A Life called Balloon

Sometimes looking at the balloons scares , its so unpredictable to lose a beautiful balloon that one has. Just a gust of warm air, just a cool AC temperature, the walls, roof, etc, everything is a potential instrument to burst a balloon. If you look at a balloon and its life, it just cant take anything for granted. it just survives at the mercy of everything around it, including the air inside and the air outside. Life too is most often like a balloon but we ignore this aspect when we live it the way we want it. We believe our today, tomorrow and day after is in our control, but rarely so.

Today morning my colleague, Ruth was narrating a horrifying sight that she saw while travelling in her van to office. one kid run over by bus and and his head covered by a cloth by the people who had gathered around them. What a shock to some of us , though we are not related to him but related by humanity, related to the emotions and feelings that the child would have when he started for school, related to the feelings of the parents who lost their children to be never found again. Isn't it the life of a balloon that you and me live.

As a balloon proudly pumps up with extra air to grow big, but doesn't realize that in a fraction of a second it will burst and then not to be valued or used or enjoyed. If the balloon is not blown to its full, it looses the shape and beauty. so also our life if its not used to the maximum for the good purposes and opportunities, we loose the beauty and happiness in life.

Sometimes I wonder why people keep running after things which then so love or enjoy and before they have an idea of what they are running after they loose the race of life. We run after love, before we have enjoyed the full of love we start taking it for granted, we run after money and soon find that our family and friends have changed while we were busy running after money. We keep working to succeed and earn more and then we realize how much moment of life we have wasted just working for earning and not enjoying the time and work that we have got. cut-throat competition, poor economy, inflation, more people less job openings, qualification vs skills, etc. Isn't it so complex and worrying?

Just think for a moment what actually are we running after, how long are we given the opportunity to run in the manner we are running? Remember the balloon? I believe the fun of life lies in the moments we live, we live not to die, we live to life. The moments we enjoyed are the moments we lived. A life of a balloon is small, maybe sometimes a bit long, and then it bursts or shrinks, but it does well serve the purpose. Our life too is made to serve the purpose, are we running after money , fame , success, etc. The solution is, just be good and every thing will follow. never take anything in life for granted, people, relationships, things, etc, all are worth in this life. The moment we take things for granted, that is the same moment we have started to lose the life's race. Very similar to the balloon, it doesn't take anything for granted till it exists. :-)