My Experiment with Truth

It’s time to wake up now...

In my earlier posts, I had told you all about the series of unfavorable events going on with me, which keeps me sulking each moment. As now I had lost the golden chance to join the top brass Infosys, and my degree postponed for another year, there is only one thought that comes to my mind; why me? Despite all the working knowledge I possess, why does a failure comes in my path? For how long will this go on? When my day will come? I tried to find its answer and I got my answer today.

Morning time. I got up at my usual time today too, took bath and all other morning rituals. I came to my room and switched off the fan. When I sat on the floor for prayers, all those questions were going through my mind every now and then. I took the match box and started igniting the Agarbatti. While doing so, I asked all those questions to the God. I knew I’m doing so just to convince my mind. But God is great. Something clicked my mind the same time.

I started to think that it was so easy to ignite the Agarbatti when the fan was switched off. Everyone does the same so did I. what difference it made between me and the others then? I got up and switched the fan on and set it to full throttle. I came back to my place and made a decision, a decision to ignite the Agarbatti in the same condition, with the fan on. I was not sure whether I’ll be able to do it or not, but I pledged that I will try it till the matchbox gets empty. So I took the Agarbatti and the matchbox in the same hand and matchstick in the other and ignited the matchstick and brought it closer to the Agarbatti. As I was expecting, the matchstick extinguished without igniting the Agarbatti. I took another matchstick and repeated the same, got the same result, then another matchstick and then another and one after other. Bounded by my pledge, I burned almost three dozens of matchsticks without achieving my goal. But instead of giving up, I continued with it. Now there were only a limited matchsticks lying in the box. I took another matchstick and repeated what I was doing before. Nut finally, this time, after burning almost 50 matchsticks; I succeeded in igniting the Agarbatti, with the fan soaring on maximum. It made me so happy...

The God has answered to my questions through this event. It symbolized the reality of life. When the conditions are favorable, everyone will be on high, but the real victory is for those who survive in unfavorable conditions. To succeed, one should have belief in himself. We should fight the problems we face, instead of running away from them, and then the victory will be ours. The fight should go on till we achieve our goal. I might be in trouble at present, but my day will certainly come. Whatever happened today has waked me up. If you are still sleeping, then as I said in the very first line, it’s time to wake up now...