The Flightless Urge…!! No doubt, everything that we witness on this planet is gifted to us by some unknown, unfigured power – generally renowned by the name “GOD”. Every single being whether unicellular, bi-cellular or multi-cellular is a living piece or a living example of peerless art. But, what is that one thing that distinguishes the human race from the rest of the animal and botanical kingdom apart from the fact that we being more intelligent have learnt to live in a society, a kind of a human network over the past several years. That one thing my dear is the power of choice, is the sense of attraction, is the presence of passion, is the feeling of urge. But, on that occasion I would like to throw a very simple but deep question to all the readers – “how many of us really cultivate our dreams with the fertility we are born with?” I understand that the world is moving very fast and we have come a long way in our journey and everybody has realized that things which used to be a cakewalk in some days appear practically impossible in the modern picture. The amount of pressure is rising even above the rate of global temperature which in turn is increasing various ailments and suicidals and decreasing people’s health and expected life span and the man who used to be independent of the cumbersome system of education is now expected to learn, score, achieve and earn all quickly so that he could chain himself to the illusionary purest relationship way ahead of being too old to deliver and hit the right spot. Trust me, I understand it all. You know, we are all the same, we are all birds created with different forms of dust, we all have wings which are not perceivable to our naked eye but which really takes us to matchless heights provided we know when to adjust our sails to fly with the soothing breeze in the direction we want ourselves to grow. There is a very beautiful phrase which runs this way – “The best way to avoid being drenched is to soar above the clouds” and I truly believe that if we succeed in identifying our impulse we surely would be able to make the whole world recognize our worth. Having provided a much detailed background, I would now choose to throw some light on the darkest topics ever – “THE FLIGHTLESS URGE”. This subject matter speaks about the will, speaks about the passion and speaks about the urge we are all born with. The whole process is divided into four stages:- • The stage when we are too young to realize our urge. • The stage when we begin to realize our urge. • The stage when we try to avoid our urge. • The stage when we regret to let go our urge. The first stage is the most beautiful stage of a man’s life where he is too young and too innocent to identify the purpose with which he is sent to this selfish world and enjoys following the commands of the people who leave no stone unturned to assure that the boy is shaped with the help of the dice of their choice, that the boy is brought up exactly in the fashion which suites their society and that the boy exactly holds the opinion as held by his up bringers. In this stage the child is just like a fresh bud who fails to understand that he is just being pollinated by the insects surrounding him which sucks out the bud’s sweetness ultimately leaving it to be blown away by the strong winds of life only to be piled up with the other plucked out wastes belonging to the same specie. The second stage speaks about the stage which gifts us with the opportunity to spread our wings and to feel the fresh winds going heavy with the moisture of the morning dew. This is the span where our conscience speaks to us and enlightens the path which should be walked upon. This is the stage which gives us the opportunity to realize our will, to realize our potential, to realize our urge and therefore this is the stage which attempts to serve us with the knowledge of our purpose and gifts us with realizable and achievable dreams and again in this context it has been very rightly put – “dreams are not what you see in sleep, but dreams are something that don’t let you sleep”. This is the stage which if capitalized properly can make a difference to what we are and to what we could be. Today we are fond of various household names whether it be the perfectionist Aamir or the romantic Shahrukh, whether it be the ever young Amitabh or the Greek God Hrithik, whether it be the writer Chetan or the comedian Kapil, whether it be the legendary Sachin or our very own Modi Ji. But, why while praising these sensations we only look at the shining part of the mirror but never try to find out as to why they are different, as to what they possess but we don’t and as to why they are always the point of discussion and we the lame discussers. And, I bet that if surveyed properly we would find out that the thing they possess is the courage of initiation, the courage of believing in oneself, the courage of voicing their views and this is what makes them they and makes us we. The third stage is the stage which eventually brings out the underlying meaning, the underlying idea or the underlying reason for conjuncting the word “FLIGHTLESS” with the word “URGE”. This period actually speaks about the cave we youngsters