Teardrops slowly fall from my eyes as I look to the sky, and I question how come life keeps passing me right on by. I just wonder why I can't escape, is this my fate? To always be unhappy and how much longer must I wait...
Why Me???
I am sure, this question comes on and off in everybody's mind.
Recently saw this advertisement of Yuvraj Singh after his victory over cancer - WHY ME. I don’t remember exactly, but the ad seems to be for an Insurance Company.
But, this "WHY ME" triggered lots and lots of questions-thoughts inside this small brain of mine. The important fact of life and death and the complete process which we all walk through from the day we start breathing inside our mother's womb till we get onto the funeral pyre.
Small baby who dies even before he takes birth; Mother thinks - WHY ME?
Now, if the child comes out and takes in the fresh air of our universe but something wrong happens later or is born with some abnormalities.
Again the mother says - WHY ME? On top of this she thinks wish the child had not seen the first rays of light of this world.
Now suppose, if with the God's grace and Doctor's abilities, all goes well.
He grows up to be a naughty child and one who doesn’t study much. Again the mom thinks - WHY my child only??Why "A's" child is so good and studies well. etccc.......
Let's make this child intelligent and smart but when he gives his Entrance Exams after school and is not able to make into one of the IITs or AIIMS by just one mark. Again the mother and now even this teenager thinks - WHY ME??? I was so intelligent and smart but still could not get through and now I am standing outside the gates of these prestigious colleges of India
Irony doesn’t stop here.
As we progress in our life from college to job to married life to parenthood to some illness on the way and even on the last step of our life - Death, if everything goes well, we just smile and thank god but never think WHY ME.
When even one event of the life takes a different turn and the Red Signal of our life does not change to Green for few minutes, hours, days, months and years...
We start asking again n again - WHY ME????
For sure, this moment of WHY ME is bad and it hurts and maybe sometimes we wish, if we had not taken this decision or wish to die or wish if some miracle could happen to pull us out of this situation or just wants to sleep for a thousand years, or just not exist, or just not be aware that you do exist, or something like that. Wish the earth stops rotating and revolving or something which keeps you away from everybody and so many other thoughts keep spinning in your head.
At this point, somehow one more thought comes to my mind that all those books which talk about leadership and ask us to focus, concentrate and grow as a leader.
Is it easy to come out of this WHY ME and keep moving on the path of this leadership???? I still have to learn and walk this path.
As some great people have said---->
" Our life's a stage, a comedy: either learn to play and take it lightly, or bear its troubles patiently." Maybe during those WHY ME situations, we need to be patient and work to make the traffic signal Green.
OR
" Life is like the dice that, falling, still show a different face. So life, though it remains the same, is always presenting different aspects."
Keep Smiling..... :)
