SECOND CHANCES

Life doesn’t really give you a second chance. Or it does?

Its 2 am in the morning, switched off my laptop, set the alarm, kept the ac remote and phones next to my head, yawned a couple of times too. I was all ready to sleep until this thought stuck me. It just made me rewind all the decisions I’ve ever took. From the little-kid-making-new-friends, to shopping, buying things to choosing a career, its patterns and to relationships and love.

Pondering over all the innocent ones, like making friends when you just step into school, should I go and say hi to that kid? Or sharing food, pencils, and pens with him/her? One breath and you’re done with these ones. No hustle, no cry. And somehow these mattered. Okay now its kid-dish, but it did when we were 5, it surely did, to some extent. Changing schools, or changing friends, being with new-kid-in-class and forgetting your day-1-friend, this wasn’t really tough deciding. It just happened and we weren’t supposed to explain out the why’s and how’s associated with it.

As we grow up, we realize that as our bodies grow, get complicated, our mind too does and the decisions we are meant to take, get more complicated, and the dilemmas get more evolved with time.

The same how and when of switching some friend, like being more with somebody and losing out to someone you grew up with, happens. But this time, it ain’t simple. It’s complicated. With reasons, why that-person and not me? The jealousy factor, the importance factor, everything creeps in. It gets sad and murky. But the only thing that remains constant is the reason, which is “NOTHING”. We still have no answer but a silence in which we ourselves think “Is it so?” or “why? I don’t feel that ways.” And in the end we are left with the little scratch in our relationships by none other than TIME. The ever manipulative and playable TIME! Ha!

I started with the second chances and don’t know where this difference crept in from. Anyway, second chances. YES! We don’t really have any second option in life though. It’s just a yes or a no. With choosing a friend, either you be one or you don’t. With selecting a career, either what you want to, what you like or something you don’t. Either you are in love or you aren’t. It’s no other way. A YES or a NO. And once we’re done with deciding what to chose, we have to stick to it, all of its consequences as well. No second chance.

But sometimes we get it. When you act stupid, foolish and immature, life gives you one. Honestly, we are puppets sent by god on this earth to entertain rest of them. And fall in love with one of them tooJ. Similarly everybody has their job predefined by him. The GOD! Pretty tough business he does, you see! And when we don’t do as we are supposed to, or go by our will, against his, we get some intuition of something weird happening and we ignore that sign and still do it; then comes our second chance. To revisit that one thing, one decision which we made, to correct it and make everything fall into place; and build a happy world for ourselves.

We all get one. Once or many a times in life, we all do some reckless thing(s), for which the second chance comes and knocks our door. And as there is a happy ending always, everything settles down quite smoothly! It works out. It has to, else as Sharukh Khan says” picture abhi baaki hai mere dost!” it goes on till it becomes PERFECT!

Probably I got one. I think. Maybe I decided some issues, some matters of my life, very swiftly, for which I had to pay later, a huge amount though. And then came, my second chance. It happened. Abruptly but ending in a happier me now. It made me hard, rigid to life, patient, practical and a little less emotional- sentimental, and a much calmer, accepting person. To say the least, I couldn’t have been in love with GOD more.

Life is too short to be unhappy and since GOD knows what we are worth, there will be no settling for dirt. There WILL be a happy ending. Life teaches us everything. All we have to be is a patient learner and it’s gonna be a world as WE SEE IT.