Control – that’s what all of us want.
What we seek is an ability to control all the variables around us. So, we want to control our present, our future, course of things and events…. in short, we want life to follow a pattern and we want to decide what that pattern should be.
And way we convince ourselves that we can do that is through endless planning. Planning is our way to make us believe that we are in control. So we spend hours planning the future and try and convince ourselves that it would turn out exactly like that. Not that I am making a case for not planning, all am saying is you can’t plan the way things would turn out, life would take its own unique path and all you can do is see if you have something up your sleeves to catch up with life.
But may be the random variables in function of life is what give it’s a beauty which otherwise could never have been achieved. I sometimes think, had God been an engineer – life could have been more systematic, comfortable and orderly but it wouldn’t have had the beauty and charm that life has now. For that to happen, God couldn’t have been anyone but a young artist. A young artist with no reputation to precede him, no expectations to live up to and an unbridled enthusiasm to experiment with his canvas. So He filled it with colors, let life decide its own course and introduced randomness just to take away the predictability that could have turned life into a boring mechanical routine.
But coming back to my original point, just because you are at steering wheel doesn’t mean that you can also decide which bend road should have and where it should get easy. So when you are driving, you would still have to take the road that’s already laid and being at steering wheel, will only allow you to maneuver as much as road would permit.
So, if one fine evening, life springs a surprise on you - a not so pleasant surprise. One shouldn’t sit back and wonder why he couldn’t foresee it or pre-empt it. No one can. Rather, smile back at life for surprising you and then surprise life by finding the treasure that it has hid for you down that road.
After all it’s worth remembering that whatever happens – happens for good, just that sometimes we are so obsessed with our gloom that we walk past the good without noticing it.
What we seek is an ability to control all the variables around us. So, we want to control our present, our future, course of things and events…. in short, we want life to follow a pattern and we want to decide what that pattern should be.
And way we convince ourselves that we can do that is through endless planning. Planning is our way to make us believe that we are in control. So we spend hours planning the future and try and convince ourselves that it would turn out exactly like that. Not that I am making a case for not planning, all am saying is you can’t plan the way things would turn out, life would take its own unique path and all you can do is see if you have something up your sleeves to catch up with life.
But may be the random variables in function of life is what give it’s a beauty which otherwise could never have been achieved. I sometimes think, had God been an engineer – life could have been more systematic, comfortable and orderly but it wouldn’t have had the beauty and charm that life has now. For that to happen, God couldn’t have been anyone but a young artist. A young artist with no reputation to precede him, no expectations to live up to and an unbridled enthusiasm to experiment with his canvas. So He filled it with colors, let life decide its own course and introduced randomness just to take away the predictability that could have turned life into a boring mechanical routine.
But coming back to my original point, just because you are at steering wheel doesn’t mean that you can also decide which bend road should have and where it should get easy. So when you are driving, you would still have to take the road that’s already laid and being at steering wheel, will only allow you to maneuver as much as road would permit.
So, if one fine evening, life springs a surprise on you - a not so pleasant surprise. One shouldn’t sit back and wonder why he couldn’t foresee it or pre-empt it. No one can. Rather, smile back at life for surprising you and then surprise life by finding the treasure that it has hid for you down that road.
After all it’s worth remembering that whatever happens – happens for good, just that sometimes we are so obsessed with our gloom that we walk past the good without noticing it.
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