The Bumpy Ride Home

In one of the silent moments of contemplation, I tried to describe life in the 21st Century....and I could come up with just one definition...We live our lives in fast forward mode....In the race to excel..only the fittest and fastest survive....Right from the moment go...we are in a hurry to excel...to be the best..and in this course nothing else matters ..as long as success is ours to be claimed.....But is this all that is there in life??..or is there something else more??
Introspection, something which all of us do whenever we are at a crossroad of decision making...whenever we are entangled in confusions..when we are at the end of our reserves....when we are not sure about the course to take in life....It is during those silent moments of contemplation that waves of thoughts crash against the rocks of conscience and everything is much clearer...It was during one of these silent spells that I realised some very important things and that my life needed a change and a drastic one at that............
I realised that I was doing something because that was the most logical thing to do..not because I love to do it..On further introspectioon, I realised that all the things which I was doing and planning to do where the ones which were most logical to do and politically correct. It had nothing to do with my love to do them.I was obsessed by the necessity to blaze a trail on the path taken..never mind even if that path taken was taken sans any love....I realised that the parameters with which I measured my success..my happiness... were the ones decided by someone else. At some point of time someone said that to be successful one should have a double degree and a pedigree to boast about and I believed it to be true...Never once did a thought occur to explore another unchartered coast.........My reflections revealed startling facts and I was thunderstruck.......
I realised a tad bit late that happiness is not measured by the yard stick of success.....and success was not about acheiving great and big things......It is about achieving something which you really love to do.....it is about finding that path and exploring it to the last and marvelling the sights you come across as you move along that choosen path.....I realised that.....The first ray of golden sunlight...when the whole world is waking up.....the golden sunrise..the almost magical aura in the air at that time..are the ones which cheer me up.........The tiny flowers waving their colorful heads to the rythm set by the breeze.....the birds chirping....the tall trees standing as mute witnesses to the passing time ....are the ones which keep me grounded to reality........The velvetty night sky..with thousands of glittering diamonds strung across it....the silvery moonlight...serene and soothing...the gentle breeze caressing....are the ones which urge me to dream.....I realised that happiness is found even in the most mundane and ordinary things....and that it is these small things which add the much needed vitality to our lives........
The ride so far was definitely bumpy....and now that I realised that missing element in life....I'm at peace......Like the adage goes...
God is in heaven and all is well with his world....
I must say............my world too..........................................