LIFE

I have always loved thinking and philosophizing about LIFE. But it was only when I started talking to people about my thoughts that I realized that I’m not yet qualified to talk about life. If you wish to talk about life and your theories on life, pause and see if you fulfill the following criteria

Age: you must be at least in your 40’s or min. late 30’s. Meaning, you have to be sufficiently aged to get the approving nod of your listener or reader.

Experience: You must have had enough troubles in your life so far, perils of fate rather that outcomes of your own deeds.

Anybody who doesn’t satisfy the above conditions and still wish to cerebrate on life would be subject to “How much have you seen life” looks from the venerable!

Whenever life poses a difficulty and you are mentally and emotionally down, the so called experienced hands tell you”ithonnum onnum alla..Jeevitham thudangiyathalle ullu,,,ini enthokke varaan kidakkunnu” (This is nothing. You have just started life. Troubles are yet to come). Please…it’s not as exciting as saying “picture abhi baaki hai bhai”

Everyone has a right to voice their thoughts on life, be it a kid, teen, youth…. One should not belittle another’s trouble, dismissing it by saying bigger troubles will come your way as you grow up.

An issue is an issue, be it big or small. How can you expect one to deal with a crisis by rationally thinking that one might have to face bigger issues in life later on? 

It is true that as you grow old you realize that what was once a big issue is no more an issue. But does that mean that you can tell a person to stop worrying about what’s bothering him this moment.

How good a solution is the advice laden with a prospective future filled with bigger issues? How can it be even remotely connected to the maxims of ‘Think Positive’?

I don’t know if any of this makes any sense. But the very fact that I could put this down itself is a great relief. Sometimes that’s all one I need, simply rant about life and ones my troubles.