are presently in. And therefore, through this free writing I am making an attempt to save some of the gems of our kind and to encourage some of the young bloods of our time to refrain from draining out their wishes for the wish of others, their thought process for the mentality of others and their dreams for the dream of others. I know “it’s easier said than done” and I know too that we are always surrounded by some invisible forces of pressure and responsibilities from the end of our family and society which drives us to the zone which were never comforting to us but just like a herd of cattle we sacrifice our intuition for the fear of failure and choose to dance to the tune of other’s broomstick only ending up with marks and bruises never to be healed even by the healing time. Why the hell do we even find it reasonable enough to waste our time thinking about what the society which has got nothing to do with us and our lives would think about our character? And why the hell do we even bother to picturize what comments on our decisions and approach would flow from the end of sick people who in reality are filled with such brutal poison as to they are least affected by the fact whether they climb the stairs of prosperity or not but would certainly try not to escape death without being the root cause for someone’s downfall? But why even after knowing that we carry with us the required fuel to fly high we always find it practical to nail our feet down to the ground respecting Sir Newton’s “Gravitational Law”? and develop ourselves as penguins i.e. a bird with wings but still “FLIGHTLESS”. Trust me, we are not born to train ourselves rather we are born to explore ourselves. Even a caterpillar has to breakdown its shell so as to transform itself into a butterfly then what is the high note of being so social and so intelligent if we even lag behind such a petty insect when it comes to the point of showing courage of coming out of the web casted around us so that we see a world of our own, with our own perspective, with our own vision. As has been very beautifully murmured by the Father of our Nation – “you must be the change; you wish to see in the world”. Always remember that it’s just the first sip of a coffee that haunts us of a burnt tongue, the rest of it is divine. Similarly, it’s only the initiation that you need to pull out with all your strength, the rest would automatically fall in the ideal pockets. So, never try to avoid the call which is conveyed to you by your spirit because it’s only you who would be left to answer when being questioned in the court of Lord. The fourth and the final stage is the stage wherein on one hand we find ourselves comfortably settled with our lives, continuously oscillating, imitating the pendulum’s to and fro motion and find ourselves over occupied with our mundane daily routine but, on the other hand we are always of the feeling as if something material is missing, as if the flower is there but the fragrance is missing, as if the flavor is there but the essence is missing, as if the angel is there but the grace is missing and as if we are there but our soul is missing. This is the actual span where we truly realize the depth of the saying – “time and tide waits for none”. And since over our journey we have learnt to value time therefore, such school of thought renders such realizations valueless. This frame of time makes us so helpless that though knowing that the pot possesses a leakage we are left with no liquid to identify its co-ordinates and simply no clay to fill up the vacancy but the only thing we are left up with is the burning impulses of regret which illuminates the path of adjustment if we are to survive the latter half of our designated script. According to me the realizations that eventually crops up in this horizon though unarmed to make any difference to the life of the soul body concerned can certainly add value to the society by imparting true message of life to the young breeds of our generation so that instead of evolving as a murmuring parrot these horses backed by their lofty dreams are able to challenge the winds only to halt and lay when mother nature bids them to do so. I don’t feel any necessity of summarizing up the ideas presented above because for me the above crafted phrases are not only ideas and concepts but they are a jar of my feelings which has been poured out in front of you with a hope that you, instead of wiping it off allow it to spread as far as possible so that even the unfortunates who find themselves surrounded by the mist can at least feel the warmth of the rays if not the sun itself. With this the only message that I wish to convey to the entire world is that never back out of your dreams for the fear of failure because ups and downs are a part and parcel of life and is necessarily desirable, as we can see that a patient lying on a stretcher is relieved only until the graph portraying his heartbeat is fluctuating but the very same is sucked out of his strength with a graph picturising “PERFECT ELASTICITY”. -KARAN KULTHIA
Posted on: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 18:13:27 +0000
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