The
gap between aspiration and achievement is thin but deep. This gap, they
say is hardest to fill, simplest to fathom and deepest to the core.
We
have our laundry lists of to-do’s and we have tasks to do. We have our
priorities to decide and actions to act. More than anything else, we
have achievements to achieve and aspirations to aspire, but what do we
do first, or start earliest?
It’s
funny, it applies everywhere… you can’t put what you want to do on back
burner. You have to rise with all, make it rise, all in one go, not one
at a time. And the reasonable philosophy behind this rationale is ‘The
One.’ I may have mentioned before my love for this Richard Bach’s book
where he derives how each decision, each parallel life and crossroad
that you take in life is one with your life. It all gets amalgamated to
decide where you are and what you are going to do.
We
often refer to tackling personal life now, or taking decision for one’s
professional well being or at best, to feed our spiritual heights.
That’s flawed if anything. What we decide is: one, all interrelated, so
you can’t decide for one thing now overlooking the other. Two, they are never mutually exclusive that you can isolate one for other, three they
often involve a trade-off. Four, and a good news is that they all play
towards our one wish of totality and fulfillment which is incomplete, to
say the least, if we were to lookout for that mental peace thing!
Jimmy
Shergill slaps Sanjay Dutt in Munnabhai when he tried to give him
highly acclaimed ‘Jaadu ki jhappi’ as he gets the news of nearing death.
He says I never drank, smoked, had a girlfriend. Never did anything
known to be a vice or indulgent because I had duties to take care of.
How is that even logical. The core aspects of life are not like
appetizers, starters, main course and dessert that one takes it one at a
time. Its more like a puzzle that needs to be worked upon from all ends
to make that lovely picture.
This
phenomenon of secluding one thing for other is the most common, if I
may call, mistake, that we do. It actually surfaced from a dinner
conversation with a friend, with whom I was discussing some career move
which was actually not so good or in sync with what my personal life
demands. I was casually saying that lets get this done first, then I
will look how to tackle that. Then I heard myself…And I did sound damn
foolish to say the least.
Imagine
how easy and convenient it would have been if you could solve a Rubik
cube saying I am only looking at Reds now. I’d see yellow blue green
white and black later. You would only struggle and reach nowhere.
Yes it is a challenge, but who said life comes easy???
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