Wednesday, August 01, 2007

And the winner is.... Choice!!

Just before I started penning these words, I stared at the white blank space in front of me. The possibilities are staggering. With my thoughts, my mind and fingers, I have the choice to make any use of it that I like. I can write a poem about the beauty of rains, a story about a little girl and her dog, a hate letter against a country or community, a new manifesto for a better world, conversations with myself, haikus, an article about how to use nail-clippers better, a list of my deepest held goals and desires, a list of things i need to buy in the next one week, names of people who have hurt me, a love letter, a gratitude note to those who have touched me, a work mail, a love song, a swot for my company, a recipe for making littis, a manual on how to get an autorickshaw in bangalore, a litany of accusations against someone I despise, a list of reasons I shouldn't write anything or nothing at all.

Anything.

The white space invites me to express any part of myself that I choose to bring forth today... right now. The possibilities, the potential, the freedom, the limitlessness, the infiniteness of it is very difficult to miss.

Life is a lot like this, isn't it?

At any given moment, the next moment and the moment after that stretch before us like a blank sheet of paper. We have absolute freedom, total control, complete power over what we choose to bring forth in those moments. We can choose to write a beautiful story of our life, our destiny. We can choose to write lovingly or write with angst, we can choose to write with our soul or write with our mind. We can choose to admire or envy, we can choose to learn or weep, we can choose to grow or shrink, we can choose to bring forth that which is the best in us – our best version of ourselves or we can carry on – a humdrum existence or even a part of ourselves that is angry – full of hate and venom. We can also tear up the blank sheet of paper. But, we are free. We can be, do, think – anything we want. The only limitations we might apply are those that we have created ourselves.

2 comments:

Sujith Philipose said...

I guess you have the enlightenment now to write more about it ;-)

Anonymous said...

Nice blog Abhishek. We had met a long time back through Ryze.

Well, I think Choice is only when one discovers that he is free to choice. Until then each of us is tied to the mill and we just keep reliving through a pattern. Like machines and Robots. Completely programmed.

So the point is...not everybody staring at "white space" in front of him or her is FREE to choose. Most people don`t even know!

Santosh Vallury
www.acharyasantosh.org