Life’s conundrums and its underlying beauty

Well, perhaps everyone would agree that life is a puzzle. It’s a puzzle where the level of difficulty is knowingly or unknowingly set by we humans ourselves. In a way, this could be the summary of life: you create your own puzzle when you’re born and spend rest of your life solving it depending upon the level of difficulty set by you. How Simple! 🙂

So why am I talking about puzzels today? Well an interesting question. I’ve always been intrigued by life’s paradoxes, its dilemmas, those undefiend moments of life and those times where nothing is either good or bad or correct or incorrect. I believe, it is in these situations where the choices you make define your story of life, giving credence to a long know quote on life:

‘life is what you make of it’

I agree that not all in life is undefined or unclear. Most of the things in life are pretty standard as such or rather the modern society has brought us to do certain things in a standard/defined way. For eg. brushing your teeth, taking bath, wearing clothes, having food etc. Agree that each of these standard or mundane aspects of life have their own complexities, their own variables and their own permutations and combinations but as such they remain standard. Whether you wear a Levi’s or Prada, you’re weaing a piece of cloth covering your body because it’s become a norm to wear clothes.

Well, what about times where things are not so well defined or clear? Times when you can either go anyway or you have no where to go, where you perhaps you have everything and yet you have nothing, where you may want an mango but life is offereing you apples instead 🙂 What people do in these times and sitatuations intrigues me the most because these are the life’s turning points. Eventually they define your life and carve a story for you.

What fascinates me is that no one can teach you how to handle these situations. How does one decide what to study in graduation or what career to pursue? Doing a pattern analysis might reveal that most of us decide what to study or what career to pursue based on what has influenced us the most so far or what we think our passions are what is a good career to pursue at that point of time. But is there a hard and fast anwer to this which can be either particularly correct or incorrect? Certainly not! Most of us end up doing something that we haven’t studied. Every career path offers bright prospect if you are really good at it. You could be a Michelin 3 star chef or a Nobel prize winning scientist or you could be world’s best teacher.

No MBA or a life coach can perhaps teach you what to do when lets say you’re in a situation where you’re into someone but that person isn’t into you and rather someone else is into you but you aren’t into them or something similar to this. The El Classsico conundrum of life 😉

It is in these times when sheer rawness of an individual comes out where what actions they take is based on who they are, what have they experienced in life so far, what have they seen, what do they want from life and so on and so forth.

Somehow I’m drawn to these gaps of life where things are undefined and there could be ‘n’ number of actions that can be taken in ‘n’ number of situations that can be taken by ‘n’ number of people leading to nⁿ or infinite number of life stories. I mean wow! This brings me to what I feel is the intangible beauty of life: Beauty lies in moments which bring out sheer rawness of an individual in those undefined moments of life where possibilites are endless and end results are always unique. Actions that we take or do not take in these moments stick with us leading to characterization of who we are as a person.

Well that’s a start for me in putting my two bits out on life’s undefined moments. I hope to write more on it. Perhpas write a book on it someday, who knows? But that’s it for today, untill next time.

Adeus!

Gyan