You get up in the morning after a safe and fair amount of rest and you find yourself telling yourself .. ‘No .. not getting up today, not going to do anything that is expected of me to do, not doing anything ..’ and then something pushes you out and before long the world is ready to be conquered ! It was one of those days … today !
I think its all in the mind … naah … such a cliched remark … its many things coming together. Responsibility, commitment, the need to do or else and giving in. The first three are somewhat normal, natural, but the last ..’giving in’ is perhaps the most valid and valuable.
What does it feel like to give up ..? A sense of defeat, of not being able to perform, of allowing the mind and body to dictate to you. There have been many occasions in our lives when we have felt so. There is abject decision to withdraw. It is that self feel that we have gone beyond what we could have done or achieved, or are at a stage when we realise that we are unsuited for the part. Unsuited for the part, could be a wrong decision, one that could have been thrust upon you in circumstances beyond your control. In such cases it is best to be honest with one self. Accept the wrong decision and give in.
Failure or its acceptance is nothing to be ashamed of, happens to all of us, but it is the effort made before it that gains importance. Did we put in our best, or did we succumb to effort ! The satisfaction of such is beyond all else ..
There is great appreciation and applause for the winner yes, but the recognition for the loser is somehow that has that special something ..
This does not by any stretch of imagination suggest that we need to go for that ‘special something’ .. !!!
There is a limit to how much the mind and the body can accept in its functionality. There is a limit to the resilience it can express. There is a limit to which it can take the pressures of time and work. There is a limit to its expectations …
But ..
There is no limit to what shall eventually prevail once subjected to the above. And what has been subjected is subject to circumstances; some that even the body and mind cannot find sufficient legitimate reasons to admit ..
Tax and extend the limits and you shall find that, the system works beyond what may be the prescribed limit. Push to its extreme and discover that the extreme was a standard of what you thought it to be, traditionally or scientifically … but not mentally.
The mind has a mind of its own. It is simple, unknown and beyond all that we can ever imagine. 30% of the usage of the brain is not really an alarming figure, yet that is what scientists have discovered to be the average usage in the lifetime of a human. So approximately 70% has remained unused. Wasted and under employed as it were - burnt in its last rites at the time of death, or buried under the earth to dissolve into it. Empowering the ground under which it has been submerged. Giving it the fodder for its richness and productive demeanour.
All that does come to us in form and material is of course a portion of the earth, that nature provides us with. Medicines, illnesses, shapes and existence substantiates. It has come to us rich in its presence … and perhaps enriched by the millions of that elusive power that remained unused in the human … and who knows even of any living being … !!
It all sounds a bit morbid !! And not worthy of mention ! Fling and flung out the window, that is washed down by the pouring rain.
It was a somewhat revealing day, to be down in the duvet in day, and to be awakening in day as well. For a moment it seemed like most of the northern fringe countries to the pole, where the sun skims past the horizon, never to set, never to produce darkness by its absence ..Iceland, Greenland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, St Petersburg and the ‘white nights’ , and all the romance of those moments … It is romantic indeed is it not, to never lose the sun in an entire day. For day to remain day without the night. Must be bringing on social change in temperament among the inhabitants … to live in endlessness of day time, when all regular parameters indicate that time lapse has been judged by the dark and the light of the 24 hours which complete … a day … ?
Suddenly ‘day’ does not sound right .. !!
A plate is never full until you feel that it is full .. it may have been filled up to the limit … that has been to you a limit. It will change .. the limit. And that change shall be determined by you. But can it be standardised ?
Surely not ! Our parameters are different for each individual … how and what we like and dislike … how we define what may have been defined in general terms ..
That then is the beauty of this unexplainable life ..
It is beautiful ..
Just like another moment ..
Today was that for me …
Have a pleasant day and a very peaceful night!
Before closing with my usual line i must say: It is the 10th of Moharram the day when we humans lose the battle against evil. Imam Hussain (A.S.) was killed, but never surrenders his thoughts and principles to what he believes was wrong. That battle was lost but he proves to be alive till today as an example of life. Truth will always prevail against a lie. All humanity will always remember and mourn the sacrifice of your family to save Islam. Islam is today because of Imam Hussain (A.S.).
With love...
DiL
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