Life’s Jerks
As I sit down to key in a thought, which has been running in my mind for ages together, I am thinking of many people who would have crossed all these jerks and settled happily in their cozy coffins, deep down the earth, with a completion of all the jerks that they might have undergone in life.
Now what do I call as jerks in life? Pondering on this thought. For a kid who is just 10 years old, his mother’s advice on behavior and dad’s advice on life would be a big jerk or a jolt. He would find it tough to undergo such things in life, for him, his parents are just a big bore who, keep on advising things to him. Hardly does he understand that it is for his own life that they have been advising him on. For that kid at that age it is a jerk, when his dad catches hold of him and starts on his big lecture on life and future, he would seem like an alien from an UFO. Well this is on the lighter side.
Creeping into the hard mysteries of life, the jerks that we meet up in life. For example things that we badly are in need of, desperate, at the heights of frustration, we beg and pray to God for that to be granted. And lo! There is a jerk, a sudden break, you feel that the thought that you had in your mind is till in your mind, but God has showed a big yellow signal, a halt sign to it. There is a jolt you curse yourself for it, wonder why such things happen only to you. After all you could have been wishing for it for ages together. When there is a sudden halt we tend to start cursing all our ill fates, and start questioning WHY ME GOD?
Now I don’t want to get into philosophy neither blasphemy. These are just my thoughts and my personal experiences. Whenever I met up with a jerk a sudden jolt in my life, I just look up to the sky and ask WHY ME? Just like most of us. But hardly did I realize that these things are for my own good. Have you ever seen a pebble? Have you ever wondered how did it come to existence? It is just a hard rock on the riverbed, which undergoes so many jolts, harsh treatments, gets washed off, even deported to another place from where it was originally placed in. But finally when it reaches its destination, it becomes a very beautiful shinny, pebble, which most of us admire. We human beings are also hard rocks like this. Majority of us are very hard, may be bad looking appearance, some may be good looking too ;), some with badly cut shapes, some perfect in shape and size, all of us undergo this jerk, jolts, whatever kind of rock you are, an expensive multibillionaire, or an ordinary software engineer.
Well all that we have to remember is the more jolts or jerks that we meet in life we get into the best shape for the future. The more jolts the more polished pebble you become. For example, a friend of mine had some deformity in her leg from birth. She used to crib on it, and always question WHY ME? What harm did I do? Why should this happen to me? Well I agree her childhood was a misery, as she kept on cribbing over the deformity and never mingled with others. But she never understood that she is being shaped for the future, to become a beautiful pebble. She excelled in her studies, in spite of her cribbing. Now she is heading an MNC as a marketing manager, happily married and blessed with children. She was a rock of a different shape, a different cut, and she had to undergo so many troubles before becoming a beautiful pebble.
Now you can site many such pebbles in your life. Talking about it I know a gentle man, who is in a very honorable position in the Indian government. He hailed from a small village, a real rock indeed. Through his hard work and dedication entered the Indian government service. Happily married with two children. Life was very good for him, until a day when he was hospitalized for a massive heart attack. It was not just once, four attacks, which he survived. When I met him he asked, the same words which almost all of us would ask WHY ME? Well most of the time when pain knocks our door we don’t let it in, no body not even me, who advocates so much to accept pain would ever welcome pain to my house. Why is this? We are scared, of the miseries that we have to undergo. Now for this gentleman he had commitments in life, he had two daughters whom he had to get them married.
None of us are saints to say I accept pain in life. But, we fail to understand one thing, when we accept pain in life; life becomes easier. I am just reminded of a famous jargon in bodybuilding, “ No Pain No Gain” i.e. when you exercise rigorously, the next day the area where you have concentrated in the workout would pain. This just shows that you have exercised well. So only when you get the pain you gain. Only when a mother suffers the trauma of delivering a baby can she bring a beautiful creature to this world. Pain is something, which all of us should learn to accept. It is one process, which lets us shape into a pebble form a hard cut rock.
These jerks and jolts in life are very common for any living being. Be it a human or even an animal. Just that we being humans have learnt to brood over it a lot and we know to express it, while the animals don’t. So whenever you meet up with a jolt or a red signal, it doesn’t mean that you will have to feel for it and brood, it just means that’s not the path, which God has created for you. He who had created you knows how tough a being you are whether you can undergo a rough harsh path or a much easier path before you become a pebble. But remember the more roughness you undergo, the more sane and inward beauty you gain.
