(Highly suggest you both listen and read!)
Here is the typical bus waiting scenario: You step out of your house, happy that you are on time. Walk up to the bus stop, knowing that it is going to be your day. And then you reach the bus stop and no bus has arrived yet. It's okay, you tell yourself. It'll take five minutes at least. So you wait. And then it's ten minutes. So you tell yourself that Kuchh paane ke liye kuchh khona padta hai (to achieve something you must lose something). And wait for five more. Buses come and go, all except the one that you want. You think, I've waited for fifteen, just five more can't hurt. And while you're anxious about whether you'll reach on time or not, you stretch. And if the bus still doesn't arrive, you put your ego on the side and take a taxi. Or if you're stubborn, probably wait a little more till the bus finally arrives and it's crowded but you push yourself to get in, or like I said before, take a taxi.
And it may sound funny, but this event is synonymous with so many in life. We're always waiting. Waiting for the right person to come by, waiting for the right person to like us back, waiting for the right person to change his/her mind about the decisions that they have taken. We wait for our jobs to get better, for an interest to develop, and for the results of our perseverance to kick in. We're taught that time heals and fixes everything, and that if you work hard and really ask the universe for something, the universe will hear it and hand it over to you. But you have to keep wanting it and projecting everything you feel realistically yet positively.
Yet the truth is that time cannot always fix things for you. And sometimes irrespective of how much you want something, and how much you actively work for it, and wish for it with as much optimism as you can muster......it just isn't in your control. And that is hard to swallow. It sucks to not be able to be in control of something that is important to you.
And that is why you need to know your breaking point. You need to know whether you want to wait for ten, fifteen, or twenty minutes. And once that time is up, for your own mental peace, you need to take that taxi and move on in life to other things that are waiting for you.
Because at that point, do you even have a choice?
Kanksha
Here is the typical bus waiting scenario: You step out of your house, happy that you are on time. Walk up to the bus stop, knowing that it is going to be your day. And then you reach the bus stop and no bus has arrived yet. It's okay, you tell yourself. It'll take five minutes at least. So you wait. And then it's ten minutes. So you tell yourself that Kuchh paane ke liye kuchh khona padta hai (to achieve something you must lose something). And wait for five more. Buses come and go, all except the one that you want. You think, I've waited for fifteen, just five more can't hurt. And while you're anxious about whether you'll reach on time or not, you stretch. And if the bus still doesn't arrive, you put your ego on the side and take a taxi. Or if you're stubborn, probably wait a little more till the bus finally arrives and it's crowded but you push yourself to get in, or like I said before, take a taxi.
And it may sound funny, but this event is synonymous with so many in life. We're always waiting. Waiting for the right person to come by, waiting for the right person to like us back, waiting for the right person to change his/her mind about the decisions that they have taken. We wait for our jobs to get better, for an interest to develop, and for the results of our perseverance to kick in. We're taught that time heals and fixes everything, and that if you work hard and really ask the universe for something, the universe will hear it and hand it over to you. But you have to keep wanting it and projecting everything you feel realistically yet positively.
Yet the truth is that time cannot always fix things for you. And sometimes irrespective of how much you want something, and how much you actively work for it, and wish for it with as much optimism as you can muster......it just isn't in your control. And that is hard to swallow. It sucks to not be able to be in control of something that is important to you.
And that is why you need to know your breaking point. You need to know whether you want to wait for ten, fifteen, or twenty minutes. And once that time is up, for your own mental peace, you need to take that taxi and move on in life to other things that are waiting for you.
Because at that point, do you even have a choice?
Kanksha
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