Friday night, a weekend after a long week at work (or lack of it). I was relaxing, aimlessly and nonchalantly browsing the TV - when I stumbled across a movie in one of the regional channels. I stopped switching and ended up seeing the movie till the end, as memories flashed in my mind like pictures of a book. The movie had released when I had jus finished my school. I had been to the movie with my best friend of my life. I still remember the way we planned the movie, the discussion we had after the movie while standing at the bus-stop to catch one for home.
Now 6 years later, we have travelled through the journey called TIME. Things are so different now, a lot of things have happened which I had least anticipated. I never really wanted any of the things I have now, but they have all happened. The only thing that has stood the test of time is our friendship. Only this remains the same, tho' we have travelled different roads, been through different places and met different people.
I just stopped to wonder at my past - 6 years. A week before the day we had seen the movie, both of us had appeared for a competitive exam, he made it, I dint. And this small result has shaped our lives in totally different ways. It landed me in a different college, took me thru' various different experiences, which I am sure I dint want then. I looked so helpless, but I travelled, for in this travel of time, u dont have the option to pause, think and play. There are no options of rewinding or forwarding. U meet a lot of people, so many of them, u wonder if it was really essential. Yet some of them make an impact, they stick on to you, or you stick on to them. Some permanently leave u, with ur choice or otherwise.
Now, as I retrospect, it looks like I wanted to climb a mountain, but for some reason or other, I have ended up swimming across a mighty ocean. Things have certainly not turned out the way I had wanted 6 years ago, but wait!!! Does this mean I have fallen in this journey of TIME? Not really. Looking back, TIME has taken me through a different set of experiences. And these have taught me a different set of lessons, which I now appreciate. I have not experienced the breathlessness at the mountain top, had I climbed it; but so what? I would'nt have appreciated the stillness of the mid sea, or the wavy waters near the shores had I gone for the mountains. In any case I have realized what I have seen and learnt, rather than fretting about what I have'nt. And this is what is so unique about the journey of TIME.
The important moral is to take stock of the journey u have had, look for the lessons the chapters of life TIME has taken you through, and plunge into the future where these lessons may hold value. There is no use brooding over the chapters of life, you wanted, but TIME didnt take you through. It is good to believe that you dint need those lessons. What you have is what you need. May be life is like a maze - there is a start and a finish. But there are many routes betwn them. At times, TIME gives you the privilege of choosing the route, at times it chooses them for you. It is smart to use the opportunities when TIME gives you the privilege of choosing the route rather than losing the opportunities thinking of times when TIME chose the route for you.
With this belief, I still travel in the journey of TIME, meeting new people, reading new chapters of my life, learning the lessons, looking out for the opportunity when TIME would give me the choice of the route. I would eventually have it ONE DAY.
Now 6 years later, we have travelled through the journey called TIME. Things are so different now, a lot of things have happened which I had least anticipated. I never really wanted any of the things I have now, but they have all happened. The only thing that has stood the test of time is our friendship. Only this remains the same, tho' we have travelled different roads, been through different places and met different people.
I just stopped to wonder at my past - 6 years. A week before the day we had seen the movie, both of us had appeared for a competitive exam, he made it, I dint. And this small result has shaped our lives in totally different ways. It landed me in a different college, took me thru' various different experiences, which I am sure I dint want then. I looked so helpless, but I travelled, for in this travel of time, u dont have the option to pause, think and play. There are no options of rewinding or forwarding. U meet a lot of people, so many of them, u wonder if it was really essential. Yet some of them make an impact, they stick on to you, or you stick on to them. Some permanently leave u, with ur choice or otherwise.
Now, as I retrospect, it looks like I wanted to climb a mountain, but for some reason or other, I have ended up swimming across a mighty ocean. Things have certainly not turned out the way I had wanted 6 years ago, but wait!!! Does this mean I have fallen in this journey of TIME? Not really. Looking back, TIME has taken me through a different set of experiences. And these have taught me a different set of lessons, which I now appreciate. I have not experienced the breathlessness at the mountain top, had I climbed it; but so what? I would'nt have appreciated the stillness of the mid sea, or the wavy waters near the shores had I gone for the mountains. In any case I have realized what I have seen and learnt, rather than fretting about what I have'nt. And this is what is so unique about the journey of TIME.
The important moral is to take stock of the journey u have had, look for the lessons the chapters of life TIME has taken you through, and plunge into the future where these lessons may hold value. There is no use brooding over the chapters of life, you wanted, but TIME didnt take you through. It is good to believe that you dint need those lessons. What you have is what you need. May be life is like a maze - there is a start and a finish. But there are many routes betwn them. At times, TIME gives you the privilege of choosing the route, at times it chooses them for you. It is smart to use the opportunities when TIME gives you the privilege of choosing the route rather than losing the opportunities thinking of times when TIME chose the route for you.
With this belief, I still travel in the journey of TIME, meeting new people, reading new chapters of my life, learning the lessons, looking out for the opportunity when TIME would give me the choice of the route. I would eventually have it ONE DAY.
Machi, You know what, if you make a wrong decision in the journey called life, you have necessarily lost something. May be you can compensate for that in the course correction, but the bottomline is .....
ReplyDeleteYeah :P, I hv written on this in my next post, with sarcasm tho'
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