sadness, joy, and celebration, all in good measure.”
― K.S. Narendran, Life After MH370: Journeying Through a Void

“Memory, then, is a companion (or a crutch) that keeps alive the notion of the erstwhile unity or wholeness till I discover a new location to re-anchor myself, a new relationship with memory itself, with all people and things.”
― K.S. Narendran, Life After MH370: Journeying Through a Void

“In a relationship, there is union and unanimity. There is also a tautness and tension that is creative and energizing, where one remains a foil for the other as a
way to uncover common ground or an expanded set of perspectives (and choices). Space is experienced in both, but differently. When this tension is taken
away, something within collapses. There is only the experience of a void, an emptiness. Filling it up feels phony, and letting it remain is excruciating.”
― K.S. Narendran, Life After MH370: Journeying Through a Void

“(T)here are compensations: that something comes to life even as we lose known part of our aliveness, and that gifts unacknowledged or not graced thus far, will emerge to take the place of those that have become inaccessible.”
― K.S. Narendran, Life After MH370: Journeying Through a Void