In the ridiculous month of May, I was trying to figure out the ways to stay calm even in the scorching heat. Waking up with an unnatural face, all drenched in the sweat and probably another spoiled morning, I ran into a commercial on the television which my father was watching very enthusiastically. “ Sanson Mein Zinda Dil Tazgi, Har Pal Hai Mere Liye, COLGATE GEL,” the ad was playing a piece of very energetic music, probably aimed for a rhetoric effect on its viewers.
I could hardly figure out the selective choices my father had but he was quite moved by the commercial, which I learned from the question he asked me. “ How much does this cost?” he asked. I replied, apathetically “ I don’t know.” He was merely affected by the exhausted expression I had on my face and continued the conversation.
“ How the time has already changed, I wonder!” said my father.
“ Hmm,” I replied with the sheer absurdity.
“ Unlike today we had less ambiguity in our childhoods.”
“Why are you being philosophical now?” I replied with a rigid annotation in my voice, trying to refrain from the discussion.
“ I’m not being philosophical; it was a contemporary statement, that will stand true to everyone.”
“ I know that, don’t teach me.”
With a meticulous voice, I began to leave the scene. Between those moments I noticed the continuous smile on my father’s face, which struck my mind for the rest of my day, with an unusual vagueness. The disturbed mind did not help me much in my daily routine, creating an unprecedented series of actions that were quite inaudacious. Whereas my father was very positive and efficient with his routine unlike me.
At night, ending all my speculations, I finally asked my father, “ Why were you smiling in the morning, while I was so rude to you?”
To my surprise, he answered, “ I smiled because I thought it's easy.” He went on doing his work with a smile again.
For many days it was a mystery for me to decode what he meant by his words until I did the same. It was quite obvious that his own set of thoughts were pretty much impactful on his everyday actions.
On many occasions, we find ourselves stuck in the morbid of shackled thoughts of dread feelings, and these thoughts are responsible for our unexplained activities in our day to day life. Kisike liye chand adhura hoke bhi pura hai, fir kisike liye pura hoke bhi adhura, that means some people are still happy with the less they have and some people are still unhappy with a lot in their own bucket.
What really pretty considerate here are the selective ways of looking at the purposeful thoughts we can have in our everyday life. We choose differently from the varying perception and often pick the seemingly easy but difficult choices like a beggar choosing to beg instead of working. Had there been an empirical approach towards the way of our daily life, we would already have made our life easier. But life is unapologetic for what it brings for us.
On a more contextual note, it's still unrecognized that a simple and easy thought every morning goes unnoticed by most of us, or maybe we ignore it like many others. A guy, who wakes up with an alluring idea of creating something new, does really have a significant impact on his everyday life than a guy who chooses not to have it. A ramming consequence we can get from this is selecting and building the choice of thoughts in a daily process that does shape our life on a bigger picture. Otherwise, the grasshopper wouldn’t have died in hunger while the ants enjoyed their meals in the winter.
