The day i was delivered a life i hadn't subscribed for...!

Most of us, have at one time or another subscribed for books, magazines, digests, newsletters etc. If not, then you must at least have subscribed for a newspaper or seen someone do it! How would you react if the paperboy dropped off a newspaper which isn't the one you subscribed for? Most would be furious because they begin their day with a hot cup of tea/coffee and a paper. That is the only relaxed part of most people's hectic life today. And if it's ruined by a paperboy's little fault, it seems to turn the whole house upside down. But isn't the reason for being upset actually baseless in a way?

Yes, agreed the newspaper you wanted was not the one got, but doesn't it contain almost the same news and content? A day of reading current affairs from a different paper shouldn't really be fussed about so much, should it? And yet there you stand, unhappy, restless, with a frown stuck on your face. All the frustrations piled up from previous issues are all taken out on a poor kid.

If this is the case with a small matter of a newspaper, then how do you think you would react if you were faced with a problem, only bigger! Say you subscribed for a year of Reader's Digest and you were being delivered Children's Digest every single month instead. Every month you complain to the authorities about the issue and you are apologised to, each time with an assurance that this act wouldn't be repeated. But comes the next month, and there lying on your second step early in the morning is yet another copy of Children's Digest, with some cartoons jeering right into your face! And BAM! Your morning, your day is messed up with again. You complain to God, you crib to your spouse as to why everything has to go wrong in your life. WHY YOU?!

Well.. What about the issues much bigger than this?! What about your LIFE.. Most people complain to God everyday for the life they've received. It wasn't the one they had subscribed for either, is it? How many people can say their life today is something they had dreamed of 5 years back? If you are going back your timeline, trying to think what your dreams were back at that point of time, then clearly you're not living your dream! Do you feel that the people actually living their dreams are just lucky 'cos they were delivered a life they asked for? Well.. you might have to rethink the 'lucky' quotient.

I do believe that everything happens for a reason. In context with the wrong newspaper, who knows there might have been a news item that you wouldn't have found in your daily copy, and maybe that was one of the stepping stones which could have helped you to reach your goal. What if your kids have been reading and benefiting from the Children's Digest copy, which you wouldn't have subscribed to otherwise. Maybe they loved you more after, being in an illusion that this was your way of surprising them! What if the life you're being delivered is nothing but a bunch of hidden opportunities waiting to be stumbled upon and you're blinded because of the cloud of your own displeasure!?

Making the best of the situation is the secret to realizing your dreams, i think. First you are sent a set of wrong subscriptions, then you are sent the right subscription with the wrong packing, followed by a set of right subscription but a wrong cover page, till your perseverance pays off and you finally get what you wished for, dreamed for. The REAL DEAL! And that day will once and for all blow away all the clouds that might have gathered. So don't stop 'cos you might be just one step away from finding that silver lining in the clouds!

I haven't received the life i subscribed for... not yet atleast. But i will do my bit, and keep looking for my silver lining and fight my way through the clouds till i find that opening to the time where it will finally be delivered! Tathastu.

I looked up to find my clouds move in their usual pace,

"Not again!" , i murmured under my breath,

He smiled knowingly at my jaded face,

"You know you'll wait, don't you? So don't fret!"

If only my malady wasn't so obvious, i wished,

For there was more pity than love when he kissed.