So learn to live life with a smile, cross all the jerks that God has planned for you, and become that beautiful pebble, that He had created you to be.
Now what do I call as jerks in life? Pondering on this thought. For a kid who is just 10 years old, his mother’s advice on behavior and dad’s advice on life would be a big jerk or a jolt. He would find it tough to undergo such things in life, for him, his parents are just a big bore who, keep on advising things to him. Hardly does he understand that it is for his own life that they have been advising him on. For that kid at that age it is a jerk, when his dad catches hold of him and starts on his big lecture on life and future, he would seem like an alien from an UFO. Well this is on the lighter side.
Creeping into the hard mysteries of life, the jerks that we meet up in life. For example things that we badly are in need of, desperate, at the heights of frustration, we beg and pray to God for that to be granted. And lo! There is a jerk, a sudden break, you feel that the thought that you had in your mind is till in your mind, but God has showed a big yellow signal, a halt sign to it. There is a jolt you curse yourself for it, wonder why such things happen only to you. After all you could have been wishing for it for ages together. When there is a sudden halt we tend to start cursing all our ill fates, and start questioning WHY ME GOD?
Now I don’t want to get into philosophy neither blasphemy. These are just my thoughts and my personal experiences. Whenever I met up with a jerk a sudden jolt in my life, I just look up to the sky and ask WHY ME? Just like most of us. But hardly did I realize that these things are for my own good. Have you ever seen a pebble? Have you ever wondered how did it come to existence? It is just a hard rock on the riverbed, which undergoes so many jolts, harsh treatments, gets washed off, even deported to another place from where it was originally placed in. But finally when it reaches its destination, it becomes a very beautiful shinny, pebble, which most of us admire. We human beings are also hard rocks like this. Majority of us are very hard, may be bad looking appearance, some may be good looking too ;), some with badly cut shapes, some perfect in shape and size, all of us undergo this jerk, jolts, whatever kind of rock you are, an expensive multibillionaire, or an ordinary software engineer.
Well all that we have to remember is the more jolts or jerks that we meet in life we get into the best shape for the future. The more jolts the more polished pebble you become. For example, a friend of mine had some deformity in her leg from birth. She used to crib on it, and always question WHY ME? What harm did I do? Why should this happen to me? Well I agree her childhood was a misery, as she kept on cribbing over the deformity and never mingled with others. But she never understood that she is being shaped for the future, to become a beautiful pebble. She excelled in her studies, in spite of her cribbing. Now she is heading an MNC as a marketing manager, happily married and blessed with children. She was a rock of a different shape, a different cut, and she had to undergo so many troubles before becoming a beautiful pebble.
Now you can site many such pebbles in your life. Talking about it I know a gentle man, who is in a very honorable position in the Indian government. He hailed from a small village, a real rock indeed. Through his hard work and dedication entered the Indian government service. Happily married with two children. Life was very good for him, until a day when he was hospitalized for a massive heart attack. It was not just once, four attacks, which he survived. When I met him he asked, the same words which almost all of us would ask WHY ME? Well most of the time when pain knocks our door we don’t let it in, no body not even me, who advocates so much to accept pain would ever welcome pain to my house. Why is this? We are scared, of the miseries that we have to undergo. Now for this gentleman he had commitments in life, he had two daughters whom he had to get them married.
None of us are saints to say I accept pain in life. But, we fail to understand one thing, when we accept pain in life; life becomes easier. I am just reminded of a famous jargon in bodybuilding, “ No Pain No Gain” i.e. when you exercise rigorously, the next day the area where you have concentrated in the workout would pain. This just shows that you have exercised well. So only when you get the pain you gain. Only when a mother suffers the trauma of delivering a baby can she bring a beautiful creature to this world. Pain is something, which all of us should learn to accept. It is one process, which lets us shape into a pebble form a hard cut rock.
These jerks and jolts in life are very common for any living being. Be it a human or even an animal. Just that we being humans have learnt to brood over it a lot and we know to express it, while the animals don’t. So whenever you meet up with a jolt or a red signal, it doesn’t mean that you will have to feel for it and brood, it just means that’s not the path, which God has created for you. He who had created you knows how tough a being you are whether you can undergo a rough harsh path or a much easier path before you become a pebble. But remember the more roughness you undergo, the more sane and inward beauty you gain.
So learn to live life with a smile, cross all the jerks that God has planned for you, and become that beautiful pebble, that He had created you to be.
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