THOUGHT OF THE DAY-15

You are the king of your decisions but slave of their outcomes.

RUN YOUR RACE

Till college, the life is predefined. Pre-school, school and then college. It’s a foundation for the life ahead. After college, when the world around us seems to change, the people who are exactly like us and with us all the time, change.

When I saw the world around me change, I didn’t want to know whether it’s the right way or not, I just wanted to imitate the world as I was preparing for it for so long. So, I close my eyes and get into the rut. I knew, it’s a rat race for life, but if all other rats can happily go with it, so can I.

For a while the journey seemed smooth and enjoyable with interactions with fellow travelers until we reached a speed breaker. Everyone had a jerk but moved on with the race. I too had a jerk and was disturbed by it. But if the world can move on, so can I.

I continued the journey ahead, but this time couldn’t close my eyes. I was surprised with how others were able to move on and disappointed with myself but decided to pretend to be the same. And so the journey furthered, interactions decreased and monotony increased.

After a long while we reached a huge puddle. Everyone else jumped easily with no second thought whereas I got stuck with my eyes open. I knew I had to move on, go ahead, jump into it and cross it or else I’ll be lonely on this side of the puddle.So this time I closed my eyes and attempted the jump but my mind and heart didn’t shut. Being there was painful, I cried and begged to god to help me cross the puddle but nothing helped. I sat there and saw the other slot of travelers crossing the puddle and continuing the journey. I can’t give up, I thought. So I kept on trying but every time I tried harder, I failed. I was getting weakened from within.

Finally I gave up and stopped trying. As I emptied my tear tank and made peace with the situation, darkness started disappearing. Earlier all I saw was the puddle trouble, the successful travelers surpassing it and the road ahead, now I was opening my eyes to the trees around, the river gushing by and the birds chirping. My loneliness was turning into aloneness. I started enjoying being all by myself in that lovely surrounding.
Since then being alone, I started interacting with myself, defined myself, my passions, my principles and my dreams. And then from nowhere I saw a trail, dusty, uneven and broken unlike the road my fellow travelers were on. But it looked very less trodden; I sat by its side and pondered for a while. Before I start my journey I need to face few thoughts wandering in my mind.
Success might be slow, world will put me to compare with my fellowmen, luxuries might be few, struggle might be prolonged and the journey might be lonesome. Do I still want to move on?
To it, I answer after a while –

- Success will be when I succeed to my journey ahead, step by step and not when I defeat my neighbor.
- Comparison will exist even when I run the rat race, I just need to put it off my mind.
- Luxuries are important but for the mind, body or soul is what I get to decide.
- Struggle will put me down at times but keep me alive to strive for betterment.
- It’s no use being in crowd if my conscience disappears. I better be content and alone.
I dusted myself and got onto the trail as I knew now that it might take me in different direction but it’s exactly what I want. Since then I am on my trail exploring it my way.

LIFE GIVES EVERYONE SIMILAR RUNWAYS TO TAKE OFF FOR THE JOURNEY BUT THE SKY IS BROAD AND YOU NEED TO MAKE YOUR OWN PERSONAL TRAILS TO REACH YOUR PERSONAL DESTINY.

The Fall

What do we do when something goes against our wish??

Some of us cry, some of us fight, some crib, some regret and some just sadly let it go.

Remember when we were learning to ride bike. The first fall never disappoints us because we knew, we are to fall; we are learning. The pain of failure ascends with every fall till the time when we start assuming may be we are doomed to fall and then the falls stop bothering. We stop concentrating at the weaknesses which make us fall every time as we accepted it as inevitable. We know we are going to fall whether we take precautions or not because we digested the thought of being destined to fall.

We just get on the bike and carry on and to our surprise we carry on without the falls.

The very basic lesson that life teaches us in the very beginning of our journey is never underlined and hence we keep on crying, nagging, cribbing and begging for various falls we face in life, when there is this simple rule of nature -

THE RAIN THAT COLLECTS UP THERE IN THE CLOUDS,
RUNS OFF THE ROOF, FLOODS THE GROUNDS,
AND HITS THE DRAINS
JUST TO RISE BACK UP TO MAKE THE RAINS...