Last
evening, I heard this song “Tujse Naaraaz
Nahi Zindagi…” from Masoom (1983,
Shekar Kapur, R.D.Burman, Gulzar, Anoop Ghoshal). It’s a beautiful, soulful
song! A line in it, “…jeene ke liye socha
hi nahin, dard sambhalne honge…”, holds the key to why we often struggle
with Life! The line means, “I never thought I have to deal with/manage pain to
live Life!” Interesting, isn’t it? Almost all of us have encountered pain__and
resultantly suffering__without preparation. As kids, our painful moments would
be anchored and cushioned under the protective care of our parents. But when we
step into adult Life, our first experience socks us. And the reason why we are
numbed by the first episode of pain in our independent lives is that we have never
been educated on Life in our early years. We haven’t been told that:
- Life never guarantees any fair-play
- Life will keep on happening to us – no matter what we want or expect
- Pain in Life is inevitable
- The only way to be happy in Life is to decide to be happy – no matter what!
Had we been exposed to these truisms about Life,
as much as we have been introduced to Math, Science, History, Geography and the
languages, perhaps, we would have been better prepared for Life.
Nevertheless, it is not too late either. You
can make a beginning now by deciding to be happy!
Once
you make that decision, make sure nothing comes in its way. You are standing on
the threshold of happiness, knocking on the door to open. After much knocking
you will realize, much to your amazement, that the door was always open. All
you had to do was to DECIDE to push it, than keep knocking on it, for you to
enter the kingdom of happiness. This is what you are doing with your Life too. You
are choosing NOT to be happy. Being happy means being so despite your
circumstances. But you choose to stand on that threshold and hope that your
circumstance will change and THEN you will be happy. How will you? If you can’t
be happy with what you have, with what is, with what you can see, with your
present, what are the chances you will be happy with what you may get, in a
future that you can’t see yet?
So,
stop running from pillar to post, stop the procrastination, stop knocking, just
decide. Your one decision can change your Life!
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