Real or Unreal

"Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle drugs."

~Robin Williams

'Face the reality' is probably the favorite quote of realistic and practical people. These so called realist live in real world and strive hard to bring the rest of the world to this real world. Despite all their realistic attitude, they are often not the ones who do wonders. 

What is REALITY? A mere phase between the phases of our closing our eyes until we close them forever. And this mere phase is required to be so important that ninety percent of our thoughts are concentrated here while roughly sixty to seventy percent of our life is spent in reality. Why give so much importance to it? And how do you know that this is reality and the world you witness with your eyes closed is an illusion? What is it is the other way round?

After all, everything is consequent upon our perception of it and hence, reality is how we define it. Then, why do we stick to other's definitions of reality? Why not make one for ourselves?

Be a DRUNKARD for a drunkard would do wonders as he is fearless but a realist would only observe and load all his aspirations on one hypothetical day in future. Stop for a moment and wonder, why all the great achievers had been called unrealistic at some point in their life? To wonders, one must dream and mingle them with reality and hence, your reality will be your dreams and your aspiration to make them true.

Are bothered what others will say - what those so called realistic would comment? Well, no matter what you do, they will always have something to say. Initially, you may be unrealistic or mad but when you succeed, the opinions will change drastically. Those who would have condemned you would say that they knew that you were going to make it. These opinions are amusement for they are such a comedy and change colors very quickly.

Reality is mere observation and you cannot create anything if you stick to it. Stick to dreams instead and you will end up creating another reality.

The Challenge

On Saturday, I woke up and had a fight with my mother, I received a message from passport office that there is this and that problem with my application, my consultant refused to take my call, my laptop charger fused when I am running out of cash. In short, I had a bad day or do I put it as a challenging day.

Why call a day bad or unfortunate? What happens when we cross one level of a game that we are playing and move to next level? Doesn't the number of hurdles increase? Doesn't the difficulty level increase? Do we call it a bad or unfortunate level – No, we don’t. In fact, we take it as a more challenging level to be tackled with more mindfulness and concentration and what a feeling when we cross that level!

What we all forget is that life is also a game that every living creature is playing and a bad or unfortunate day is actually, another level to which we are promoted automatically after crossing the present level. New problems are new hurdles that we have to overcome to reach the end. Why curse the day of our promotion and why call it bad if it is more challenging?

You may think that I am mad but try my recipe of bad day some time – no, it won’t turn your day into a good or lucky one but it will make you feel a lot better and as I always insist why become sad over the things that are not in your hand, instead feel good about those that are in your hands. Do you realize that you learn the most on the day that you have labelled as bad? Success is a friend, failure is a guide. So, next time you have bad day feel happy about it, be grateful that you have it and make the most of it...