I was walking along the Besant
Nagar Beach, in Chennai last Saturday evening. The waves were washing the
shores and the moon was going into an eclipse, which perhaps was the longest
known eclipse ever. I was at the beach enjoying the serene calm and cooling off
a week’s pressure.
Walking through the beautiful walkways
I found small kids moving on wheelchairs. They were mentally and physically
challenged. There was such a lot of pain in their eyes. These kids were finding
it so difficult carrying themselves but still they had the best smiles to their
friends at the beach. They greeted people they knew, they spoke to them on the
walkway and they also took efforts to make friends with the animals on the
beach. I was deeply touched. My heart felt so heavy and it was an eye
opener. I thought how thankless I was to
crib about pressure which only came because of work, or something trivial like
that.
Friends, a few days ago I read
Pareto’s 80-20 principle. How true it is even in life. We are the blessed who
have 80% right in life. We can talk, we can see the beauty of life, we can hear
the love in the air, but yet we crib about the 20% we do not have. 20% of
things we don’t have eclipse the 80% we already have and then we crib. My dear
friends, those people at the beach are also human and they enjoy life thanking
God for the fact that they are alive. Why is it that we forget to enjoy when we
have got the best in life?
2 comments:
For people who have 80% of best life, the 20% of hardship looks like 80%.
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