A Confidence??

I was returning home from office after a hectic day. Thought a ride in rickshaw back home might refresh my mind and help me forget the bad day that I had. I was lost in my thoughts when suddenly I noticed the rickshaw puller had increased his pace and paddling real hard to overcome a bus which seemed unaware of the unknown new competitor it had just by its side. Knowing fully well he cannot overcome the gigantic bus which was not only bigger in size but also in many other aspects (speed, I should say dragon power rather than horse power etc), still then he didn't give up. That amused me. How many times in our life have we had the eagerness and zeal to go for something that seemed like a Herculean task that too to be accomplished within a short span of time in a life so short in itself… most of the time we give up before we start and in turn think of the possible excuses and justifications that would pacify our numerous inner questions and in the end feebly manage to prove that we are not escapists or that we did not try our best just that there wasn’t much we could have done - sort of shoulder-shrugging with a What-Can-I-Do Not-In-My-Hands Destiny-Can’t-be-Changed expression...

Returning back to reality, I was eager to know what would happen in the end… Then came a turn in the road, the bus as usual oblivious of its surroundings or the entities affected by it went on smoothly in its own rhythm. But our over-enthusiastic fighter never stopped trying. Ultimately, the bus went away smoothly in its own way and our relentless worker slowed down his speed to catch some breath…After some time; he carried on leisurely as if he was one happy man with a pleasant paunch who is strolling in the park with his dog in the evening without a single worry in his life…

I smiled … I wondered the same thing could be related to our lives too. The bus, seemingly big and intimidating, is the small/big problems that we face in our lives. I said small or big because it depends on us how we choose to view and categorize our difficult times. And the attitude of our ever-tireless hero to that of a common man’s thinking. Difficulties in life are inevitable and in fact in a way make our lives colourful and worthwhile. We panic when we face any problem in life, and we are so perturbed by its very presence that we don’t bother to calmly think and believe that this shall pass too. We are just in a haste to get rid of it as soon as possible without pausing to think that it doesn’t deserve the attention that it enjoys. The more we try to get rid of it by overtaking it, the more we see it moving in parallel with our lives; kind of a vicious circle. Had we paused and let it pass, or should I say “put the glass down rather than continue holding it high in the air till your arm falls off”, things could have been more relaxed and easily solved.

Whoever said don’t sit idle was perhaps himself paddling away to glory and trying to solve his perpetual problems his entire life. In fact I would say sometimes we should sit idle and enjoy as life passes by. A motion picture is best watched when u are static and relaxed coz the movie will end anyhow. Let time do its job…Let time heal.

Too often, we are so busy building a career/ life by memorizing a book, reading financial magazines or some formulae or doing exactly what the society has been doing for ages or wants us to do, we miss out on assessing and speculating these small aspects of life which gives us a chance to think beyond what we see…go beyond that definite shape and size and colour, perhaps add a new definition or add a new dimension to an entirely seamless entity …sometimes life teaches you more when you are out on the streets or watching a child play or clouds moving subtly in the sky rather than sitting in the stuffy AC rooms in front of a dead computer whose control is in our hands…

Don’t you think so??