Before you start reading this post, kindly recollect and remember of the most important and dearest THING in your life. One THING, which is more important than your own life, or one thing which if you loose, would certainly bring tears to your eyes. Once you have done that, please read on.....
What is the reason of our limitations? The fact that ‘We Don’t” and not “We can’t”
It actually doesn’t matter how much we have, but what really matters is what we can do with what we have. We cannot do much to change what we have, but we can certainly change the way we use what we have. In short, a pawn, if used well, will become the queen.
I would like to start with a real life experience. When I was allowed to get the car from home the first time, I was really very excited. The morning, I was scheduled to take the car all alone to Gurgaon, my dad first handed over the keys, then a bag with all necessary documents, including my driving license which he asked from me a day before, and followed it up with a long hug and a kiss on my cheeks.
I thanked him with a kiss and I was out with my dad’s auto baby. As I entered Delhi, hardly 100Kms from my place, I hit a traffic police motorcycle. I was safe, but the mudguard of the car was dented. I was consumed with guilt, “What will I tell him? Will he ever give me car again?” Thoughts and feelings ran amok. The police man was quick to ask for license and papers of the car. My hands still shivering, I reached for the pouch that my dad had given me. With tears in my heart, as I picked the license from the pouch, I noticed a hand written note on it in my dad’s handwriting, “Son! In case of an accident or breaking of rules, please remember, it is YOU that I love and not the car. Loving you”
Blessed are those people who have understood that they should be loving people and using things, and not using people and loving things.
A scratch on the car makes our blood pressure go up… but we don’t seem to mind a scratch in our heart. I know of a human who broke a precious showpiece intentionally by throwing it on the floor and then remarked, “For 20 years it has been giving me tension – if it breaks, if it falls down… I thought it was time to show who the real boss is and to gain some peace of mind.” I know of a person who gave party because he broke up with his dear girlfriend. He explained, “Though the relationship is completed screwed up, I learnt some lessons of life and now am free to lead a hassle free and peaceful life.” I know one more man who gave a party because his car was rammed and jammed in an accident. He explained, “Though the car is completely damaged, nothing happened to me, who was inside the car. Now that I am fine, I can buy another car, but if the car was intact and I was gone, it wouldn’t have made much sense.”
Our life began with a 100Rs toy car. When it broke we cried. Then we upgraded ourselves to a 2000Rs remote control car. When that got damaged, we wept. Then we got a 50000Rs bike, followed by a 4 lakh car, after that the 18 lakh SUV…… and everytime something happened to the machine, whether a scratch, a dent, or any malfunction, the mercury of our tensions and worries went up. All in all, it seems, our toys have grown, but we haven’t. What we cry for has changed, but the crying is still on. Just that our crying is more sophisticated now. It was many new names like anger, disappointment, frustration, stress, revenge, anxiety, etc…..
Toys are there to entertain us. Toys have only one purpose, to be useful to us. From your house, to your sofa, to your bike and everything else…. Everything exists to make your life more comfortable, and that is the point we miss on.
WE are bigger that every THING we own. WE are more precious that every THING we possess. WE are more important than every THING that has come in our life.
A toy is just a toy. Buy toys. Buy more and more toys. But give them their rightful place. They are just there to be useful to us, to make our life more comfortable and to entertain us. I would recommend you not to ever waste another drop of your precious tears for a toy, no matter how dear the toy may be to you.
After all, YOU are the dearest of them all. :)
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This is a pretty meaningful article that I read in quite sometime, which coerced me to comment even though I'm too lazy to comment on someone else's blog. :-)
ReplyDeleteboss u hold d ryt thread of human psychology....
ReplyDeletedis is sumthing which everybody knws very well but still we do dis to all we love d most....we love our TOYS so much dat we actually start shouting and crying like a 2 years old kid....even sumtyms kids are better than us in dis context.....most f d tyms dey understand but we dont....newaz...we r human...we nt gonna change...people, even after reading this, will follow the tradition.. :)
LAST BUT NOT D LEAST:::: LOVELY PIECE OF WRITING
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thanks people... :) thanks for such comments.
ReplyDelete@vishal: even if we change ourselves slightly, the purpose is solved. Changes come from small little actions. :)
As the first line of this post goes - The fact that ‘We Don’t” and not “We can’t” And i wrote this line for this specific reason.. that we can :)
@ Lovish : Thanks bro.. I am honored :)
beautifully written n explained...........
ReplyDeletebut did uncle really left that note for u!!!!!!!! n yes who were 'WE' in those last line
i guess u were talking abt urself only na..........
hehe.........but serioulsy this is really gud!!!! but the problem is that we r human being .............we r always enchanted by materialistic pleasure n starts clinging to them.
hey... thanks for the compliments :) ab pata nahi yaar lagta hai unhe pata tha what i d feel if i bang the car :P n 'we' means hum sab..... :P
ReplyDeleterightly said we are human beings... bt atleast we can try to control those emotions... though i knw it is very difficult when u face tough conditions... bt still... probably even if we are able to make 2% diff in our attitude.. it d be 'better' than previous :)