People
say that life is a mystery. It is partially true. We cannot know
what awaits for us the very next day. But we always like to think otherwise. We set
deadlines for what we want to achieve and make future plans with the same set of people. The art of exploration seems to be well and truly lost. We need not always look outside to explore. People take solitude as an unwanted
companion when it is actually a good friend. We get so
much engaged in these daily activities that we rarely pause to see if it’s
going the right way, the way we want it to go. We stick to our cell phones counting our friends while
wishing for messages to appear from our loved ones. We look at others’ Facebook
profiles in our free times wishing how our lives could be better than the ones portrayed
there.
But,
we never see the obvious. We never see the today that we have in our hands. It
slips away slowly, never to return. And we forget that there are so many
activities to do and so many places to explore. They might or might not involve
people but they are equally good. Somehow, we have been made to think that our
every activity needs someone else’s tacit approval. We need to feed ourselves
but we don’t need someone else to look at us while we eat to satisfy our
hunger. But the moment that person appears; we stop feeding ourselves and start
feeding our ego.
We
need to start taking life more as a mystery rather than trying to force fit the
script in our heads. The sooner we know that, the better we will be.
