Make peace with your present..!!

An interesting incident happened in Metro Train today!!

I was travelling by metro train on yellow line today, to every passenger’s surprise an insect entered inside the train just before train doors were closing. It was big in size and looked like a butterfly but with very dark ugly color. It started wandering inside the coach and passengers could feel trouble caused by it now. A few tried to hit it, a few stood up from their seat in panic. This happened for 10 minutes and that insect was flying from one seat to other causing some discomfort to every passenger.

Finally it sat just above the head of a girl (she was busy reading a book and did not notice the whole panic situation) on the glass window. That girl very cheerfully told her friend look here is a butterfly (yes it looked like a butterfly but with an ugly color which she ignored), she was happy to see a butterfly around her. She did not try to hit it; she did not panic, she did not shout, she was very calm. And to my surprise, in return, the butterfly also sat quietly there for rest of the journey. It did not trouble her or rest of the passengers anymore, once that girl has made peace with it and was comfortable to have it around. The girl continued reading her book with same interest (she was surely enjoying it!).

Same thing happen with us in our life too, when something is troubling us and we react in panic or we lose our temper and senses to that situation, it just worsen the situation. Panic, anger or shouting doesn’t help at all, we are just destroying some priceless moments of life by doing so. The best way is to make peace with it and keep your calm. Like that girl who was happy to have a butterfly around her, although rest all were reacting in discomfort for same situation. It would solve all the problems and things or at least would keep you at peace. Make peace with your past and present, respect and cherish your present even if it has ugly color but still it’s a butterfly. And in return we will receive peace from our present and that shall give way for a better tomorrow and some cherish-able moments of present.

Because this journey of life would end surely sooner or later and at that time we won’t be thinking about what we got in life, more important thing would be that what we did with it which we got in life.

Life is not just about how much we got here, it is more about how much we cherished it and enjoyed here!!

-Ajay Bamel