Tuesday, April 17, 2007

A Life Less Ordinary

They say “good is the enemy of the great”, when u have quotes like that, ordinary seems outright unacceptable. Then what is it that you do, if after a point in time, everything seems ordinary. Any job loses its challenge and sheen, once the learning curve starts to taper down.

But then that is ordinary, and how does one get away from ordinariness of life, and even worse the ordeal of ordinariness, day after day, weeks together, months together, and with the threat of becoming years together.

In spite of the discontent there is some security in inertia. Some security of it shall not get worse. But the truth is it often gets worse, but the pace of worsening is slow that we often don’t realize. Scientists say that if you put a frog in hot water, is jumps out of it, but if u put a frog in water at room temperature, and start heating the water to boiling point, the frog does not jump out but dies in the water. This happens, because the slow pace of adverse change (though life threatening) is more acceptable, than a sudden change. The frog might have still survived in the hot water, but the change was sudden, so it leapt out of it.

I guess this is what the slow monotone of life does to us. A slow death of the spirit. I refuse to be a frog, I refuse to die a slow death of inaction, a death of inertia. I refuse, I refuse. I know, I shall leap out, before it gets too hot.

I can survive anything, but for successive ordinary days

2 comments:

Neeraj Gutgutia said...

I really like the last line "I can survive anything, but for successive ordinary days" Is these lines yours or you are quoting it from somewhere. And if its yours will like your permission to use it (will give you credit for it).

Its time you start working for your own venture and put a deadline for yourself when you will jump out of the water. And mind you dont put deadline in terms of temprature of water but in terms of date on calender. Bcoz you might not feel the temprature rising till the time it becomes too late.

Double A said...

Sir the line is mine and now yours, no credit required either