Random Lives

You will get one chance twice in one life, only if you are too lucky!

Often we have heard the saying, life has all whims and fancies and most of the time takes another route while you were too busy planning out something else. Sometimes, I have wondered how vital our decisions are in this ever-changing life. Since childhood, there are milestones which were set which had always appeared to be straight route. After more than twenty years of meaningful survival, when I look back, the route seems twisted.

We say luck is when planning meets circumstances! Great thought! Because most of the time, planning meets eternity! You plan to become an astronaut; you land in some IT Company. You plan to have a relaxing weekend; you end up getting loads of work. You plan for work that is expected, you end up re-planning after some days. You speculate in stocks, think of 'x', stocks behave 'y'. You plan for Fiat, end up in Santro. Human life is spent 50% on thinking. Life is spent 100% on facing the unexpected.

All time our only wish is to control our lives, to decide on what our future is going to be, to beat the cycle of patterns and to follow your heart with your planning. But often it is seen that all this effort is futile. While you have thought of what you want, slowly the life creeps away. What is left – planning in pieces, scattered all around, crying out loud, ‘Why didn’t you think early, start before?’ J Ironical but who doesn’t play the blame game.

That’s why I say, you will get one chance twice in one life, only if you are too lucky – at least then you can put your plans for purpose to succeed in what you wanted!!!

Life is taken more as a rollercoaster until you realize where you are heading to!
How can people around you know more about your life than you yourself do? It feels like losing control of your basics of existence. The boundaries of living start to follow a 'Pattern' which they call social norms. Is it so difficult to break these shackles and call life your own. Does it always need to be overpowered by some other beings who profess to be experienced?
I live to learn but to learn by my own experience. I urge to traverse what I want from my heart. I want to redefine right and wrong by what I feel is right and wrong. Life is a symbol of freedom in thoughts, works and ethics. Let it spread wings - not because it wants to run wild but because it wants to run wise...

There is always a world yet to discover..
This feeling dawned to me when I was a part of SOS Children Village volunteers group and visited a children society in Pune. It was a help school in Koregaon. We were a group of 7, had planned lots of activites like passing the parcel, prizes to be won, tree planting; in short spending ample time with the kids..
The moment I reached the school I was shocked to see the huge crowd of small children, aged 6-15 yrs. They gathered in the school hall, the noise decibels were similar to what we would experience in normal schools. As per the plan we started off introducing ourselves and reason why we were there. One of them stood up and said - 'Yes we have regular visits here but can you promise me that I will grow up and become a doctor?' We got to know about the visits from many corporates donating money to societies like these. I was not even sure how the money was utilized..
So with many things unanswered, as per plan, we had few rounds of passing the parcel and musical chairs. That was real fun.. We could see them hysterically laughing, pushing kids.. This was followed by prize/sweets distribution. These kids didn't have parents. They didn't know what there future would be like. All they knew was that their friends were also like them..
When I returned, the thought running in my head was is there anything an individual can do to make their lives better? Can we do something to secure their future? Can those smiles be forever..