Monday, November 17, 2008

the foot prints

It’s a long journey along the shores of the beach. And it all started well for boy. Walking was never a problem for him at the start. He just started as everyone, in the shades of his protectors. And walking didn’t fascinate him at first. He just saw his protectors leave a foot mark for him to follow. But at times he was surprised about the way in which they left a foot mark for him. But he blindly followed them till the time it was visible. Then the boy was shown a path, a path which was different from the direction of his protectors.

The boy realized that he has to go on in his own way from there. And at that time only he realized how important it is to leave a foot mark on his own. But the path which he chose was not deserted. He started his journey in a direction, watching carefully all the foot marks he makes. He was really fascinated to do it on the own. But the real distraction came when he saw other foot prints on the sand. He found some of them interesting and others were not much attractive to him. His curiosity for other foot prints made him forget about his own. But that was not really a concern for him at that time. There were so many foot prints, which crossed him, which he crossed, which were made with his help and the help with which he made. It was all a big confusion, a confusion which is often loved by people of certain age.

One fine day, he found himself walking alone, with no foot prints around. And only at that time, he was able to see the foot prints which he had made all the way. When he started the journey on his own, he had a desire of leaving his foot mark in a certain way. But that is not the way it is now. At that point of time, he didn’t regret about what had happened in his journey or blamed anyone for making it happen like that. But he learnt how to go on. He realized “only his legs can make the foot marks and all the others can just have an impact in making those. Impacts can be of varying effects. But the most important thing is he making his own foot prints.” Realizing that, he just continued to walk along the shore with more consciousness.