As some old memories make their way through to my visions behind the autumn leaves, a dust covered memory glows with the radiance of its exuberance. Often we are awestruck at how this life teaches us the most complicated lessons with the most simple methods.
We experience so many things in our life that when we close the chapter, we find nothing so impressive or amazing.... than the mystery called as "Life". Life is over-rated! But whatever we see, feel, sense or acquire is, in this Life itself. Nothing goes beyond this life- No highs, no lows. Everything forms a part of it... yet we do not observe that we are just the pawns in this game, and life is silently making us move in the directions it wants us to. We talk of God, we talk of Nature but seldom do we think about that we are just sent on this earth to make the moves Life wants us to...in its own way. The mold is ready... we just have to make space for ourselves in it. And the way we make that space is called Experience....and that mold is called Life.
Random thoughts hit us a million times within a fraction of a second. I caught up one such random thought...as tiny as a sand particle...and began analyzing it.. and what I found was the structural pattern of one of the atoms of life.
Here it goes:
This incident is abridged from the life pages of one of my friends. The names of the characters in this incident have been changed. It starts when my friend Abhay fell for a girl Ankita who was also one of his friends. Ankita was a simple girl who didn't like many complications in her life but it so happened that her life always tested her. She probably never gave a deep thought to what Love is, and someday her prince charming will come and ride her away on his horse. But as I dared to speak about it, Rishab enters her life. He was rich and from a well to do family. His academic records were also good. In short, he had all the luxuries of life and his career was all set. One fine day, when Cupid was in a mood for some mischief, Rishab proposed Ankita. Ankita, who probably never thought that this day will come, was amazed at this. She probably began thinking of way too many things. Their Surnames were similar; Rishab was a good guy; a good family background and a prosperous life. What more can a girl ask for? It was then that the molds seemed favourable to her. But a pawn doesn't know what is the grandmaster thinking about him. A week later, Rishab went away with the wind telling her that it was just a joke for him. A joke for someone- A dream of a lifetime for the other: What an irony.
On the other side of the story, Abhay was hurt. He decided that if Ankita's happiness is with Rishab, he may let go Ankita and never tell her what she meant to him. When he came to know about what had happened, he felt sorry for Ankita rather than being happy for himself. Ankita kept on waiting for Rishab till her tears dried up. Abhay decided to make her life as beautiful as it was before. He told her how he felt about her.... months passed by and they kept in touch...But Ankita never answered Abhay about his feelings. She just said I cannot love anymore. Its so strange that our first love doesn't succeed coz we lack certain things, but when we get to know about them, we don't love anymore!!
Still Abhay kept trying and trying...to keep her happy. He never raised any such topics in their conversations where Ankita would feel uncomfortable. Years passed by, but Ankita still didn't answer. It was during these days, a person named Kapil enetered into Ankita's life. Kapil fell for Ankita, and he had all those qualities which Ankita observed in Rishabh. That was the reason why Ankita ignored Kapil initially, but not for long.... And as time passed by, Gradually but slowly, Abhay became just an image in Ankita's life. And slowly but gradually the memory is lost; the last thing that can be visualized was Abhay was nowhere to be found, and Ankita started felling for Kapil. This is the end of the memory. It may be incomplete...It might not be what we are accustomed to have in romantic love stories...But its Life. Nobody knows where Abhay is what he would be thinking right now. No clue as to what happened to the Ankita-Kapil frame... But this memory just made me realize one thing...One small thing, yet a big experience of life.
Our universe revolves round "3" elements of life: Ankita, Rishab and Kapil. At some point or the other, we fall for Ankita, a Rishab enters her life and it gradually ends with Kapil. Its not necessary that Ankita should be a girl and Rishab a boy. These are just characters played by the elements of life. At certain points of life we are Abhay, and we really don't know how to erase Ankita's past and mold her a new life. We don't realize that we don't mold the life...The Life molds us; the only thing in our hands is how we manage to fit in that mold... On the whole, the mold remains the same.
It tells a very simple lesson to all of us: Accept whatever is coming and regret less. Whatever happens, happens for a reason that is beyond our imagination and control. If n ands, puts and buts, do not constitute a part of our universe. What matters is that we were in the molten form and we just solidify later. Experiences only make us stronger. We think too much about "Only if..." never trying to understand that whatever happened was already planned to happen. Why do we regret so much?
There are no Excuses in Life and no blame, Every morning is a fresh challenge... Either you learn to pick the gauntlet up and fight or learn to surrender to it... So long as there is life..there is struggle!!
Take care..
T.P.S.
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