REVISIT YOURSELF

After such a long time in recent days has something touched me so profoundly that I felt the urge to write it down. Lines so crisp and clear that everyone will understand and agree. These lines also bring forth the strategy which I devised for myself when I was in twelfth (ab lagta hai bachpan k din the).

Those days used to be simple... very simple....only a YES / NO was to be decided and you are done. You had just two options right or wrong. But as the days moved on simplicity gave way to complexity... Now you have a whole lot of things to worry about:

Family and career (are always on the list… the new additions are)

Friends who care for you

Friends who show they care for you

Friends & teachers whom you have to care for (it’s an obligation) and the list rolls on... 

NOTE: ye vichar kisi vyakti vishesh ko nahi darshate… :p

It was a bit tough till I revisited myself...yes, the same old little myself, simple and straight who cared for no one when she knew, she was right. This made almost everything fall into place.

You must be wondering, HOW??? So friends do...

Revisit Yourself

When you get what you want in your struggle for self,

and world makes you king for a day.

Just go to a mirror & look at yourself,

and see what that man has to say.

For it isn't your father or mother or spouse,

whose judgment upon you must pass.

The fellow whose verdict counts most in your life,

is the one staring back from the glass.

Some people might think you are a straight shooting chum,

and call you a wonderful guy.

But the man in the glass says you're only a bum,

if you can't look straight in the eye.

He's the fellow to please, leave out all the rest,

for he's with you up to the end.

And you have passed the toughest test,

if the man in the glass is your friend.

You may fool the whole world down your pathway of years,

and get pats on the back as you pass.

But your final reward will be guilt and tears,

if you have cheated the man in the glass.

- Anonymous (I am not the one who penned down these beautiful lines)

Yes if you cheated yourself no one else will ever know but you'll do (hopefully...if you are a genuine person). From my childhood days I have been taught-

A pillow of clear conscience affords the soundest sleep.

If you look the other way round... if you had too many options, how would you choose? Ask papa or mama or anyone else. But none can answer perfectly as the path has to be traversed by you, the goal has to be set by you, choices have to be chosen by you… as at the end of the day you won't get the chance to travel again nor it would be worth putting blame on your fellas who led you to that path.

So just rise face yourself and decide what is appropriate for you. As at the end you'll be revisiting yourself where you'll be just answerable to YOURSELF.