Do you remember the time you learnt how to ride a bicycle?
Your dad/brother/mom/sister/friend would hold the cycle from the rear end and you would try to balance your way through, all this while saying frantically, “Chodhna mat, chodhna mat!!” Then without even realising it, you would ride a long way ahead,
look back and see them standing way behind. That’s how most of us learnt how to ride a bicycle.
Your dad/brother/mom/sister/friend would hold the cycle from the rear end and you would try to balance your way through, all this while saying frantically, “Chodhna mat, chodhna mat!!” Then without even realising it, you would ride a long way ahead,
look back and see them standing way behind. That’s how most of us learnt how to ride a bicycle.
Today’s post is somewhat related to the above anecdote. Well, I’m not going to talk about childhood memories, family or anything like that, but about those two words in the above paragraph..... look back. Now you see why I put them in bold!! :)
You didn’t look back just when you started the ride, but when you had come a long way through. Usain Bolt, at times, looks back to see his closest competitor, towards the end of the race, not when he has just begun. So my point is, you look back on things when you feel you’ve come a long way through. I for instance, being a 20 year old, at times, look back upon things that happened during infancy and during the school years. Someone in their late 20s or early 30s would have a greater history of events to reflect upon, similarly a 60 year old would introspect on his /her prime years and you might as well hear them say, “Ye baal dhoop me safed nahi kiye humne.”
To the teenagers and the ones stepping into their 20s like me, elders would say that we have our whole lives ahead of us and that we have no idea as to what life really is. We on the other hand, would beg to differ and say that we have had our share of ups and downs in the 18-20 years that we have lived... making friendships, mending them, understanding relationships, realizing the true ones, misunderstandings, arguments, failures, career choices, dilemmas and so forth.
In that way, its strange that when you step inside the school for the first time, you have no idea what would you take with yourself when you leave that place 12 years later. We look back, and move on. Then there’s college. We are so excited to step into a new world. Three years pass and that phase too comes to an end. Then also, we take a look back, and move on. Post Graduation, Job, Marriage, Family..... and it goes on. There will be times when we will look back, reflect, and then move on, just like we did while riding that bicycle. Years that pass by teach us one thing for sure;
What We Have, or at least What We Used To Have.
Personally, I firmly believe that the life I’ve lived so far, especially the last few years, have taught me a lot, made me who I am today. Sometime back, I wrote a post here as to what my life has taught me so far. Now that I reflect upon those things, those events, those relationships, some of which exist even now, while some of them faded away with time, I look back upon them, smile and move on.
That’s what we all do. That’s what we all did. That’s what we all will continue to do.
You didn’t look back just when you started the ride, but when you had come a long way through. Usain Bolt, at times, looks back to see his closest competitor, towards the end of the race, not when he has just begun. So my point is, you look back on things when you feel you’ve come a long way through. I for instance, being a 20 year old, at times, look back upon things that happened during infancy and during the school years. Someone in their late 20s or early 30s would have a greater history of events to reflect upon, similarly a 60 year old would introspect on his /her prime years and you might as well hear them say, “Ye baal dhoop me safed nahi kiye humne.”
In that way, its strange that when you step inside the school for the first time, you have no idea what would you take with yourself when you leave that place 12 years later. We look back, and move on. Then there’s college. We are so excited to step into a new world. Three years pass and that phase too comes to an end. Then also, we take a look back, and move on. Post Graduation, Job, Marriage, Family..... and it goes on. There will be times when we will look back, reflect, and then move on, just like we did while riding that bicycle. Years that pass by teach us one thing for sure;
What We Have, or at least What We Used To Have.
Personally, I firmly believe that the life I’ve lived so far, especially the last few years, have taught me a lot, made me who I am today. Sometime back, I wrote a post here as to what my life has taught me so far. Now that I reflect upon those things, those events, those relationships, some of which exist even now, while some of them faded away with time, I look back upon them, smile and move on.
That’s what we all do. That’s what we all did. That’s what we all will continue to do.
Until next time...
Take care :)
Take care :)
