The rocket called the Brain
The music peppered through the hall and his legs moved right in sync. The audience cheered with every pirouette, and with every pose he struck, they clapped.
He sighed. Life was so beautiful.
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There he was. In the middle of an office, smiling to himself on a Monday morning.
“What’s wrong?” his neighboring cubicle asks.
“Nothing,” he replies, “Just dreaming,” he mutters under his breath.
Do you have dreams that hide under your actual life too?
Yes?
Then join the club.
We all want to be batman. CEO of Wayne Enterprises by day. A vigilante in a black suit by night. Two parallel lives, handled as efficiently as a juggler juggles knives.
But is it as easy as it seems?
There are very few who do not need to struggle to find what they enjoy to do. Most of us want to juggle between our various ambitions. We want to write a novel today, tomorrow, we want to work in an NGO against poverty.
What if our brain becomes a shuttle cock, shuttling between all these lives we have? It will just be flying about in the same place all the time.
Our brain should be allowed to be what it is. A rocket, propelling forward with full force, all its components pointing towards the destination.
Usually we all are riddled with the same question — a comfy job or a run for passion. So if you have reached the crossroad of life, when you have to select one road to move forward, then do not wait, just choose.
There is no point standing at the edge of the fork. You won’t be going anywhere. Instead put all your energies into following that one path you choose, and feel happiness seep in.
Make the choice. Take a step forward. Decide what you should do with this one life you get.
Not all of us can walk on two paths at once.
Posted by Maithri Warrier
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