So today started off as one of those days when
the world just totally sucks and everything around you seems irritating.
Thinking of the issues of life usually leaves you with an aftertaste which
isn't exactly sweet especially when the main course isn't a pleasant meal.
Thinking through the night before of where I want to be and where I am now and
just taking critical life decisions seems quite an arduous task. The part of
life where I think can best be described as midlife crises.
If you are in anyway like me and you
have dreams that just loom largely in your brain then you begin to wonder if
really you on the pathway to those dreams. At the same time I know my life is
just going to get better and better each day. Why am I so convinced of this? Well
it’s simply because of God and life. I cannot complain because everything that
happens is all part of a divine plan. I may probably be sounding like the
author of the "alchemist" with that line but seriously I believe it.
Last
Friday I found out that a friend of mine had suddenly gone completely blind in
both eyes. I was shocked to tears; I couldn't believe how someone I knew who
was seeing how beautiful the world was with both eyes had suddenly no chance of
seeing this world again. A girl who drove her own car and just completed her master’s
degree. At that point I just realized
how really cruel the world could be and how very lucky we all were. By us all I
mean all those of us who have our faculties working correctly, who don't have
to walk naked on the streets due to either no fault of ours or because of
psycho active drugs or something else I cannot fathom. Who didn't have to
live on the coins people threw at us through their windows.
My day
indeed wasn't a good one by any standard. On my way back from work I got stuck
in traffic for an insane period and at the point when I decided to buy
chocolate from a street vendor, the cars started moving and this vendor had to
run madly after the car. The most painful part was that the car in front of
ours was also silver in color so the vendor ended up going to the wrong
car and he was sent away. We eventually called him back and he didn't have any
change. I felt horrible because I couldn't believe he had run all that way for
nothing. Eventually my colleague found some change and I bought the chocolate.
I spent
the rest of my journey thinking about the struggle people went through daily to
make ends meet and the praises I should be singing for all the undeserved
mercies bestowed on me. My friend just landed a very good job today and I was
ecstatic. I was so happy that at long last something great was happening to
someone I knew; it further stressed my lesson for the day which was that in all
things we should be thankful because we could be in worse situations.
Celebrate with those who are happy and mourn with those who are grieving. We do
not have to be happy only when we are the ones with good fortunes, we have to be
able to share in the joy of others so that in turn good things happen to
us.........Am done.
