THE PLIGHT OF A CATERPILLAR




“Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it life.”

Robin Sharma

 

Well, I agree and disagree, both, with Robin Sharma.

Agree because, it’s not at all a good idea to just lie down and tell the flowing river – ‘Take me’. If that’s the idea to live by, then, there is need for any of us to get educated and strive for success in life. River takes us, anyway… and to anywhere it likes. And, we should be content with that.

Disagree because, sometimes, it’s a good idea to just go with the flow… to let the river take us… and wherever it wants to.

To thump our chests from the rooftops, claiming that we are in control of Life’s flow, is pure ignorance… 2020 has brought home this truth. All of us – the richest and the poorest, the highly-educated and the unschooled – yes, all of us had to accept the truth, that we are not in control of our lives – Life’s principles are. With this consciousness, when we try to cruise through the restless river called Life, it doesn’t shatter us completely when Pandemics or Tsunamis come.

Life goes on…

“If you are brave enough to say ‘Goodbye’,” says Paulo Coelho, “Life will reward you with a new ‘Hello’.”

There has been a lot in 2020, which was unpleasant. Unless we learn to say ‘Goodbye’ to them, yes, Life will not reward us with a new ‘Hello’ in 2021.

The same message was left behind by Anne Frank in her diary:

“What a wonderful thought it is, that some of the best days of our lives haven’t even happened yet.”

Imagine a little girl writing it in her diary in the darkness and hopelessness of  the Concentration Camp!

Our situation in 2020 was not as dark and hopeless as that of Little Anne Frank… Don’t you agree?




“Happy New-year” should not pass by as just words. Hundreds of near and dear ones have wished us so, and we, too, have wished so to hundreds of near and dear ones. Have we been serious? Do we truly believe, that the best days are only ahead?

There is an old saying:

“Just when the caterpillar thought her life was over, she became a butterfly.”

Is that our plight, too?




 

GERALD D’CUNHA

 

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Video: ABBA/Tauras Ducinskas

 

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