Respecting one's own haves...

There is an old saying in our part of the world (my native is one of the smallest states of India called Kerala, a very beautiful place with pristine atmosphere; I will write about kerala in some post in the future) that if you want to know the true value of something, ask somebody who doesn’t have it. The other day, while I was watching a Malayalam (language the Keralites speak) movie, I felt the true power of this saying. The movie talks about the all that can wrong in one's life, most of which I could relate with. Not only that, but it also beautifully picturizes how the character in the movie gets over all these seemingly unsurpassable hurdles and sorrows of his life. Actually, the movie itself didn’t awe me, but it brought back reminiscences of my own past.

Let us take a specific example. What does a job mean to you? Bread-earner? or just a pastime? Whatever it maybe, I know how it feels like without it...I believe, most of you will agree with what I am saying here or even 'experienced' it sometime in their lives. There was a time in my life, when I felt so devastated without a job of my own. I had passed my engineering course in electronics from one of the prestigious institutes of India, but largely because of my own fault, I didn’t land up in a job for several months since I passed out of the college. Many of friends had already been into their jobs several months now, while I was still attending interviews and hoping to get a call from prospective employers. The feeling of being without a job, can’t be expressed in words; it is dreadful, depressing, a very kind of sunk feeling. I felt it for a moment when I saw this movie, a feeling of utter desperation. But, soon I came back to reality. Now such a situation can no more make me despair, or rather won’t happen with me at all, because I am backed by all experience of mine (but, that is a different story)

But, let’s just imagine, if it happens again, how would somebody face it? Are you bold enough for facing this in your life? Are you preparing yourself enough now, to face those imaginary bad times that may happen sometime in future? Many don’t, some don’t care and some don’t even know about such a possibility. I would urge all such to be much more serious about life - for all that you know, you are wrong, terribly wrong. I am not advising anybody here to work with the fear that something bad may happen in their lives, but learn to respect what you have at present, learn to utilize all that you have to the maximum extent possible, share all that you have at present with others, who don’t have. This may include individuals and society alike. All this will improve your own chances to survival when bad times strike you…