Life in our hands

If you had the boon to undo one thing that you did, what would you like to cull out from your past and alter? That would be an impeccable power to live life to the full and feel fulfilled. Many a time, we all wish if we had a magic button or life-changing wand in our hands. A swipe over a missed opportunity, lost chance, a wrongly made decision or blunder, a tragedy or misfortune and you have the last laugh. Don’t you think that’s just amazing? Living an error-free, folly-free, disaster-free life would be heaven on earth. Imagine living a life that’s free of all such hazels! The question however is would you be happy with such a life? If you answered in the affirmative, do you think you strive towards living such a life? If your answer is a creepy ‘no’, well, you perhaps have got a few things going right for you.

By our very nature, the impulse to act as we wish propels us to do things that we might regret later. Be it silly, life threatening or life changing – in fact all our big and small ‘mistakes’ are life changing – you and I tend to showcase either our stupidity or self-importance culminating in some grave mistake. However, make it a point to spare a few moments – or even more – to analyze the mistakes you have committed and the knotty situations you have created. How you look at them ten years down the line? Are you happy that you had tears in your eyes and butterflies in your tummy or do you think it all screwed up your life forever?