Reflective Index

“The mirror never lies”, so it is believed. It reflects what is positioned in front of it. But suppose somebody artificially created something and then placed it in front of the mirror, what is the end result? The true reflection or the desired reflection of artificiality?

Many times we all are at cross roads. Cross roads compel us to be decisive no matter we like it or not. We have to decide. But is decision making such an easy process? There are enumerable factors to be considered, the pros and cons, subjectivity, objectivity, emotions, relations, near and dear ones, the not so near and dear ones, its overall impact …..Here one is pushed into thinking why one is where one really is.

Self reflection automatically comes into play. We start looking for answers to several perturbing questions. In the process of finding answers we encounter more never explored questions pertaining to our life. Its like opening a Pandora's Box. You are searching for something and you get your hands on something else which you had forgotten ever existed. This leads to a travail of other questions. In the hunt we actually forget what we had started to search at first place. So is this complex web….

The beneficial outcome of this is we realise that what we are today is a culmination of various activities we performed in this play of life. Various roles we delivered, some successfully others lamentingly bad. Some with utmost sincerity others with farce. Some that gave happiness to others and others that gave perpetual pain and sorrow. In the drama of things other characters too had  similar roles and impact on us. Those we thought were ours disappointed us to the hilt and those we thought had no place in our lives gave us peace beyond words.

Why do we fail to perceive people as they are good as good and bad as bad? Why do we fail to give importance to those who are here to play important roles in our lives and ignore those who will only give pain? Has this been done intentionally by the Director of this play? Why do we have to learn lessons the hard way? Why is the script open ended?

The answer probably is that that is the beauty of life. It is here that lies the mystery, curiosity and urge to lead our lives. Only outlines are provided we have a choice to fabricate a circle, square, cube ,rectangle, triangle etc out of these lines. We create squares expecting the outcome to be a circle and this trial and tribulation continues through out the journey. It is only through wrong creations that we realise what corrective measures to be taken to get the outcome of our expectations. But hold, the Director also intervenes several times and throws pleasant surprises at us. A gentle breeze that blows through our hair on a sweaty summer noon, the warm sunbeam on our shivering skin, the cool refreshing rain drops on a wounded soul, friendly smiles to a broken heart and helping hands when there was none.

Reflection is the antidote for all sufferings. We must reflect on our lives as often as we can. This self reflection helps us to have a flash back of this journey. We conclude what we did and what we should have done. This helps us to elevate ourselves to a higher plane. It acts as a guard for our future course. We may not be able to be in complete control of life but definitely we can make amends. We can make an effort not to repeat the same kind of mistakes. Whatever we do make sure that in the end the scenes put together make a story worth telling!