Perfect Life vs. An Imperfect Day!

Human mind is no doubt a wonderland. And we all are some sort of de-fantasized Alices that keep traveling the length and width of this wonderland without getting lucky. We expect our dreams to be perfect too like our desires, strange! Because we have no control over our dreams, its the conscious and unconscious games of the mind that culminates as dreams. Wondering about perfect desires, the list is as human as possible, if we are allowed to wish, we would wish it all. Like we want perfect life, a perfect partner, a perfect house, perfect career, perfect kids, perfect family, perfect friends; even perfect in laws, bosses, neighbors and relatives! Why, because we ourselves are perfect examples of imperfections.

We expect a lot out of others and outwardly things than from ourselves. When we can not control our own personalities, limitations, we still continue to commit the same mistakes and same stupidities day after day. We promise each new day would be different but thanks to our inherent imperfections we remain the same. But we do expect the world to change according to our whims and fancies. We want a perfect morning, a perfect cup of ginger tea, smelling its way from the kitchen to the much loved window seat. But the wish for perfection doesn't end here, rather it starts with this part because this is the easiest part to begin with.

Putting our feet out of the home to the car, our mind sets on a task of making perfect plans for the perfectly starting day, forgetting the mini accidental hitches like opening the cold shower instead of the hot one, finding out that a shirt needs mending, wearing a wrong sock and telling ourselves who is going to see. As we sit behind the wheel, the plans start hatching in our brain, just like a brick wall, and we keep placing one after the other with perfect craftsmanship.

The first mishaps happen when we come to the senses hearing someone honk like crazy from behind. That is the first and immensely irritating face to face with reality. Then the traffic, more honking, biker trying to take a wrong turn, so on and so forth. We deal with everything, not quietly hitting the steering as that's the best thing we can do at that particular time, sometimes mouthing quite a few swears. If anyone calls us during that fateful journey to work, along with other things, he or she would have to share your traffic misery.

The anger of not getting the desired parking space and then hitting another car while opening the door to come out, the fake smile to the colleague getting out of his car, while he is happily chatting with someone on his Bluetooth headset on and flashing, we take the first step towards work. After a bit of Gmail, Yahoo, Facebook and 15 minutes of checking out photos of our deadliest enemies, we digest the happy smiling faces of the enemies with a heavy heart, we settle down to open the outlook for official mails, without any idea of how many important mails are laying there waiting to add to our sorrows.

So begins the normal day and our perfect desires take a back seat while we deal with what appears to be more important at that point of time. While we go on with our day's various activities, we mutter a few words to ourselves promising a long vacation at Bahamas or Miami, a few nights at Las Vegas and something equally pleasing to balance the bouncing nerves in our brain. These are the perfect desires that remain perfect through out the day, because we know they are just day dreams, and in our dreams we can achieve anything...:)

As we lay in bed that night regretting about a bad day and thinking about what pleasant surprises life would bring tomorrow we forget that today was a tomorrow too, and we lived through it without doing anything significant. Yet, when we want a life, we want it perfect, which is untouched by reality and comes with 70mm cine-scope that pleases every part of our being. If we do not have these desires we can not survive but we forget that we need to enjoy the reality to not pass a day without living it. Life cannot be perfect but why waste it waiting for a perfect time. Make it worthwhile as it lasts.

Let each day embrace you with its simple events and let each person in your life feel special about themselves so that life does seem perfect at the end of the day. Do not wait too long to achieve perfection in your life, live each moment as it is, you may see how many colors the day brings you as you smile on. Make the most of it and there would be no regret.

Live my friend live before life slips out of your hands just like sand!