Making Decisions (Take 2)
OK, let’s try this again. I had completed writing out the rest of the story I shared in my previous post, but then the page crashed at the right time. :\ Sorry it ultimately took even longer to get this posted! But life happens. This is a play, right? We can either cry over the unexpected stuff or we can learn from the experience and move on. In the case of the page crashing on me, it was as simple as me learning to save my work lol and to get the Tumblr app instead of using a tablet to write out a blog post. And it tested how much I can follow what I’m preaching, so to speak. *proceeds to hit save*
OK, so recall that in the quest to find their way out of a forest, each person in a group of 5 took different paths. The 5th person found the shortest/fastest route back home by climbing up the tallest tree in the forest and viewing all the possible paths. So what does this story teach us? That you need to take a step back when you’re in a situation and think over all your options before deciding upon a solution. You need to rise above (literally in this case) the situation to take stock of all your options. You need to be patient and detached from the circumstances, rather than getting too caught up in them. Remember, this is just a play called life. So a problem like this can be seen simply as a scene, which too will pass.
That 5th person was pretty smart wasn’t he? Were the other 4 friends wrong then? Well, let’s see what happened with them:
1. The person who took the path to the left ended up reaching a new city. He got to know a new city, finding new opportunities and creating a new life for himself.
2. The person who took the path to the right reached a denser area of the forest. He had to spend the night alone there, but he ended up learning how to stay bravely in the forest at night alone and how to fend for himself.
3. The third friend who continued straight on the path the group was already on met other people who had also lost their way in the forest. He came to understand how to get along with strangers and live and work with them in harmony.
4. The fourth friend who had gone back on the path he felt they had traveled on up until that point found a house while walking. The people staying in that house had him stay with them. From them, therefore, he learned how to have mercy, compassion, love, and trust for a guest. In a sense, he gained a new family.
Thus, what this story really emphasizes is that everything in life happens for a reason. It does not matter whether something that happens to us feels right or wrong, if we think it’s fair or unfair. What matters is how we deal with the results. We can choose to have regrets, but again the past is the past and is done with. We can decide what we want to take out of any experience, and we can choose to learn from each and every experience. If we don’t move forward in this way, how are we going to find out what happens next in our life plays? Keep that faith strong, remembering that whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger (I had to add that in there lol). We can make use of each experience to grow and, in turn, create a beautiful story.
I am not saying that do not think over your decisions, figuring that anyhow everything will work out for the best. We have the power to make choices, and therefore we should make them wisely. However, once you’ve taken the best decision you feel you could have taken with whatever information you had at a given time, don’t beat yourself up if it doesn’t work out quite as you expected. Don’t be hard on yourself and don’t dwell in that pool of regrets. By doing so, is your path really turning out to be any smoother?
I totally wrote this in a different way than I did on Sunday haha. But maybe there was a reason that you were all meant to see this version instead of that earlier version/take 1. :)
Again, I heard and learned of this story from the show Meri Sai - Shraddha Aur Saburi.
