If not, somebody will. It is a very pleasant
feeling you know, you shall also realize it. But when you'll realize what it means, that would be the most important day in your life. Mark the date.
At times I see many people around who ponder over the same topics/aspects/issues, animate or inanimate, as men before them had done, and as men shall be doing in future. They might be anything from a pebble to the latest 'in vogue' theory of the Big Bang, in an effort to simplify the topic, to make it comprehensible with more ease. I would like to think that their noble intention, as they think, is to increase the span of its relevance, thus including more people for it to be comprehended.
But many times it assumes a totally different picture, creating a variety of perceptions, and the simplified version of intent becomes a separate topic altogether. And thus starts a new tree with new branches, a new school of thought that eventually makes a place in the pages of history (the sequence of events are always difficult for me to make sense and reason out of).
The reason why I'm telling you is that you can perhaps note it as well. As you will see many people doing it, different people in different circumstances, and that means in different situations, with different surroundings. All these "differences" merge together actually what I call Life, my life now, and the one that you are living at this moment reading my words.)
"Good things happen to good people" :
I had a habit of telling this to people, so much so that people actually believed that I was a good man, one who talked to them with Wisdom, Honesty and Selflessness. The truth is while they believed so, I didn't understand how, and neither did I know why, should "good things happen to good people".
So much so for my Wisdom.
What I honesty believed is that I believed in it.
So much so for my Honesty.
The fact is every time I said it to somebody, I was actually saying to myself that I want that to happen to me, repeating it to myself.
So much so for my Selflessness.
The truth is I never understood the truth.
Today as I write to you, I realize I hardly say it anymore. Yet strangely I am not sad, sad about the fact that it never happened to me, in spite of my believing in it, no matter how much I might have wished it did. As time passed on, I wished harder, as I kept on repeating it.
Along the same time, everything and everybody around me was teaching me something else, but so quietly and slowly that I didn't realize it.
At one point of time, I knew that I didn't have the strength to wish anymore. I gave up, because I was so tired. After all it had been a long way I'd travelled along - that's the truth. As I took a pause, I noticed that I was tired yet not sad, just like I am not, at this very moment. During that pause, everything around me seemed to recede to the farthest of horizons. I was so fatigued, as if only I was there and my thoughts -- of the long way I'd travelled.
It was that moment when all the thoughts about my past, and my journey till then,
seemed to "fall in sequence". I could perceive a sense of continuum, a thread that seemed to go through all the memories, as if it was holding them in sequence. And that was when the I understood it.
If there is something called Knowledge, something I know, feel and believe, it was the essence of this "falling in sequence" and what I realized from it. This is the only Knowledge I have till now. And so it shall be for me, forever.
'Good things' never happen to good people, because good things don't happen. But 'good people' do happen to you. Good people think and approach whatever they come across in life in such a way that the results turn out to be what we call "good things".
If you ask me what is "this Romantized, Philosophized, Intellectualized Honest piece of Wisdom that I'm portraying here with a divine halo behind my head", I shall say this : go ahead and seek the answer to that Why.
If you ask me about real Knowledge, I shall say there is the only one thing I know. And that shall be the only knowledge for me till I'll reach the end of time. I'll stop there. But the only thing I know and told you now, shall go on, till the end of time and beyond. I tell you now : go ahead and seek the answer to that Why.
That is the actual essence of what we call Life. One can call it a charm, a beauty, or a time-span of sufferings, or a journey in search for answers to questions that demand rationalisation of every possible event that builds up to begin the journey itself. If you get tired travelling, take a pause, rest a while. At the end of the day, after everybody has done everything and gone to sleep, what does life figure out to be? It's this word : Hope. Believe it as I believe you. You shall never stop travelling. Go ahead.
Love you as ever.
Sent from my BlackBerry®Smartphone ------------------------------------------------------
Dr.Anirban Chaudhuri, MBBS
Consultant Physician,
Mumbai, India. ------------------------------------------------------
"It is important to just listen for a while instead of speaking." -- My teacher ------------------------------------------------------
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