CrossRoads

I was browsing through a book called “The road less traveled” by Scott Peck. The very first sentence shook the ground beneath my feet. The sentence contained just 3 words, 3 very powerful words. “Life is difficult.”

So bloody true. Who said life has to be simple? We all want our lives to be perfect. When its not we start cribbing. But what is the fun if we don’t have challenges?

I was wondering what is that makes life difficult? After a little thought I realized that its “choices” is one of the primary reasons that makes life difficult.

When we think our lives are going on smoothly, we hit a cross road. In the first place it is quite difficult to take a decision because all the choices we have in front of us have pros and cons. The perfect option is never there. Like Alanis Morissette says in one of her songs: “It’s like having ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife”.

After careful consideration we take a decision on one choice. Sometimes events happen the exact same way we expect it to and the rest of the times it is a total letdown of our anticipation.

We get upset and start wondering why we never chose the other options which we had discarded. And the next time we are in another crossroad we call it a problem.

If things don’t work out the way we want it to, we still have a “choice”. A choice to either feel sad or to embrace the truth and move on or be happy that we had an enriching experience. We may lose or we may win but we will never be here again. So let us look at what we have in life and be happy; instead of feeling sad, searching for something we don’t have.