Little Optimistic Glory

*Note- written for a school mag - it's unlike the others - though that may not be a good thing *

Every time he paused to reflect upon what he had achieved in this life he was disappointed. It is not his achievements that churned his stomach or any lack of them thereof. Truth be told it is infact the bitter thought of how much more he could have done..


Each time he was offered the chance to do something and he stepped back, away from opportunity, is a living memory of fear. That one step back is now a whole flight down on the stairway of life.

How many of us realize how short life really is. Not short in a sense of longevity but in fulfillment of purpose. Why are we on this earth? What is our end goal? Every single philosopher and thinker in the last umpteen centuries has taken that issue to be the one closest to his or her heart and yet it is the most enigmatic.

We cannot resolve all the world’s problems or conflicts. Besides even if this impossibility could be achieved it would be short-lived. What would it be like to live in that utopian world? Everyone would be equal- in ability and wealth; everyone the other’s friend; everyone free from troubles, pain and suffering.

Can we actually achieve such idealism?

Every single inch of my pragmatic being directs me to the negative. Some are just more equal than others; we cannot be everybody’s friend and lastly Pandora did open that box. It is all dissonance.

Yet something was left behind in that box. She was beautiful. Each and every bit of her radiated with a magnificent glow. Her name was Hope and there has never been anything false about hope.

We want change. We want progress. We want harmony. How?

A turtle if it wants to move has to stick its neck out of its shell.

We are all too afraid of what is out there. True, we might fail. Then again we might not.

Yet again who cares?

Show me a person who has never failed and I’ll show you somebody who has never achieved much. Failures are just part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Glory lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.

In our life we will face detractors- people who try to pull you down. Some of these people simply don’t like you; the others just want you to do whatever you are doing better.

In the end of it all it is what you want to do that makes the difference. Try, try, try and then do it all over again. Each time you fail, remember you will not stop until you succeed. Each time you fail, laugh, because by not laughing at yourself, you lose out on a whole lot of laughs. Each time you fail try doing it again but differently. For in the end glory encompasses the path you take to it. And somewhere, somehow you will be happy.

‘Life is not a spectator sport. If watching is all you are going to do then you are going to watch your life go by without you.’