A few months ago while surfing on the internet I read a
story on life with a caption asking the readers or I can say planting a million
dollar question in the minds of the people who are seeking answer of the question…
what is life??? When I heard this
question in a prayer meet of my church youth wing member… it made me think… I
couldn’t find an answer and the guy even made us read the bible, he gave us
lots of examples relating to life and the problems and the pressures that life
in this fast paced world could mean…. But still was not content with the answer
and even after the prayer meet was over and days… months… and might be years
passed… but I couldn’t find an answer to that question… but still I was searching…
then once while surfing on the internet I came forward to a story… a story of a
young girl who can do anything and make it come true…all she had to do was
choose something and focus… so one day while she was sitting at her room she
came across an canvas painting with a complete black background and stared on
it continuously… after she couldn’t find anything special or meaningful she
took it to her painting room and started to fill in colours and made it more
and more colourful every stroke of her painting was such an gracefully
converging and perfect than the next that within few hours after she completed
her painting she gave an personal touch and gave an personal look to her work…
she stared on it proudly… and she smiled and was proud of her work… it was an
flawless masterpiece.. Even the stars and clouds and the moon were so much
happy with her work accepted that she had a gift… a unique blessed gift…!!! She
was an artist…And she knew it too... But a few moments after she finished
painting, she got anxious and quickly stood up.
Because she realized that while she had the ability to do anything in
the world she wanted to do, she was simply spending her time moving paint
around on a piece of canvas. She felt like there was so much more in the world
to see and do – so many options… And if
she ultimately decided to do something else with her life, then all the time
she spent painting would be a waste… So
she glanced at her masterpiece one last time, and walked out the door into the
moonlight… And as she walked, she thought, and then she walked some more…While
she was walking, she didn’t notice the clouds and the stars in the sky who were
trying to talk to her…She was utterly stumped. Twenty-five years later, the
girl began to cry…Because she realized she had been walking for so long and
that over the years she had become so enamoured by everything that she could do
– the endless array of possibilities – that she hadn’t done anything meaningful
at all. And she learned, at last, that
life isn’t about possibility – anything is possible. Life is about making a decision – deciding to
do something that moves you…So the girl, who was no longer a girl, purchased
some canvas and paint from a local craft store, drove to a nearby park, and
began to paint…One stroke gracefully led into the next just as it had so many
moons ago…And as she smiled, she continued painting through the day and into
the night…Because she had finally made a decision…And there was still some time
left to revel in the magic that life is all about.
