Not long ago, I was listening to the song ‘Shadow of the day’ by Linkin Park squeezing my study time. I was studying less and taking long energetic breaks when the following thought cropped into my mind. Since I was listening to the song ‘Shadow of the day’, I tried to relate the shadow with our daily lives and gave the title

'Shadow of the life'

Whenever you feel the sun heating your back, it produces a mystifying long shadow of your body. Walking under the sun, neither you can avoid the shadow nor you can stay on at the same place for long. Similarly, whenever anyone does back bitching or tries to hurt you in your absence, it puts your surroundings into deep darkness and you may feel choked within your own world. The pangs of helplessness may surround you. You may find yourself suffocated in the darkness around. The shadow is such that if you try moving on, the darkness is always ahead of you. It acts as a binding constraint to your move and limits your boundaries towards light.

The only way to antagonise is to turn back and face the sun and let all the darkness (shadow) follow you. Face the sun and walk. Face the light- the light for your success.

Slowly and slowly, the sun will be at the overhead and the shadow will disappear, the darkness will disappear and you will be the gainer of the odds. Standing on the same position can also lead to the disappearance of the darkness, but it weakens your body, makes you debile and lacks the incentive to move on in life to attain heights. This means that whenever you do nothing against the state of affairs, it might solve your purpose in the short run but it will make you paralysed in the long run. You will lack the incentives to do anything in your future. It will also make you contemptuous, for you missed the opportunity in your past.

The overhead sun forces you to find a shelter in some quite, soothing, comforting place. That heating force makes you run to cover distances between the sun and the sand. You will surely feel lethargic and you might need water to stabilize but that would not deny you of your success. You’ll surely manage to find a luxurious shelter.

The moral is, don’t be disheartened at the complains that others have from you; just move on in life facing the difficulties and you’ll surely one day be the silent gainer of life.

(To be added in the pro edition of the book; do flow in the comments)