As we grow up, we slowly start to
understand what life means, sometimes it is an acceptance of what we want to
hear, or what has been told to us and at times it is about really really
understanding what life is.
As I had entered the fag end of my
twenties, I despaired, not knowing the answers, not being close to any kind of
realization that I sought. And I could see the decade pass by. Changes came and
became part of life. And before I knew it, I was in my thirties.
All through human history,
twenties is the age when great things have been achieved, when inventions have
changed the course of history, when explorers have found new horizons. And we
tend to waste it up, not taking risks or chasing the 5 minutes of fame. And
there is evolutionary evidence to support why it is so.
But then I remembered something I
had read long back. 2 of world’s greatest religions were started by 30 year
olds. One left his house at twenty nine in order to search the truth while the
other returned to the city which would persecute him three years later.
But the questions searched for by
the former still stands – “Jwara, Byadhi, Mrityu” – “Old age, sickness, death”
and so the quest still stands. The surprising answer that Yudhisthira gave to
the Yakshya rings true. And that’s where the new decade holds its promise. And
when you have your best friend by your side, through thick and thin and failed
dietary expeditions, you have the courage to face everything.
Wiser, better, stronger! Thirties
is where the game will unfold. A year’s gone, a new one’s just begun. What
better time is there to remind yourself of it the decade and its desires!
