Acknowledgement

What do you feel when you see the ragged beggar? Sympathetic, Pitiful or something else? I feel lucky. I am sure I will have support on this answer too, though I may sound pretty unsympathetic. But to me the thought which follows is much more important. We should feel lucky and should immediately make a mental note about our luck so that whenever we crib next time about the worsening situations or about our helplessness, this mental note would come to the rescue. Believe me when I say that it has absolutely nothing to do with complacency. The thought would knock on the door of consciousness reminding us of the fact that since we are not in place of that beggar, we should acknowledge it and work harder to justify our luck. Personally I feel that I have spent a considerably chunk of time in my life cribbing about situations on which I have no control.

To make it more clear imagine two scenarios, a soldiers dies in the battle field and man walking on the road is suddenly hit by a truck, both die in an instant. But both had different price tag on their lives. I know the families of both will be equally bereft but then, dying for a purpose will always be superior than dying for nothing. And so if in case the person just misses getting hit by the truck, not only he should feel lucky but he should realize that his life is much more important than to be wasted in a fraction of a second. It has a higher price tag attached to it. And after that he should work to justify the price tag. If you still do not understand what I am saying just imagine the situation when anyone of Mahatma Gandhi or Nelson Mandela would have died in an accident in their early age. Many would say that someone else would have taken their place. But the fact remains that every such “someone” has the realization of the “price-tag” on them.

I would say that just don’t continue with the course of life after an incident which shook you to the core. Acknowledge the course changing capacity of the incidence in your life. Remember that we are simply lucky to be here and we should always acknowledge it.