I always took "Zindagi Gulzar Hai" (the term, not the show) as life is a garden signifying the beauty.

But a random realization hit me today.

Zindagi Gulzar Hai actually means like a garden full of an array of plants, some that are more pleasing to the eye than the others, some laced with poisons while others dipped in captivating scents and between everything the thorns too...life really is a garden.

They all bloom from the same soil and yet not all have the same fate and that is life for all of us and then each one of us. Things are never the same. But we still think of beauty when we hear or read the word, perhaps because we choose to perceive only that.

Somehow we expect the same from life. What we forget is, everything in a garden blooming is bound to wilt someday. And perhaps some gardens will always be more fertile than others, you could artificially add fertilizers but that too ruins the crops in another way.

Life is a garden but it cannot always he the same as others or the most beautiful. And there's really not a lot we can do but it never means we should stop trying. It's not easy to convince yourself to still keep going. But there really is no other way.

You can either you to walk away and watch everything wilt because you made that choice. Or you can keep trying to be a good gardener and hope the flowers bloom for as long as they can, until they too meet their fate.

I always hated the term Zindagi Gulzar Hai because I pictured it as a beautiful representation I just couldn't associate to on a personal level. But I guess I just never thought about how even a garden isn't perfect and eternal.

That was unnecessary but then again most things I say are. Perks of being an overthinker.

Alternatively, Muneeza sums up the other theory in a much more satisfying way. Inner me finds her words quite enlightening. https://twitter.com/kitessuga/status/1322596218858622977?s=19