When everything seems to take a different route; when nothing seems to be in your favour; when responsibilities becomes more important in deciding whether you are happy or not; then, there exists a point which causes (dis)equilibrium between your emotions and responsibilities. Responsibilities and emotions are two diverging paths, you cannot walk on both. Everyone likes to be independent and be swift in his/her decisions, taking care of the expectations and glorifications, which others might be having from them. Often, parents have high-headed expectations from their children. This often (de)motivates the children when they compare the expectations of their parents over their capabilities. Sometimes, you might feel curbed, cramped because responsibilities overpower emotions. In the run of life, you’ll encounter many situations where it’d be nearly impossible for you to accomplish the expectations that others might be having from you or you might not be able to just express yourself due to some binding constraints that define responsibilities. But, the difference lies when you decide not to run and put a full-stop to your struggle. Struggling is what defines you and your personality. Keep struggling and that will keep you too young to counteract against your counterparts. Often I talk to people about what they want to achieve in life. In maximum number of cases, I observed that what people want is money and that too without struggling. If you say that money is the primary need of humankind, I whole-heartedly disagree with your viewpoint. In my opinion a person who is not having the urge for money making, who is not motivated to survive in the competitive monetary world then, how could he be successful in the same? You need to struggle to achieve what other reputed souls have achieved till now. The achievements by the Tatas and the Ambanies is a result of years of struggle and hard work. We just can’t dare to ignore the struggle they have faced and imagine a million fold in our arms every time we step out of the creaky door of our house. Till the time a small child is not made aware of actual worth of a chocolate, it would be busy enjoying the pleasure of it by eating dozens of them. Similarly, a person needs to be made aware about his goal. The goals should be clearly defined and every possible effort should be made to put the ball into the goal. In life, only you are the one who has to make efforts to reach your goal. There is no one who can act on your behalf to achieve your goals. You, yourself are committed for each folly.

The gratification of being in an illusion is infinitely more than the discontentment received after a failure.

I may seem like copying the story of Taare Zameen Par by producing a different perspective but when a thought is to be conveyed, it’s the thought that matters and not its origin.

(from a book titled INFINITY- A SENSUAL BEGINNING by Sanjay Kataria)