Rajvi Bagdai When Rajvi asked me to write for her blog the very first little emotion I felt was that of being flustered. I mean “what do I even write”, I asked to myself and forgot about this whole idea completely. Today as I write I don’t feel that emotion anymore. Suddenly I am not flustered anymore, suddenly that “what” disappeared somewhere along the process of thought leaving me too. All of this may sound extremely confusing or extremely simple but I am still going to put it in terms of someone we all know to be the brainchild of why I am writing this in the first place.
Back in High school, every morning Id drag my self to school super early in the morning. My head wouldn’t be in the right place because part of it would still be in bed and the other part would be thinking of ways to skip the morning assembly. And every morning, I would see Rajvi, also dragging herself to school but, there used to be this really active and energetic smile she had every morning. This excitement towards life, towards every second and minute of the day. Back then I never understood why or how one could have such an attitude towards life 6 am in the morning. On a Monday morning.
Somewhere along the process, I realized that most of us are boggled up in the thought of it being 6 in the morning and it being a Monday and having so many things ahead of us for which we have to prepare and tend to those matters. No wonder we don’t want to get out of our beds in the morning. But Rajvi knew this. She knew that there were a lot of things to be done and yet she smiled and laughed that early in the morning. Because she knew that thinking would get her nowhere. Only if we could sit and think and magically get everything done, all this would not be required in the first place. But that’s not the case and it cant be.
Everything has the right time, the right place, and the right mind. We really do not have to worry about what happened yesterday or what’s gonna happen tomorrow. All we have to do is embrace this very moment we have. This very life. The present is life and when we do realize that and don’t get me wrong all of us at some point sooner or later do realize this because there’s no running away from this. It will come to you when it has to.
We are too worried thinking about this journey everyone keeps talking about. THE JOURNEY IS NOW. This is the journey. Enjoy it. Embrace it. Witness it and smile a little more every day like Rajvi. It can do wonders without you even realizing it.
-S.Bal
