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When you feel like doing something, sit down and relax until that feeling goes away – this was a line once shown to me by a good friend of mine. I was so impressed with it that I gave in to the belief that I was great in handling myself when ever I felt any strong wills to do a task which seemed a bit demanding on my nerves and I had left it unaccomplished. I took it as though these were golden words; just until I realized that they weren’t; they were not true in every aspect of life. They were verbalized by a soul trying to mistake incapability for patience. There were merely the words we all appreciate listening to.

When I got into this to prove it incorrect (in specifically serious walks of life), I was forced ambiguously to encounter stiff opposition of probable errata that might have pushed me into false and unanswered paradigms. I started off with a ridiculous understanding that I am the one on the wrong side trying to gain appreciation for being different and going for ideologies often unaccepted. This provided me with a challenge of fighting self-manipulation just to test my buffer for formidable self-fraud. And I fell into the deep trap of flirting with my conscience; and I came up with the following explanations. Now, I’d like to make it clear that I am in no way trying to preach or wreak any new notions that might get any false objects of misunderstanding into the subtle minds of the readers.  

Every one of us likes to enjoy life irrespective of the fact that we might just not be gaining what can be the single most valuable need of every life – satisfaction. We are misled by our own perception that we are in possession of every happiness required for an anticipation of a fruitful life (note that I am using the word anticipation here). We put ourselves on the track of a virtual train moving in circles and eventually leading us to a pleasant nowhere. The reason – we want to be happy!

The verily accepted logic that its truly human nature, to always ask for more, pulls us deeper into a delusion that successful people have beaten this natural phenomenon. But when we are made to make it clear who these so called successful people (at least for us) are, the answer we might throw evidently shows the personalities who have said ‘yes’ to this human nature. They were ready to dream big; not only dream about something, but also believe in it.

When we are asked about the category we belong to – practical or unpractical; the answer often found is ‘it depends’. To be frank, it depends only on one thing – the fact that we are unpractical. Only unpractical people depend on the outer world; practical people depend on themselves.

Then of course they are a group of very interesting people who keep on saying that they prefer playing it safe no matter how much it take on them. They say they have nothing to lose forsaking the fact that they got nothing to gain form this assumption either. And they take delight and pleasure in proclaiming their belief and to make things worse, they even preach their concept of being safe. The most amazing part is that they think they are safe by doing nothing.

What a pity it is, what a waste of human potential. God help them. They demur to any person who might try to guide them; it makes no difference to them even if that person is correct or wrong. They are simply cynics.

How can I explain them that having money in a safe deposit vault never yields; how do I enlighten them that extinct animals are safe from poachers only in their sanctuaries, their only need is to survive; how do I show them that no life is lived by staying indoors.

These people are the very wise ones who go to any extent to prove their points; only that if they had gone for some good deeds, they could have put their powerful minds to a better use. They don’t even understand that they are simply devising a valid explanation of their helplessness to achieve in life what they desire.

I am sure they want big things; they do have big dreams – dreams that include people. But they are afraid to go ahead with them; the reasons are many – maybe they are weak, probably too shy to express, may be they think they are waiting for the right things to appear (which might never happen), or it might be just that they have some personal problems they dare not to reveal to themselves. But one thing’s for sure – they really, really long for things as big as life and they are too proud to lose. And as I have already stated, they do nothing but proclaim modestly that they prefer being safe. It is just their inability to employ effort that they are validating this point. It’s a shame they don’t realize the hard facts. I pity they deceive themselves.

In the larger run, they never are satisfied. These are the people who are afraid to dream. They nave no idea of what they have been created for and they are afraid of the power their mind manifestation may give out. They are afraid of themselves.

We don’t get satisfaction in life as long as we limit our potential and encapsulate ourselves. We need to go beyond what we have seen, and more beyond what we thought we could do.

It’s like a hammer kept in a box for a long period; it knows not what it has been made for. It stays there for several years and then one cold day it is taken out to get to work. The hammer is hit on the trees to chop them; it is pounded on the ground to level it; it is played on the people to kill them. The hammer feels nice that it is being used, but it has contempt in it. It is not happy and satisfied with what it is being used for. It has work but still wants more. There is something missing in it; it’s getting frustrated.

Then one day it is hit on a nail. And lo! It felt life. It was as if it was made for this act – to hit nails. The hammer knew it. It realized it is this work that gives satisfaction.

Though it’s incorrect to compare the non-living with humans, I do believe that this example can be taken as a compelling one. The case is definitely same with our lives. Making ourselves safe never lets us feel life - it rusts our souls and shrinks our world. A few of these people say that the world is very big; yes, I do agree with them. I’d like to tell them that the world is even much bigger than what they think it is – in every sense they like to take it. But I must take the opportunity to sensitize them with a well known fact that this world is round (in cross section), geo-spherical for that matter.

Being safe is equivalent to forming a shell around us – the one we think that might give us some protection. It hardly and barely does that. Deep down inside our hearts we know this. This kind of safety limits our well being and stops us from moving up from the point of mediocrity.

If one really wants to be safe, it is better he dies and remains safe and sound in his grave. (Ah! What a pity, even that grave won’t be safe for him. Remember God!).