‘Life’ is one of the most unfair propositions you will ever come across. Do you believe this? No matter how miserable I am today and even considering the fact I am one of the most celebrated members of the ‘B’ group, I still believe in one thing. Life has its own idiosyncratic way of leveling things around. It is just that our myopic vision is not able to decipher the subtleties and our intellect is made to think otherwise.
Consider this;
I overheard a conversation between two people sometime back. Let’s name the first person FP and the second person SP and the subject as SB.
FP: SB is a lucky chap. God has gifted him in so many ways, he was one of the top performers in his class, he has represented his company in the TC Quiz and to top it all he is a fantastic singer.
SP: Yes, it is true; look he is too popular with all the people around. I wish I too was a dude like he is.
SB is not lucky. This is the problem with the ‘I-Phone’ generation. We all adore the glamour and the glitz but only a few realize the hard work SB might have put in practicing arithmetic tables, how boring it was for him to sit and read the Bournvita Quiz Book, while his friends were busy playing cricket. They do not realize, how parched his throats must have felt, after subjecting them to a gruesome ‘riyaaz’.
He is enjoying the moment today because he cared to make the right choices, he invested in his future, he went through all that pain, he conquered all his insecurities and he negotiated all the vicissitudes that life threw at him. You call it unfair, I call it unfair. He is better than you because he made a choice to be better than you. You call it unfair, I do not.
Take it in some other context. Say, placements. Many people strive hard for a short term, say maybe 10 months and seek to outsmart a person who has cared to be consistent all throughout his life. This may or may not happen. He may not be putting the same effort as you may do, but still his aggregate effort is more than anybody else. In the end, he wins. Is this unfair?Next in the same series comes tomorrow.
Signing off,
Simply Loser, Simply SK
3 comments:
aptly said but many a times the output doesn't commensurate with the effort that you put in, that's were I guess fate come in..
hmm....invest in the future....its a favourite buffet phlosophy..
Nice one Sumit..... Introspection is just like postmortem of yourself... Everyone know its meaning but very few choose to accept.. kya kare... logo ko doosro ki jindgi me ungli karne ki aadat jo par gayi hai....
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