And while I sipped my tea today, it suddenly struck me! A parallel for life. Well..I must say, yet another parallel for life. Quoting Shakespeare.. "All world's a stage.." but it could as well be altered to apply to a single lifetime. The people entering your life being actors in the drama, you.. but a mere observer with little control if any, with God (for the believers) as the director. Hmm..that was an interesting thought in itself..but I'm digressing..Maybe another time on this issue.
What the magic of caffeine brought to my mind was..Life really..is very much like Karaoke! You have your lines written down for you, the songs fixed, and only when you sing along with the tune with the right words, does it sound melodious. So now you know what I am going to say next..Aaah...the parallel between who writes the lines, who fits in the tune, is not of interest to me today. The bottomline is..Here we are, stuck with this song...and with these words, and all we can do is to sing!! And when we have the right words, for the right song..there! That makes a pleasant song..a satisfied life. Coz, we really have no other choice but to sing to those tunes that destiny has etched out for us. And maybe the grass always seems to be greener on the other side because each one of us is given this primitive Karaoke machine with a mutually exclusive set of melodies. Thus, making each existence unique. Beautiful in its own way. Some of us are made to win Nobel prizes, some end up never ever applying what they gained either through education or experience and others hang somewhere in between, catching up with life. I agree I'm being very cynical classifying lives in this manner, but being ordinary has its own charm in my view. A more balanced splurge on the being.
Having said that, people like me really wish the Karaoke machine got a little more sophisticated with just more choice!! Yes, its the same frustration I felt when my hub decided to buy me a Karaoke system on the 100th day of our wedding and all I found were these ancient boxes that could only play a given set of songs. But as all other things which I fail to find, I decided.."Maybe I should shop around a little more!" And that is exactly what each one of us does in the process of finding the perfect life..search and dream for tunes that would bring in more spice, more zeal and charm to this merry-go-round, praying for a little more control on our actions, and hoping that one day it will all get better than it is right now!
1 comment:
Well written. Very much my thoughts. Only difference being that I have stopped seeking control. Sometimes He(or Whoever) puts you in the driver's seat at other times you are not. Good analogy. All you can do is sing along.
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