Monday, 23 June 2014

A journey from D 2 A



A Journey from D 2 A

          It had been a long journey; yes a long journey, indeed a very long one. It was tiresome, tedious, boring, monotonous, uninteresting and dry. I remember every detail of the journey crystal clear. The entire gamut of the journey was filled with steep ascending and sharp tumbling. I traveled through the curves of every possible degree. I heard someone naming it sweetly as ‘Hair Pins.’ The end was the worst. I returned to the same place where I began. Every journey has a destination. I too had one. But somewhere I took a wrong turn. I fell slowly, very slowly and steadily. I looked at my G.P.S to check my route. It had an interesting shape as that of a ‘D’. I realized with an alarm in my mind that this ‘D’ stands for all my difficulties.


          I had a difficult moment to think about it all once again. I was down, sad, moody, and anxious about the past failures. I was afraid to make another mistake. I did not have the courage to face it all once again: if I fail. What will I do if I face another failure? I had to find an answer to that question. In fact I had none. Yet, it was not easy for me to give it up all once again. My destination called me with its fairy tales, mythologies, legendaries, epics, fancy dresses and much more. I could control myself no more with fear of failing once again. I suppose a very deep and an interior call too worked well for me. I felt someone is calling me to try once again, yet I lacked the courage to begin anew.


          I started packing up things for another journey. The reason was simple. I could not refuse to the deep call within me anymore. I began the journey. The same old paths, I made sure that I make no mistakes this time. I took the right turn in the place where I made mistake last time. At that moment I felt that I am on top of the world. I succeeded. I realized that my anxieties and worries were going away. It evoked a thought of joy, happiness and a secret pride. I realized nothing more is on my way to stumble, topple and tumble.  But I realized that I fell again.


           For a moment I thought that all hilarity came to an end. It’s exuberance no more. Tears rolled down from my cheeks. The endless head of a river dried up. I had no courage to open my eyes. I saw it but I do not want  to face the reality. I opened my eyes slowly. The bright light strained my eyes. I saw it. It contradicted my expectations. I was far from where I began the journey. I wondered for a moment. I checked my route map in my G.P.S.


           The route was in the shape of ‘A.’ I had a fall but an invincible rugged pieces of wood came on my path. It backed me up that I was pushed ahead. My success was the gift of that two invincible rugged pieces of wood that made me invincible. At last I knew ‘A’ stands for an ‘Answer.’ My difficulties are answered. Every difficulty is changed into an answer when a cross separates both beginning point and the end of a  difficulty.


 

P.S. I am a cricket ball.



Bro. Thykkattu Christy S. D. B.


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