Box of Chocolates

Life ….this word has always been the center of attraction for all those who have been longing to make sense out of each moment. Well that includes me as well.

One fine day I was enjoying celluloid named “FOREST GUMP” and I must admit that it was a real piece of art. Worth all the Oscars it bagged!!!

Let me not get into the details.

While I was enjoying each incidence flawlessly crafted with the blend of real talent (for both, actor and director) there was a punch that shook my bones…Let me project the frame …here is our actor sitting on the park bench trying to have a chat with an unknown female who is waiting for the next bus…. Our actor is holding a box of chocolate and then he tells the female, “My mama told me ….Forest life is a box of chocolates…you never know what you get…” This statement woke me to think back.

Now how serene and true is this…thinking for a second we will agree on two facts…..one, chocolates are loved by all ages and the next chocolate tastes more delicious than the first one….YUM….and the second is our life is full of surprises’….the cuisine of spice offered by life may bring tears or smiles to our faces….but the fact remains thatlife takes care of everyone, no one keeps has any taste for life long… else the balance will topple….

Now how many times have we asked ourselves ...What am I doing? Where is life talking me? What do I want? Why am I in pain? Why do I see people happy and why can’t I be the same? What do I do to make people who love me happy? What’s wrong with me? Why just I don’t die to settle every thing once and for all?

Striking!!! No one can deny these questions….and why should one because sometime or the other we all have come across these questions…and the common part amongst all of us is, these feelings head strong when we feel LOW…or we want peace…we raise these queries and wait for our conscious to answers all these mind boggling queries.

I won’t say this is insane …. No it is not…it can’t be….but all I can tell is, this is what life offers … a variety of taste in life….it is not permanent and I can assure that …just few taste …obviously bitter stays longer…or looks to stay longer…now why is that ??The rules is simple and crystal clear….we try to question each moment of sadness or loneliness but we forget to live each moment of happiness…and once the happy phase is over… tough time knocks our doors we feel how can God be so cruel…can’t I have just few days in my life filled with happiness…. Think again…why we feel so heavy when the phase is bitter because we are always aiming for the other phase and till the point we don’t get it we keep on lingering to the fact that think are never going to be PERFECT in my life…and once the phase changes we have to question again stating, I get what I want after burning my blood and soul….

I do ask myself what is right and wrong and how to face each moment …. But believe me or not its not easy to get answers …on the contrary it is not impossible too….

I know myself better than anyone else and I know how to motivate myself. For this you may need company of dear once…but the real motivation lives inside us and that I keep with me always, which provide me the strength to judge between right and wrong…good and bad…and it also stands by me, pumps me up to face the toughest moment of life.

Coming back to our Box of chocolates, let’s remember for a second the happiest moment and the saddest moment in our lives …. Think ….now what would have struck all of us…I know its hard to recollect more than a couple of happy moments ….but the queue of the moments that almost made you drown in your own tears are over whelming….why is that…how it can be a balance….But the answer is within us….whenever a happy, joyous moment or incidence occurs we try and weigh it….in a measure of small or exemplary ….but when the situation is adverse…we have to agree, it seems to be the toughest….so who is overlooking the balance….

Ask yourself questions…and give it time to find answers…and never loose trust in yourself nor question it….if you know yourself ….which is always far more informative and reliable than any individual can provide….you can keep the faith alive and I know you can sail in life….but never bother about the tides….remember you can meet a shark or find the treasure of pearls …..For you never know….what the box of chocolates has to offer…..