PERFECTLY IMPERFECT

Imagine if this world was a different place. If life was a garden and we could just pluck or pick whatever we want rather than trying every bit to survive life’s impositions. If everything could be controlled by a magical wand and we were the rulers of our world. If nothing in this universe could affect us and we could monitor our psyches. If every family was a happy family, every child was genius, everyone could find true love, every marriage was successful, there were no failures and fights, every businessman made profits, and everyone enjoyed good health. It, indeed, would have been very different to be a part of such a hunky-dory world.

But this world would have deprived us of some silly things. Yes! I mean stupid things like the anxiety before the declaration of result and elation on an achievement, insignificant things like listening to the complications in our friend’s love stories and lending the worst possible advice, petty things like scratching our heads for solving a problem and cursing the geek in class who does it, the pain of rising item prices in canteen and sadistic pleasure on posting controversial tweets. Thrill, excitement, dreams, adventure, challenges, dilemmas, chaos, spontaneity would be nowhere in the picture. But wouldn’t life be pretty monotonous in such a world.

Now imagine life is a game and there is nothing to lose because whether you win or not, you can have your share of fun. If you win its fine, if you don’t the game is really interesting. If only we detach ourselves from our life for a while and be an audience to it, we can realize how each moment in life adds meaning to it. Time stands witness to the fact that nobody in this world has been happy and successful through his whole life. But there have been people who have lived without regrets and complaints and there lies the essence of life.

All these random thoughts indicated to me that this world could not have been better. Whatever situation, circumstances or conditions we are put into, we just need to be ourselves and ready to experience the most out of it.

“To love life is to live life”