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This blog is about something everyone would have faced once in a while when driving on your way to office. I would not be disclosing any further on this and without much ado urge you to read this at one stretch…..
This blog is about something everyone would have faced once in a while when driving on your way to office. I would not be disclosing any further on this and without much ado urge you to read this at one stretch…..
Imagine a sultry Monday morning, you are on the way to office in your car. Apparently the a/c seems to be non-operational due to the extreme temperature outside.The newspaper said today was going to be the hottest day of the month. You check your fuel gauge, happy to see that it is well above the half way mark… the radio plays your favourite song by Shaggy “in the summer time”....so far so good.
There’s a meeting with an important client at 10.30 am in your office but the traffic seems to have taken a vow to not let you reach even an hour after that. Still, slow and steady you continue to wriggle through the jam…You are running out of time and cannot afford to be late for this meeting for which your client has agreed after for after six months of continuous follow up. The traffic isn't opening up yet...Can anything worse happen than this?
You are mentally preparing for the important meeting…suddenly you see your car wobbling vigorously. Oops, the front tyre on the driver’s side has gone flat.
You are in the middle of the road blocking the traffic. People have already started honking and staring at you intensely for a crime you haven’t really intended to commit. You finally reached to one side of the road by pushing the car alone in the sweltering heat. Your clothes are already in a mess and truly unworthy of being worn for any meeting. You are sweating profusely in the humid Delhi Summer cursing your luck thinking can anything worse than this happen?
No sign of shade, still in the sun, you try and fix the flat tyre yourself…half way through, the last of the 4 nuts refuses to give way…palms greased, forehead sweating..stuck in the middle of nowhere....can something worse than this happen?
You search for your mobile to find the number of the car breakdown helpline. The line happens to be continuously engaged…and then, without any warning, your mobile goes off….You had forgotten to charge your mobile last evening and now the battery is dead….hello, you still haven’t called your client to tell him regarding the delay of your arrival. Can anything worse than this happen?
Your agony doesn’t seem to be ending…you left your wallet at home today. You were in a hurry to reach office and in the rush forget to pick it up. Can anything worse than this happen?
You tell yourself to “keep cool’….how is it possible? Nothing seems to be going your way…what to do now?
You try and get your thoughts together….you go through your laptop bag to find your mobile charger. Fortunately your laptop is charged today….so first things first…you put your mobile on charging and call up your client to postpone the meeting.
One headache less, but still you have a flat tyre to deal with. You rummage through your coat pockets and find some loose change in your coat pockets….Now your mind has started working….you remember crossing a petrol pump just 100m behind…so you lock your car, walk to the petrol pump, get hold of a helper to change the flat tyre..
Ten minutes later, you are back on your own….the traffic is nowhere to be found. You quickly take an U-turn to rush back home to change your attire into something cleaner.
Even after all these roadblocks, you manage to reach office 1 hour late…..considering what you underwent to reach office today, things look pretty much on track and you are ready to handle the next big problem…
I am sure by the time you are reading this, there would be hundred questions in your mind…what if the charger wasn’t there, what if you didn’t have some money in your coat pocket…what if the client didn’t agree to postpone the meeting….I don’t know how but I am sure we would have still managed from that situation somehow…I leave those options for your imagination…
I leave you with this beautiful short story shared with me by my dear friend Amitesh Arun. This one’s titled “Life is like a cup of coffee”. You are drinking coffee and there’s nobody at home…you find the coffee bitter and out of sheer laziness continue sipping into your bitter coffee…..while you are about to take the last sip, you see a lump of sugar nicely settled at the base of the cup….how do you feel then? The sugar was always there in the cup….That’s how life is sometimes…all it requires is to just stir it enough once.
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Good One Bhupesh. Really nice to see resonating thoughts to come in from friends like you..
ReplyDeleteSo well said Bhupesh
ReplyDeleteYour are right sir, Nothing is impossible just be positive....
ReplyDeletesuperb.....positive thinking really helps in every situation but there is something more i can share if u are interested, How to b positive in every given situation?
ReplyDeleteSir- its really Good One !!!!
ReplyDeleteGreat Bhupesh - well said. There's always two ways of dealing with any kind of situation and positive one always helps :)
ReplyDeleteIts like all has started well on a good note and then a bump of worst things happening at the same time.........
ReplyDeleteGrt Sir.............Positive thinking really help to get out of any situation........positive energy give you gud ways to do grt things.........
ReplyDeleteGenerally people tends to loose their composure at these critical moments... but if they keep their cool they can overcome all the difficulties.
ReplyDeleteWhen we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.
The example of coffee and sugar is awesome...
"Well Said" - Anything can be achieved with positive mind-set.
ReplyDeleteNice well written and well said.........always encouraging as you were back in the college days.........i think that's what always made you a team leader. Do keep writing.......its motivating and encouraging :)
ReplyDeleteGreat writing Bhupi !! This is what is called law of attraction..earlier the guy you mentioned above was attracting all bad things ..as he would be fearful to be late for office and seeing the traffic iam sure he must have thoughts of getting late to work...it happens !!.
ReplyDeleteA Buddha and one of his follower ..few years back reached a village ..it was getting late and chilly ...Buddha asked his follower what to do, should we sleep in the park..after eating what we will get from begging. They both went to the park and Buddha started meditating, after few minutes he opened his eyes and smilingly said to his follower that today they will sleep in a 5 star hotel and have their dinner in hotel only. Follower couldn't believe it, they both moved out to the city there and went to a 5 star hotel ..to utter surprise the manager of the hotel who was a pleasant guy ..approached the buddha and his follower with a smile and said to them -: It seems you guys are priests and would not have anything to pay for hotel room expenses..you just have to clean few utensils in the bargain you stay in the room and have food.
Follower was astonished ... Then buddha preached him that everything is made up of energy !! so it was a "Thought" to stay here pushed me into this hotel room !!!!!
At the end !! Good thoughts always attract good things !! Think good attaract good !!
All’s well that ends well.
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