Life’s pretty amazing! It may not always give
you what you want, but none of what you need is ever denied!
This
is true for each one of us. Irrespective of who we are and what we are going
through.
A
lot has been talked, in the past week, about Prithvi Shaw, the 15-year-old
batting prodigy from Mumbai. There have been comparisons to Sachin Tendulkar’s
brilliance and origins as Shaw amassed a mind-boggling 546 runs off 330 balls
in the Harris Shield tournament. The media has gone ga-ga over this boy wonder. But one story in The New Indian Express yesterday, by sports writer Sandip G, caught
my attention. It talked about Shaw’s background.
Sandip
wrote about Prithvi Shaw: “His mother
died when he was four. Soon, his father, Pankaj, a small-time readymade garment
retailer, fell on hard times. By this time though, Prithvi was already regaling
his neighbors with his batting. ‘Even when he was only six, he used to play
better than bigger boys. Whenever he used to bat, neighbors used to flock to
the maidan,’ recollected his father Pankaj, who still escorts him to and from
Bandra. But the more Prithvi’s talent manifested, the tougher his father found it
to sustain his son’s ambitions. ‘I was about to close down my business and I
didn’t even have money to buy him a bat. I didn’t know what to do,’ Prithvi’s
father said. Luckily though, former English county cricketer Julian Wood
chanced upon him and convinced the (local) MIG Club to induct him. Three years
later, former Indian spinner Nilesh Kulkarni spotted him and signed him up for
his sports management firm for Rs 3 lakh a year. Another well-wisher gifted him
an apartment in Santa Cruz.”
Shaw’s
story reinforces a truism about Life. Not knowing what to do in Life, as Pankaj
Shaw has confessed, is a great state to be in! That let-go is what Life
requires from you in order for it to give you what you need. I have found this
particularly true in my Life. Whenever I have reached a state of being
clueless, and helpless, I have always found people walking into my Life, on
their own at most times, and offering to support me and my family. One moment I
would see no way ahead in a Life-and-death situation. My Life would be
surrounded by total darkness. And in the next moment, I have found myself soaked
in abundance and the milk of human kindness. This has happened again and again
and again. When I connect the dots backward, as Steve Jobs famously said, I
have found that Life gives you all that you need, when you let go! I have
realized that miracles happen to you not because you pray hard or your faith is
stronger but they happen because at one level you are a miracle yourself and,
at another level, you need a miracle to move forward in Life!
It’s a beautiful Life really. You
and I make it miserable by wanting it to be different from what it is. Drop all
your wanting. It’s perfectly alright to not know what to do with your Life or
in it! Let go! And, magically, you will find that Life manifests the right
people, the right connections, the right situations, which will take you onward,
giving you all that you need! You cannot live your entire lifetime in one
nanosecond or moment. Life’s moves from moment to moment. Living Life, one
moment at a time, savoring what you have, without question, without resistance,
will always lead you to whatever you need.
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