Chewing gum

Apologies for making ketan-daily into weekly. I wasn't well for a couple of days.
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I was just scribbling on my notebook and I drew the above illustration. I was chewing a chewing gum and thought, what if we consider life as a chewing gum? The nonsense illustration above states that the art sense inside me is still alive.

Things in our lives are comparable to a chewing gum, considering the fact that things are sweet and luscious at first and gradually lose attraction, same as a chewing gum. Chewing relationships is different than chewing materialistic things. When you chew anything like an ipod, mobile phone, computer, clothes, etc. you gulp the juices by boasting yourself up through showing off to your friends, relatives, and other people prone to jealousy from your show off, and gradually your interest in them decreases and you search for a new and better chewing gum with more different and luscious flavours.

If we take relationships, for instance between a man and a woman, its like a chewing gum with multiple flavours. Those can be categorised as trust, devotion, attraction, sacrifice, etc. Some chew it hard, gulp the juices, throw the chewing gum and buy a new, fresh one. Some take their time enjoying the taste, blowing a balloon out of it and at times chewing multiple gums at once in an attempt to make a big balloon. These kind of chewing gums usually don't have all the flavours and hence don't last for a long time.

Our school and college life, initially, is an ambrosial chewing gum but as years pass on, the taste vanishes and we spit it for a degree or certificate. After going into the professional world we recall the taste of it and wish if we had one of that kind again.