A LIFE LESS ORDINARY

People of Orphalese, you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?

Experiments have been the foundation for great discoveries. The word experiment has always fascinated me. Even in my childhood days my young imagination which was very fertile used to conjure up many a unique scenarios and myriad possibilities in my life and in the lives of those around me. Then as I grew up my life got more conditioned, my thoughts started getting molded and casted in what was termed as “appropriate societal behavioral patterns” or something defined by a simpler word but in essence meaning the same. This was generally propagated by the supposedly more knowledgeable but conditioned adults who although had justification for whatever existence they chose for themselves and subjected their younger versions to but seldom had a convincing rationale behind it at least convincing enough to make me appreciate their viewpoints. Hence although I accepted what was usually thrust upon me it seldom was my conscious choice. My faith in what I followed routinely was on shaky grounds from the beginning and I followed it in thought and in deed but it never imprinted itself where it mattered the most- the subconscious self and what I believe today is an imprint on the soul.

Today whatever I choose to do in life is grounded in what I have experienced by taking independent decisions and learning from each one of them. My faith in what I do is much stronger and has made life much more peaceful for me. But the most fascinating part is that this belief system is dynamic and has the ability to change constantly. And for this I needed to experiment with life. Test out both my strengths and weakness. Evaluate them and assess where I stand periodically. Just the way we review our work with our bosses and build on the direction we need to take so do we need to work on our personal self. See where we are headed in life and weed out that which is not in harmony with our new and most recent learnings.

But it is here that we lack motivation the most because there is no apparent and immediate gain. We don’t even know the invisible harm that is being caused. So engrossed are we with tangible outcomes that we forget to spend time with ourselves. To see what’s inside us. We lead routine lives day in and day out following blindly what people before us have done never questioning our faith in what we do.

Why don’t we take a belief that we have and chose not to follow it at all for some days? Experiment and see how life is, can be, if you were to lead it in the opposite way and then decide what gives you peace. This doesn’t mean that you have the license to do wrong things, things which your conscience would never allow but to undo and relearn what you have been conditioned to accept without understanding the same. To unconstruct and resurrect the same. In doing so you would see things in a totally different light and one you never imagined could ever exist. It would require immense courage because many a times you would need to be extremely honest with yourself and above all forgive yourself and move on with life .But at the end of the day that is all that matters.

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