Random thoughts – Feb 2009

While handling the different strokes in life we keep struggling to get our wishes, our dreams fulfilled. I find it never ending. Long before a wish is to come true the seeds for a new one would have been sowed. The moment a desire is fulfilled we start working towards achieving the next. The hard work, the anxiety, the planning, the prayers have all become such an integral part of our lives that we can probably not imagine one without them.

A new wish born and we start working towards it. We hope against all hopes - if only this one wish comes true! We work hard. We get to make all ends meet. We really sweat it out both mentally and physically, We also seek spiritual blessings, we make requests to God even bribe them. And of course GOD is great at multitasking. Most of the time he handles the requests of all and helps us achieve what we have been putting our lives into. But then what follows next ? Momentary pleasure, rejoicing and then the very next day we would conceive a new desire and the journey would start all over again.

Why have we made this journey more important than the destination? Why is that once achieved the goal which was once the only aim of life become secondary. why do we forget our past achievements and always keep dreaming and thinking about what we are yet to achieve.
A poet rightly coined these words -
Dunia Jisse kehte hain, Jadu ka khilona hai.
Mil jae tho mitti hai, kho jae tho sona hai.
Which means Life is magical, if you get it, its nothing more than a worth of mud, BUT if you loose, its worth a gold!