Saturday, March 5, 2011

Take responsibility

Recently I came across the book named "License to live" written by Priya Kumar.

Though I had never heard of the writer or the book, I just bought the book.

The book is a short novel about someone who is lost in corporate maze. Her situation is similar to all the people who have achieved every professional success at a very short age, who has fulfilled all their dreams and they do not know what next? Those who think that they have all the happiness they have ever craved for in their life and yet they are not happy. It’s about a person who has lost the very purpose of living.

And then she meets someone she thinks who can change her life.
Through that person she is able to view her future, in fact multiple and drastically different versions. Few are really something that she wants to be where she is happy and content with her life and few that does not want to be where she has lost complete control of her life. There she realizes that any of these futures can be hers provided she works towards it.

Then she comes across her Past. The parts of past which she wants to bury because she has not been able to forgive herself for those parts of the past. Though she is very successful at present but the burden of past is not allowing her to enjoy the fruits of hard work. There she realizes that she has to let go of the past so that she can be happy in present.

But the most difficult part comes when she meets her present. Then she finds herself in time trap as she is never living in her present. She can see the reflections of her past and the imagination of her future but not her present. There she accepts the fact that she has to take responsibility. Only if she takes responsibility of her present, she can make her future better and she will not have anything to regret about the past.

While reading the book, though the situation was very hypothetical, I was able to relate to most of the parts of the book. So many times we are so worried about tomorrow that we forget to live today. We forget that today’s conscious effort will make a better tomorrow and a better yesterday.

So Many time we have a simple excuse "I hardly find time to do this" or "I am too busy" but we forget the fact that everyone in the world gets same 24 hours in a day. We compare ourselves with our neighbors/competitors and complain that they have got too many resources which I do not have. But we forget that even we have a number of resources which they do not have.

Life gives equal opportunities to everyone in some way or other and it’s up to us how we make use of those opportunities.