Agreed, life is a game of blind, as in cards. Yet, sharpening your skills [you can], you can sense the thought and move of other person; or foresee what is brewing. And act accordingly.
Recall, how out of blue a biker intrudes between your speeding car and one ahead of yours, with a minimal gap in-between. Before you could read an impending danger, you wondered how in no time the biker left the foul position and escaped without being hit and survived. Some mysterious power was surely at work! Those often driving on highways at times do it blindly because of low visibility, abrupt appearance of a pedestrian interceptor from the partitioning hedge, or glare from the opposite direction. They understand, an abrupt halt may be too costly.
Do you remember how your marriage was fixed. What led you or your guardians ultimately settle for one vis-à-vis others. Did you anticipate or imagine the sort that you had to spend your life with? Out of several others in your vicinity eventually you drew closer and closer to a select few with passage of time! Thus, a circle was created of which you are a kingpin, and that stays.
You achieve what you seriously wanted: We fairly achieve what we dream and plan in earnest. That is normative. Yet realistic life doesn’t follow principle of logic or arithmetic. Accidents take place despite best of forethought, planning and precautions.
– In human procreation process, of the million potential sperms it is just any one or two that effectively coalesce with the female egg, fertilise and a new life comes to the fore.
– Food scientists warn us that a single infested grain in the entire lot, if ingested – which possibility is impossible to be ruled out – can be fatal.
– Many executive positions in establishment of any description require signing blindly on documents at a scale although a single error can land one into unending dispute or litigation or untold miseries.
Life is, and it is not, the game of blind: Life is a game of cards, yet we have capacity to hone up our skills, to sense how external factors shall act. Debate goes on what makes or mars us, whether it is outcome of our past Karmic deeds alone or its amalgamation with of plus application of or modifiable at our end.
Luminaries like C.V. Raman and others of his calibre, who recognised life as a series of game of blind, pleaded nevertheless to make decisions under uncertain conditions because growth is a conscious choice, which occurs by persistence ad infinitum, and aligning with higher powers.
Easy come, easy go: Hitting the Jackpot doesn’t define greatness. What is served you on a platter has little value; it’s not of abiding value. Only that matters what you earn.
The key to abiding is action. Staying hooked to the lottery, betting on electoral wins or rainfall count on a particular day is symptom of inaction. Nature, never in stagnant mode, doesn’t tolerate idling people hankering for too much too soon. Mermaids’ call has spelled only devastation. What ultimately counts is not the riches, shields or titles acquired but the to-do spirit, faith in providence and skills honed up with patience. A great sculptor is never in hurry to chisel the statue as each stroke guts and elaborate care.
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