I once read on FB, a girl’s note on Paris, she wrote that she has always wanted to be in Paris but was scared at the same time, what if it wasn’t as good as it promised, what if she was disappointed because it didn’t meet her ‘high’ expectations. It didn’t make much sense to me that day. But today, I find myself in the same shoes, torn apart between conflicting emotions, looking forward to so many things and at the same time dreading that those things will come to an end in sometime. Aah, if only it were in my hands to hold time and to freeze moments.
Life is essentially a series of fleeting emotions, you may be high one moment and just the next one, down in the dumps. You may chase things for a lifetime only to realize on achieving them that you never wanted them. Many a time, you just tend to ignore the things you have at hand in pursuit of things that are out of reach, years later you realize your follies. You may have a thousand gifts but you still crave for the one thing that you somehow missed out on and that surprisingly weighs down the other so many good things around you – someone explained it mathematically – anything, however big or small, multiplied by zero will result in a zero! Cannot agree more!
The only one way to come out of such dilemmas, in my opinion, is to find one real passion or thing of interest in life. If one minor defeat can create a major void in your life, then won’t there exist one such achievement or joy that will outweigh all your other problems or disappointments in life? If you can find an answer to this question, if you can discover that one goal for yourself, if you can pursue it like Arjuna eyed the fish’s eye, you will be invincible!
