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...   

Virtual Boundaries

From believing in an edgy world, we have discovered our geoid shaped planet.

While searching for the limits, we have unveiled an ever expanding universe.

Boundaries are not the part of natural creation but that of human’s.

And to cross those boundaries is consequent upon our will.

Indeed, nature has bestowed us with no boundaries – physical or virtual. No wonder, it has provided us with big and small hurdles to test the tenacity of our will but no hurdle is obstinate enough to be called a boundary. When we wish to achieve something, we calculate the extent to which we can go to achieve that thing, the amount of risk that we are ready to take and the volume of stakes that we can put and thus, we set our boundaries.

Life is the biggest gamble and it is up to us to decide the amount with which we would play – some of us play big and some play small and the risk and rewards are likewise. If we set up the boundaries of our time and efforts in our acts of achieving, the boundaries of our rewards would automatically be set. Some of us are determined to achieve and commit to achieve despite everything – we call them unrealistic until they succeed, and then we call them lucky. On the other hand, most of us seek the prop of so called ‘reality’ and compromise with our dreams – we wish to achieve but when it comes to striving we are often lazy.

Reality is that tool with which we set boundaries between our present world and a world, which we call unrealistic or impossible. However, it is always impossible unless it is done. A century back, space trips and cyber world were unrealistic but they flourish today because of some of those who mingled reality and unreality – for whom there were no boundaries.  

There are no boundaries for boundaries are not in the nature of universe and we are a part of this universe. So, break away from your artificial boundaries and become a drunkard lover, who can even go to hell to make love with his beloved.

Reality is just a refuge for those, who are tired of their dreams. Whether you want to live like a refugee or die like a successful lover – the choice is yours!  

The Only Obstacle

The pupil raised another question to his teacher, “What are obstacles that lay in our way to success?” The teacher had a wise smile and took the class to school terrace. He asked the pupil to climb the fences and look down. The pupil was dead scared, “I will fall and die,” he said. “You won’t. Now climb” But the pupil did not move. After repeated persuasion, he mustered up some courage, climbed for a fleeting moment and jumped back to the terrace floor.

“You see,” said the teacher “you and your fears are your only obstacles. Once, you overcome them by having faith in you, you will be unstoppable”

When you are afraid to do something, you tend to find myriad excuses so that you do not have to perform – you call them obstacles. Even a small reason will work as good as a big one if you are afraid and wish to avoid it. At that time, you will not find solutions but problems & hurdles and you will have more of both. If you waste your energy in constructing backup plans before starting your journey, you will end up living your life in your backups. It is good to be prudent but your prudence must not interfere with your goals.

Who and what can stop you? Nobody and nothing but you yourselves!

You are afraid to take the plunge – a leap of faith. But then, what is not risky – being born as a helpless and completely dependent infant is risky! Sharing the air, you breathe in with a large population is risky! Driving is risky and so is eating the food produced by an unknown farmer! Life is in itself a risk – a gamble, a coincidence! Despite this, you live and keep your faith.

To achieve something, to succeed, you must trust your abilities like an infant trusts his mother. Failure must not be an option – you may lose some levels but the game must end with your triumph. You are unstoppable only your will to achieve has to overcome your fear of failure. There is no mundane obstacle as great as the one that lie within – an inertia that prevents you from leaving your comfort zone, to take risk and to kick start the journey.

You may lose once, twice or thrice but each one of us is a born winner. Hence, victory is your property and the ultimate claim on it will be yours if and only if you remove the only obstacle...