2 Minute drive...

How many times have you spent time laughing on the dance steps of a song from an old hindi movie, after you put the TV volume on mute. I am sure most of us have tried that, one time or the other. Have you tried playing a funny song from your IPod along with it? You will laugh your gut out. Definitely a worthwhile pass time when you are bored or sitting idle. You tend to relate those words to the steps of the song and most times they tend to match the song that you are listening to. Ever wondered how that happens?

So close to reality!!! A similar thing happens with us every time we are on the move. When you drive, obviously with your eyes wide open, you see a lot of people around you, driving, walking, standing or few in conversation with others. That’s the picture you see (TV) and when you have nothing specific to think about, your brain (IPod) starts the music. With every picture you see, music you are listening to will change. Haa shuffle mode is it?

“Why the hell is he honking? Get lost..I am not gonna give you the way.”

“Jackass…he is driving like a maniac”

“Wow…what a babe!!! Bad..she doesn’t have a good taste…look at the Idiot beside her”

“Now..which one was the shortcut? Oops guess I took the longest way possible”

“Go get a room you two…”

"Hey they are getting into fight...lets see who hits first"

Can any technology beat the music player in our mind especially when the music is being played as per your mood? You don’t need to worry about what you want to listen to and if the song you are listening to sounds not so good enough, music changes. Best part of it, you don’t need to put any efforts. Music does fade away with change in picture but in reality we frame opinions in trying to understand what we see. We frame those opinions as per our convenience, assumptions and of course our state of mind plays a role too. But somewhere down the line when we are in a similar position or situation, we tend to understand the other side of the story.

Now recall those moments when you yelled at someone for speeding or crossing the road. In peak hours, how many times have you crossed the road stopping a vehicle by just waving your hand? Your have a story to tell that you were standing on the other side of the road for a long time and you had to cross the road. There is also another side of the story to it, the story of the one who was driving the vehicle you just stopped. It doesn't end there, there was a third person who was observing you struggle crossing the road and a fourth who was observing the third staring at something on road and then the fifth…sixth…seventh…Everything is interconnected, isn't it? We tend to look at a person and try to perceive what he is up to, who in turn has a different perspective since he was looking at something else that you were unable to. Both, cant see each others views until the places change.

They say, simplest and most beautiful things in life, at times, gets ignored. You ignore a fact that you enjoyed talking to yourself in the drive without any influences and the same 2 minute drive has taught you more than what the entire day could offer. Now…what did it offer? Well… answer to that depends on the how we looked at the picture. I choose not to answer that question and generalize what each one of us had experienced while trying to understand what somebody was attempting.

But one thing that can be generalized is that if you go back to see the same picture that you saw a while back, it would have changed, not only in image but also in perception.

I was driving by when I saw him run.

I looked back, it was just a race.

I was driving by, I saw an accident.

I looked back, few friends were playing around.

I was driving by and I knew it was her.

I looked back, she had changed.

I was driving by when I heard someone call me.

I looked back, someone else had the same name.

I was driving by when the water reached the edge.

I looked back and realized that waves don't stay on shore.

I was driving by when I realized that few things were left behind.

I looked back but their destination changed.

I was driving by when I understood the miscalculation.

I looked back, traces of the steps were missing.

I was driving by and couldn't stop myself adoring few moments.

When I look back I see experiences following me.

Am I God?

When I woke up this morning, I had a strange feeling. A feeling that circled from mind to heart, logic to emotion and right to wrong. On most days, I would have called it confusion, but today, it isn't the case. It was not confusion, it was a strong feeling of doing what has to be done but weighing it in terms of moral and ethical conscience.

Weighing? Why do we need to weigh the moralities of a decision which you feel is going to do good for one or bad for the other if the intention is either of it? I am sure all of us take decisions based on how logical it is and what good it is going to do to us or the ones whom we have taken the decision for. Then why think about morality? We know the answer… “The decision we take, may not always be accepted”.

If the intuition of a decision is too high or rigid, we tend to go ahead and make the so called “people’ accept it and if the intuition is on the softer side, we tend to let it go, but that is only time bound, I assume. But, how many times have you let go a decision you made, unless and of course you couldn't take a stand on what you want. Interesting part of we humans comes up when we intend to take up that decision on a stronger note and we make sure that people accept our decision, by hook or crook.

These decisions, which may not be always beneficial to you or may not mean that you are not harming your own self or it might also mean something which might do good for someone else important to you. Let’s call this “forcing” a decision but if and when we do so IS IT NOT TOO GODLY? God forces his decisions on us whether we accept it or not!!!

How many times, decisions have been forced upon us knowingly or unknowingly. One is destined to be a cricketer…who made them one and whose decision was it…parents? Friends? One is destined to be an avatar…who influenced him? Followers? The ones who are not involved in that decision might be humble enough to say it is “destiny”. There is an old saying that “together we can make or break”. When one decision from too many people coincides they make it happen. Most times…it applies to individual decisions too.

GOD….? You don’t need powers to be one. You need not pull up the sun for it to rise or the moon, to balance life. You don’t need magic to make things happen in an instance. But one thing that makes us human’s equivalent to god is the way in which one “forces” decisions. God does it for good (they say)…we do it for good as well. Who’s good? Hmmm that’s something that one needs to debate about…

I took the turn when the sign said so.
I took the turn when the sign said so.
They said I was wrong…
I read the sign when the time said so.
They said I was wrong…

Swept by the time,
Stood by the sign,
I started being right...
As I was forced with a direction.

Learning was not tough.
Staying afloat was not enough.
Heard them say...
God has a reason, so why make it rough?

Learning was not tough.
Staying afloat was not enough.
I wrote my line...
God has a reason, if I give him mine.

I took the turn when the sign said so.
They said I was wrong...
I had my reason and took them around.
I read the sign when the time said so.
They said I was wrong...
I forced my reason and lead them along.

We blame God for something that went wrong and we thank him, at times, for doing something right.

As an individual you are judged as well, when your decisions go either way.

Except for the magical touch and the miracles that we heard about…there is a lot to compare between the two. Everyone has this intuition….everyone takes a decision at one point or the other…everyone, once in a while, force their own reasons… and all of this boils down to a question…Are you a GOD, in your own limitation? Are you a GOD, with your own reason? Are you a GOD, to think what is right and what is wrong? Are you a GOD, to own the responsibility of doing good or bad?

Are you a GOD? and Am I a GOD?