There was a girl with an umbrella who walked and walked endlessly.. all she could see was patches of green far away.. with nothing effective to do she decided to at least walk till that patch.. she walked towards it.. it took like ages to reach her destination n when she looked around she was disappointed.. it wasn’t what it looked from that far.. she thought “ah so it’s the truth they say the grass always looks greener on the other side..” pondering over it she thought funny that is how life is..thats the way of life.. we always look at someone n say I wish I had an easy life like hers.. may be the person has other problems that don’t really show when you look at them…
Once a friend of hers told her.. ”what for you? You have everything I ever wanted..you don hv anything to worry about” she asked her what problems does she have.. she pointed out a few issues of hers which our girl with the umbrella found very easy to deal with or which she found she would never worry about .. those things that were important to her were unimportant to our girl… and she probably din’t know the other things our girl has to face …
Our girl realized today what she could see was in comparison only to her problems..she thought “ being in my shoes.. she ll no longer have those issues but she ll have those which she would ve never thought of before.. “ it always sounds so nice to say “ I wish I was in your shoes…” cause we just look at the good things the advantages n we somehow manage to overlook the problems that accompany..
Every person has strengths and weakness… a person might find it easier to deal with emotional issues while to the other that might be the biggest issue. So next time you see somebody and think hope life was to me as it is to him.. think twice.. there s a * which says there are hidden traits.. that * is so easy to overlook but that is what ll change your entire life… and so that you know.. there s at least one person who looks at you and thinks “ I wish I was him/her..:)”
There are a series of things that comes up in our girl’s mind when she thinks about illusions and perception… our girl and loads of others like her go through this.
She looks at the night sky with loads of stars.. somewhere deep down she knows the stars are nt there .. they either would hv died by now or would be somewhere else(stars are light years away).. they are not the way she sees it.. yet when she looks at them she thinks they are there..
The mirage.. Driving down a lane in the hot sun.. she sometimes sees there is a pool of water at a distance.. she knows it’s not there.. Its jus a trick of the eye yet for an instant she believes it’s there…
she goes to the beach in the morning, looks at blue water .. at sunset orange colored water.. its reflection of the sky.. so she has been taught.. she has also been taught water is colorless.. but she still sees orange colored water..
So what is it?? Should she not believe everything she sees?? Can eyes play tricks on us?? Or is it that we should give room to our mind to work on things before jus blindly believing what we see…!!??
I ll tell you a story of our very own girl with the umbrella.. once she decided to touch the skies.. !!
Our little girl with the umbrella..looked at the horizon and thought “that is where the sky meets the sea.. if I go there I will be able to touch the skies..” Now you tell me is it possible.. but our lil girl so badly wanted to touch the skies that she thought it could happen…
So our little girl prepared for the journey.. she took all that was necessary and started on her journey to reach the point where her dreams ll come true…
Days passed by.. she sailed and sailed.. it looked as if she had made no improvement.. the point still looked so far away.. she thought just a little while more.. I ll reach the point.. I ll get closer..
Weeks and months passed by.. she went deeper and deeper into the waters.. she din know where she was.. all that she knew was she has to reach her goal.. its nice to be focused but our lil girl took the wrong path.. she trusted something she saw which dint happen in reality and which would never happen and she blindly followed path..
There was still time.. if only she had accepted that the horizon was jus an illusion.. if only she had turned back and sailed towards land again.. if only she had had the courage to accept the truth and turn back while there was still time..
But are little girl dint wanna accept the truth.. she sailed and sailed and one day she realized she was lost.. she realized the point she was working towards was never there..there was no way she could make it back to the shore.. It was too late..
If only she had accepted it earlier.. if only she had come back.. she could ve dreamt of something else or achieved the same dream differently.. if only she had accepted things earlier..
Now the little girl is lost.. our girl with the umbrella is lost forever.. but let’s learn from her life.. it s not wrong to work towards your goal.. its not wrong to take steps to achieve it.. but when you realize you are taking a wrong path.. never postpone the decision for tomorrow.. turn and come back.. and take another road to your destination...or you might never know you could be lost to the world jus like our little girl with the umbrella in the middle of nowhere!!!!
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