Sunshine

Every time I try to peep into my future I fail to see beyond the blurred picture of my own imagination which lies far from truth. Ever tried prophesying the next hour of your life? We take for granted our imagination and carry on with our chores expecting what we expect to happen. One untoward incident and we realize how helpless we are at the hands of fate. How we wish just for a hint of the future. And in the pursuit there comes numerology, astrology, palmistry and all those sciences without any basis but strong believe to be true.





Every moment comes with an uncertainty of its follower. This uncertainty forms the base of all emotions - surprise, shock, joy, grief et al and that’s the beauty of life… enigmatic, perplexing, and equivocal yet filled with curiosity and anxiety.

Like a dot we stand ignorant. The past is known so is the present but future lies in the oblivion. For the sake of realization just stand still for a moment where you are and think of the present… think of questions like what brought you here to this point? What are you doing at this point? Answers to these will answer the uncertainty of what will you do from this point. But is the answer the exact thing you are going to do? There may come a thousand options as alternative to what you think.

Consider yourself as a dot in a blank sheet of paper… what do you see? In the vicinity of your existence there are certain glimpses of possibilities to go. Try seeing beyond these glimpses and you will find thousand oceans – vast and void.

Uncertain” - that’s what I have defined life to be. Expectations and hopes beget out of this uncertainty. As I had said the human emotions arise out of the result of this. Often I have come across freinds claiming to be free of the mire of hopes and expectations.

This freedom gives them happiness- the power to face the “uncertainties”. As they say any broken hopes give you grief. Logical enough to conclude there shouldn’t be any hopes…

let things come and let people accept them with open arms. Acceptance impregnates tolerance in you. Tolerance gives you power.

To expect is human and to be human is to be natural. Any deviation to nature isn’t a great idea. When I say life is a dot and the future is uncertain I don’t say the uncertainties shouldn’t be expected.

To sail through the vast ocean a ship needs wind. The dot is the ship. The dot is you. Stop the expectations and you will lose your wind.

Where will you sail then? One fine day the ocean will swallow you… this isn’t why you were born for.

A passive life is no life. When you make your eyes see beyond the horizon you might find a direction to move. There will be few dots here and there to give you a goal. It’s true that your vision can turn out to be a mirage… the line you draw towards a goal may prove futile.

You may have to revert back or might have come a full circle to where you were. You meet what you fear… Disappointment! Nevertheless there is the silver lining… you are no more a dot!

There has been an extension to you to form a line – a knowledge line. You know a wrong path you would better avoid henceforth. You know to sail in the ocean. See the other side of the coin. You reach your goal and it wasn’t a mirage. The journey wasn’t futile. You are happy now…

more happy than you would have been as a dot without direction. The line you have drawn is still a knowledge line. You know the right path now. You know how to sail in the ocean and you know what your worth is. Either way it’s a win situation. So why fear disappointment when the prize is always yours.

As you grow from a mere dot the ocean around you grows too and in a much bigger scale. You turn down to a dot again… seeking ways to proceed, expecting certain things and viewing the ever growing ever vast ocean.

Life will continue to be a dot… it’s on you to keep the hopes and expectations on and keep traveling.

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