The wall

, originally uploaded by naturewalker.

This is for Kavitha...

Kavitha is a woman I recently met- and immensely loved... at first interaction. Committed, serious, passionate- and somewhat experienced in the field of human failings!

She says in a recent FB post that she hit a wall... And my reply to her- actually even to my own self! started so-


The quality of your life is really determined by the size of your problems! Taller the wall- the more you will have in you to be able to climb over. Climb over- friend- the world is bright and sunny behind the wall. The wall may caste a shadow but that is not the whole world! Not even a part of it really. Breathe... heave..

And then I realised I wanted more space. I wanted to say more. I needed to say it to myself. I needed to tell myself that walls are meant to be climbed.

There may not always be a flight of stairs right alongside- conveniently and invitingly beseechingly- even- demanding to be scaled.

But Kavitha should know about that one!

She is an Ultra Runner!

And she is an Ultra liver!!

Really. I could fill volumes on what she has seen in life, and gone through. But it is not about that, is it?

It never is!

We live our lives in a world of our own making. We attach meanings to moments and to words. We feel sad quickly and take eons to 'find' reasons to be happy. And then... the happiness is short-lived!

We forget!
We forget to celebrate life!
We forget to tell the people in our lives they matter.
We forget to tell OURSELVES that we matter.
And we wonder!
We wonder what happened to the magic we believed life would be when we were small children.

I did!
I ALWAYS believed my life would be MAGICAL. It would be full of significance and of love. It would matter to each person I touched that I had touched their life. I would give freely. And...
... I became a doctor.

The most wonderful thing about being a doctor is you do not have to look for significance in your life. You live it EACH day!

And then...
We forget!!

We forget that we are living a rich life full of giving and receiving, full of love and emotion, full of people to whom we matter and who matter to us.

WE HIT THE WALL...

I HIT THE WALL...

I hit a wall in my fitness goals.
I hit a wall in my career path.
I hit a wall in my running.
I hit a wall in my...

STOP!!
We all say best what we need to hear most! The lessons of life will be repeated for us till we learn what we must from them! THAT is the design of life.

I started to say it in response to what a dear friend of a couple of meetings began. And I ended up finding in myself the wall and the stairs. I ended up discovering a spirit and a strength to go on...
To breathe...
And heave...
And keep on going...
On... And On...