What do you do when one day you advice someone to have only those people in his or her life who add value, who somehow contribute and the very next day someone you hold incredibly close to your heart suddenly stops talking to you because they felt you 'advise them wrong'? Is the other person not doing exactly what you said someone should do? Do you blame the other person for not being insightful enough? Or respect their decision and maintain the distance? Because ultimately what you mean for someone is for them to decide, not yours. And how do you accept the other person's decision?
The other day my roommate and I were cooking together. Somehow the talk drifted towards life and its ups and downs. I, as usual, started cribbing about how it had been for the past couple of years - uncertainties, broken promises, shaken foundations, blah, blah blah. It was at this junction that she shared a pearl of wisdom that I will take to my deathbed. Following is what she spoke: Have you ever seen a river? Let us take a small part of it. It starts as a small sliver of water somewhere up in the mountains. From the beginning it has to fight for its existence every single instant. Slowly, yet steadily, it moves ahead. In the beginning, even the smallest of pebbles pose a threat to it. It defeats them and moves ahead. Next it has to stave off the challenge of the big rocks that come in the way. It overcomes that too, little knowing that soon it is going to fall and fall heavily. Lesser is its knowledge that the higher it has started, the mightier its fall is going to be. Blissf...
I somehow feel that this advise " advice someone to have only those people in his or her life who add value, who somehow contribute" is not proper. It is not necessary to have people in your life only if they add some value to you and benefit you in some way.
ReplyDeleteLife is not a business... Sometimes - even when you know that a particular person in your life is of no use to you and having them around you only pulls you down, you still cannot let them go... Sometimes letting them go is JUST not the right thing to do...
I do not know the context in which this was posted. But this is what I felt!!! :)
-- Chethan Manja