Stories are so insightful, yaar!
Last week we were talking about Bheem and his sarcastic take on Yudhishthir’s victory over death.
Today, I want to come back home. Marine Drive.
Tell you something Prof. Vishal Shah told us in college in 2014.
He comes to class at 8am, and shares something he saw at Marine Drive earlier that morning.
Two kids were fighting over a ball.
The older guy overpowered the younger one and snatched the ball.
As expected, the younger chap didn’t like it.
He started crying. Quite loudly.
At this point, Vishal Sir asked us a question.
“How do you think we can make the child stop crying?”
The general consensus was “Give him the ball.”
“But is the ball worth crying over? I mean, it’s just a ball.”
He continued speaking, and gave us a life lesson.
“It may just be a ball. But at that moment, it meant everything to the kid.
I could give him something else. Something more valuable. A chocolate, a bigger ball, a 1000-rupee note, a diamond.
But he’ll still keep crying. Because all he wants is the ball.”
We do this very often, too.
Becoming so fixated on getting something and crying about not having it.
Something so small, petty, invaluable. Not worth our sadness.
Things, people, events, feelings.
Even if the universe gives us something better, we ignore it.
Wherever we stand in life, we have our own balls that we keep crying about.
They’re never all going to go away.
But wishing you the best in 2022 to reduce their number and intensity.
