One day I was having a chat with a friend of mine, who is a part of a social cause initiative named ‘Igniting Minds’ where she teaches the orphans. This task, according to her, is highly challenging, but at the same time, it’s a moment she admires the most, and it actually adds happiness to her life.
The two words ‘challenging + happy’ made me to go deep in my thoughts. I wondered that how many of us really face our challenges with happiness???
Rather, for most of us challenges are an open invitation to worries and a starting phase of sadness, which slowly peeks into our life and thus ends up creating emptiness (for most of us).
The reason why I am again and again emphasizing on the word ‘most of us’ is because it depends on the way we live our lives, the way we see our lives, the way we distinguish between the bright and dark bands of our lives.
While writing the above lines I am reminded of a quote by Joshua.J.Marine, which says --
“Challenges are what make life interesting, and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful”.
So how many of us really support this saying??? The answer would be all of us. But now if I ask, how many of us really employ this in our life? It is a million dollar question that forces you to look deep inside yourself and ask yourself that for so many years you have been hearing so many influential and philosophical thoughts of great people... and what do you do after listening to each such thought; you end up saying- wow! What a thought... and then that’s where the road ends to such a beautiful and meaningful quote… and exactly why this road ends? The answer is simple enough. It is just that we don’t employ this thought. We just praise it...
AND THE PEOPLE WHO EMPLOY THESE THOUGHTS ARE THE ONES WHO START PRAISING EVERY PHASE OF THEIR LIVES. THEY START ENJOYING EVERY MOMENT OF THEIR LIFE, AND, MOST IMPORTANTLY, START PLAYING WITH CHALLENGES.
Of course no one’s perfect and no one’s gifted with a perfect life. So, the challenges are bound to come and they await you in every step of yours… It depends on how you face it --with cowardice or with valour and spirit.
Many of us, when burdened with a lot of problems in our life get frightened and rather than acting and finding solutions to those problems, we sit at a corner of the room like squirrels. Okay, now I know what would be your next question. WHY SQUIRRELS??? Guys, you know I love the way a squirrel eats with its two tiny hands, the way it jumps from one branch to another, but there is one quality I don’t like about squirrels … and that is the way it faces hurdles in life. Have you ever noticed a squirrel when many vehicles arrive in its path… if not, don’t worry… let me tell you… when it is in such a situation its body is filled up with so many reflexes from its mind that it just moves haphazardly between the vehicles even when there would be so many safe places to go. Hmm… it is a little hard to relate with human life but I am at your service. So let us translate this situation into human life… It's a little weird... but still…
Squirrel=human being, vehicles=difficulties we face in our life, the reflexes=confusions we create in our mind, a safe place=a solution to our problem.
Yes my dear friends, this fact is cent percent true. Don’t you think when obstacles cover your path like a dark shadow…. instead of finding a ray of sunlight… you actually try to make that shadow much darker. When you are burdened with lots of challenges… you get so much confused in them that rather than solving them step by step, you are in a great rush to solve all of them at a single go, or you just sit and watch them overpower you.
And this is where we all do mistakes. Now, what is the solution when you are faced with challenges?
First of all don’t take challenges as challenges but as a daily soap which is going to come after a certain interval of time with a new spice always added into it.
Secondly, sometimes challenges are invited by us… but if you really ask me I club this type of so-called self-made challenges into self-made difficulties, probably because we encounter them in our life due to our lack of time management skills. If you really want to know the importance of time… ask a mother who’s trying to give her child the best nutritious food when the baby is growing in her womb, only to give rise to a healthy kid after nine months… or try to understand the importance of time from a patient who is suffering from cancer and knows that he is going to leave this world in a week… or to even understand importance of every second, ask an athlete who missed the world record by a second…
Friends, these are some real facts of life I wanted to share with all of you… obviously I know it’s really hard to employ such big things in life. Frankly speaking, even after knowing such things I am also not able to employ them in my realistic world… but at least we can try. Who knows, one day, maybe we will succeed…..
At last I would like to share some lines of a beautiful poem that I learnt way back in my school, THE ROAD NOT TAKEN –by Robert Frost
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and
I took the one less travelled by,
And that has made all the difference…
Y13 Undergraduate, The LNMIIT
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