Walking
by a lonely road, I once happened to listen to a whisper “the road will not
move, you have to walk your steps yourself”. I never happened to see a face
then, so I took it to be as the wood’s whisper. But it made me think was that
voice trying to convey a message to me? Did I just overheard someone else’s
conversation, or was it a secret truth, enlightening me? I never paid much
attention then, because I was a kid, and the long road made me tired, and the
awkward silence of the road was a bit scary too.
But now when I think about that day sometimes, I wonder. Everything we
see, we come across, don’t they all have something to say, something to
deliver, something to speak about? The words were simple, and for most of us
they won’t mean anything. But those words hold a hidden truth. All our lives,
we search for a road that will direct us towards our destiny. Little do we realize
that somewhere in the midst of that exhausting search, we seem to forget its
main purpose? The search was always meant to take us to our destiny, not to the
road. The road had always been the medium, the main source, the only path to
where we want to reach. But all the same, even the journey through that very
road is a part of our achievement. All of us have sometime or the other
misunderstood the road to be as what we strive for. When we wonder why we lost
coming so close to what we aspire to win, we blame all the criteria and
situations but never think of the small aspect, our misunderstanding.
The surrounding
we live in, its supporting nature has restricted us on the basic understanding
that there is no space in our life for “almost”. We either have it or we don’t.
“Fortune favors the brave” they say. But we have always thought the adamant to
be brave. Scared you may be, for the journey through the road will never be
easy. Weary you will be, for that walk is never meant to be smooth. But the
last thing we mean to do and still we do most often is to celebrate the moment
when we find the road and wish to take a break.
Reluctance is a silent assassin of enthusiasm. The moment we let ourselves
lose, our spirit dies the spirit which had pulled us all these way. We excuse ourselves
as giving it our best and still missing it, hiding the flaws in our efforts. The
achievers and the visionaries beg to differ. They have always known where they
stand and where they aim to stand, and that always had created the difference. “There’s
no shortcut to a place worth going” we read. And when we divide the path into
bits of achievements, we had done it wrong.
So today, I will walk. Walk through the path I never dared to. The paths
I left for I wasn't sure what lies ahead. For today, I have realized that I can
never be in a position to predict the upcoming, if I haven’t been through it.
And before
I do that, I will quote a famous man’s word “Arise, Awake, and stop not till
your goal is reached”.
- DAICHI
18th NOV., 2012
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