I Wish..... From the bottom of my heart !

           I vividly remember a comment that my Dad made when I was very young. He told me, "if you want something real bad, from the bottom of your heart, then no one can stop you from getting it, only you need to have a very deep desire for it". At an age where the deepest of desires were wanting a chocolate or a new frock which I got without much effort I thought that it were really true. But as my cerebral acuity grew, I started finding that it wasn't true at all. The first experience I had was when my German Shepherd fell ill and I prayed desperately, wishing from the deepest hollow of my heart for him to recover but in vain. He died the same evening. That day I questioned the statement that my Dad had made long ago. It kept coming to me again and again yet I didn't dare to ask him.

           After a decade, during my inter days, as I pondered over it again I thought that perhaps I was told so to drive home the importance of hard work. That I did flawlessly but just for the heck of it. I never had the deep desire to get myself to the narrow range of three digits. yet I ended up with something that I hadn't even dreamt of. That day I made up mind thinking that the opposite seemed to work for me which I believe in partially even now. I changed the statement to suit my experiences, "if you are obsessed with something, it will never cross your way. Don't think about it and even before you realize, it is within your immediate reach and all you have to do is take a little leap."

              

          The reason why I am still writing this is because I am not convinced. In a sea of life, predictions often fail. Fortunately hard work has always worked for me, but when I think about a poor old man who spends days to carve the most exquisite of sculptures and a painter who makes abstract pieces of nude art, I am addled again. It is evident as to who owns the most inexhaustible of cornucopias (Yes, today money is the measure of success to an extent). Like a lightning, it dawns upon me the mistake we always tend to make, how we try to find a pattern in life. But the truth is, life is so capricious that even the wisest of sages have not been able to come up with a perfect mantra. 

          How many times has this occurred to you ? You take a new pencil case to an examination and you ruin the examination. The next time you take it, you ruin your exam again. You are convinced that it is unpropitious for you and you would probably burn it to ashes. But what if the next time you actually wrote your exam well ? Is there a way to know ? Would you take it to your next examination ?  All this while we have been making the same mistake of trying to find symmetry. Nature is full of asymmetry and so is life! The faster we understand, the better. No matter what, destiny seems to have an upper hand at times. Until the next meander in the course of life when I broach this subject again, Chow !