All of us live in the age of escapism...
We walk, we stop... we talk, we stay mute... we interact, we restrain...
All of this because we want to stay in the state that gives us complacency or to avoid the state that may force us to rethink our premise...
Human beings are so structured perhaps that they constantly see the darkness around them...moving over and straining their eyes so persistently that they end up eluding the rays of light that filter through the blinds upon the windows of life...
You are perhaps so super conscious of having to grope that you tend to lose the recognition of realizing what exactly are you groping for. You may have touched upon the object of your pursuit but you are so single-mindedly focussed upon the task being not-so-easy that you leave it aside and move on in your mad race...It may sound weird but some of you actually like being in this state of self pity because it is the only one you feel there is...The world has been super unfair...so many tasks to do and so few people to do them for you...So what best to do is...stay grim and negative and always on the look-out for more troubles.
Whether you admit it or not, like it or fight it, you have convinced yourself of being strangulated in a dark tunnel...which is lighted intermittently by the dancing glares of the passing train...
The tunnel then as such, would jolt itself into action and vibrate into an animation of life, movement, flow, vibrancy as the train passes through...
And within seconds later, the tunnel as such, would also push itself deeper into anonymity, murky shadows, maddening silence, frustrating solitude, inching towards damnation...
Forever waiting for the light to ruffle the surface again...
Why can’t we learn to count our blessings?
Why can’t we move with the belief that things could have been worse?
Why can’t we imagine...what if I was the tunnel from which even these intermittent lights had turned their backs forever...that is to say the passage from where no trains ever pass through?
You have to stop cribbing and complaining...
There are often people around you who actually run after troubles to embrace them...
They feel if a day has passed off without worries...oh my god! Greater worries await in the pipeline...
They always find some person to feel sulky about or some situation to brood for...often because they have a sensitive mind attuned to others grievances...
But where does that leave us for our lives to be led as they should...
Who gains the grey hair, the restless mind and the fluttering heartbeats...?
We have to start realizing there is one life to live and we can and must not feel responsible and bowed down by things happening around us, within or outside the bounds of our control...
We have to take a deep breath every now and then to stop our heartbeats from jumping across the terrace to the high skies...
We have to learn to be happy with what we have and hopeful for what we don’t and never remorseful for what is lost and gone...
Life my friend is taking you on a journey over the cascading waves...
There would be highs as well as lows...sometimes the dips causing you to suffocate and the uplifts causing you to exhilarate...
But let the ride be smooth and unruffled...
The transitions natural and embraced...
Let us find our own lanterns to put all over the dark interiors of our tunnels...
So that train or no train....
Outside benevolence or forced disdain...
We continue to shine on with the light we have within...
Amen!
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