Wednesday, September 30, 2009

#$%&!?

Every now and then whenever you think life is perfect, it springs up a new surprise. And suddenly your perfect world comes crashing down and your mind gets infected with all the absurd thoughts that it could ever think. I don’t know if it happens with me or everyone else but I imagine that the worst thing will happen. But thankfully most of the times even if things could go wrong they generally don’t.
I have realized how things change quickly and how even after an eternity they remain the same. What do you think about the changes, bad or good, that happen in our lives? Are they consequences of our past actions (may be inactions) or are merely destiny? I think, we all are somehow responsible for our present conditions. But when the conditions are bad, we blame it on destiny or bad luck. Seriously, how many times have you thanked destiny, rather than yourself, for your success??? Destiny or luck can place you at the right place at the right time. But achieving your goal has to be your initiative.
Coming back to the surprises life throws at us, don’t you think if every thing were perfect life would be boring? If everything happened in a predestined way then human race wouldn’t have been as developed a species as it. Along with the surprises we have the required skill to deal with them.
The point of discussing all these things is that, I have been in these types of circumstances many times in my life. At the face of adversity, life seemed less colorful and the world a bitter place to live. Abilities have been questioned and shortcomings have been discovered. Choices made in the past, have tormented. Mind has been filled with doubts and hopelessness. But that is when I have remembered a character in “Shawsank’s Redemption” where he thinks that hope is probably the best thing in the world. My thoughts haven't been different before. And this time also its the same.

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