Connecting the Dots

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"Vasuooooooooo, बेटा Vasuuuoooooo.... उठ जा । पढ़ाई कर ले ।.... आज History  का Board  Exam  है । एक बार revision और कर ले नहीं तो fail  होजायेगा ।"

सुबह के 5  बज रहे थे । मार्च का टाइम था । रात में, so  called, 12 बजे तक पढ़ाई कर के थक हार के सोया था । सुबह सुबह माँ को मेरे boards  की ज़्यादा चिन्ता थी । उनको पता था कि अगर मैं आज सोता रहा तो पक्का FAIL होना "Guaranteed" है । 

"बेटा, Engineering  करले, future अच्छा बनेगा ।" Similarly, मेरे पिताजी को भी मेरे future की मुझसे ज़्यादा prediction थी । 

"Vasu, अब तू शादी करले, पता नहीं मैं तेरी शादी देख भी पाऊँगी या नहीं ।" अम्मा को भी मेरा future पता था, पर ख़ुद का नहीं । सो, शादी भी हो गयी । 

"Vasu, आप मुझसे लिखवा लो, नौकरी तो आप यहाँ ही करोगे । मेरी gut-feeling कहती है ।" कमाल की बात है, बीवी ने भी मेरे future को predict करने की महारथ हासिल करी हुई है । 

"Papa ......sit, sheeeet " … अब बेटा भी बताने लग गया कि मैं क्या करने वाला हूँ !!

All-in-all , except me, everybody knew about my future so correctly that sometimes I thought कि "WTF" मुझे ही नहीं दिखता "What next"?

But after joining all these small-small dots since the time I am able to collect them, opening my childhood गुल्लक , removing the dust from my teenage, cleaning the canvases of maturity, there is a beautiful picture being drawn. And as usual, I am unable to visualize the exact "Picture-to-frame", maybe like most of us do. Most of us might not know why or what about life questions, but I think all these instances of life, birth, in THAT only house, with a set of RELATIVES, making friends and enemies on the way, building ever-lasting memories, some fade, some stick, some get embed in heart-and-mind, remember people we meet, people who forget us, people whom we want to meet and talk but cannot, people who want to meet and talk to us but cannot....colleges, hostel, offices, meetings, events, life-partner, whatever it may be....all have a reason to be there in their place at that time. Looking back on time, things happening, life changing, falling, leaving, collecting and then moving...all have a reason. No matter how happy the moments were or how throbbing the experience was, they build us to what we are today, to what we are destined to, to what we have to fulfill our purpose because of which we are here.

Joining the dots, LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL...all happened for a reason to make us learn what we were uneducated of, to get experience which we would not have understood without going through it, to lead by example and make others' life beautiful in one way or the other.

Friends, whatever may have happened as good or bad, there was a reason which we might not understand now, but later, we understand that it had to happen in that way only because that was the only way for it to happen. So, enjoy and cherish what we have today, because tomorrow that also might not be there with you. Thank people! Help them! Cover-up grudges, approach those whom you wanted to but couldn't, do what your heart says...

GIVE! TRY!! TAKE RISKS!!! INCREASE PATIENCE!!!! HAVE FAITH IN WHAT YOU DO!!!!!

"THE SECRET SAUCE TO SUCCESS AND HAPPINESS"