For anyone who's been stopped by a red signal, it comes as no surprise to see the same maniac who overtook you at the last corner sitting equally helplessly behind his wheel, just a few paces away.
"Serves him right"- (my instinctive reaction)
There are quite a few people you meet this way, either at a traffic signal or a traffic jam.They're the same ones who think nothing of breaking the speed limit (pardonable.After all, getting to cross the 30 kmph mark in a crowded metropolis is a rare luxury, so i don't really hold that too much against anyone.), overtaking from the wrong side (now that's dangerous!)or changing lanes without so much as a blink of the lights (c'mon, it really doesn't exhaust your battery you know, to keep the signalling lights on for a coupla seconds).
But to what end?
Ultimately, they also ended up having to wait (for longer than you too).
Which leads me to think, isn't there something similar in our lives as well?
Shakespeare wrote on it; 'Death - the Leveller'.
But even without going as far as death, i've noticed that such situations occur quite often in daily life as well.
By now some of you surely must have wondered, what about the ones who got away?
Obviously, everyone isn't detained by the Exalted Supreme One (ref : S.Nagar). So in the end, we never know whether what we do, really has any effect on our destiny.
For all our efforts, we may share the fate of those who never lifted a finger in their lives. And equally (?) possibly achieve far more than those who (in human terms) actually deserve what we get.
Is this LUCK,the elusive temptress who seduces gamblers all over the globe?The same sorceress who cons the unwary into thinking that their actions matter when it is She alone, who reigns invincible?
Been wondering when ur suppressed "virtuous" road-rage would show up on the blog!!!
ReplyDeleteWell, the happenings you mentioned, in my opinion, are neither Luck nor Destiny, as one may be inclined to believe. I am convinced from experiments in my life (ok, don't wanna sound too philo, but it's true)that the Universe gives back to you what you ask for, consciously or otherwise... (I know i sound like Rhonda Byrne, but there are few better ways to express this thought)
so i guess you were justified in cursing with a "Serves you right!"
Keep blogging in the face of End-sems!
It's possible that something you achieved after tremendous effort, someone else got without lifting a finger. But then (ok, don't wanna sound too philo, but it's true) that person won't be mentally satisfied, will he?
ReplyDelete(I know i sound like Samuel Goldwyn, but there are few better ways to express this thought) "The harder i work, the luckier i get."
And 'Death- the Leveller' is by James Shirley...you can't afford to mix that up!