Life is full of opportunities. Some we take, some we miss. Once we miss opportunities, we realize our loss and tend to break down. The road ahead seems uncertain, unclear and hazy. We think that we have been barred from something we have always wanted. Everything seems so unreal and blown away in the dust. We feel desolated in solitude. The world looms large and empty in front of us. We feel confused and hesitate.
But life shows us the way. Even though we may miss some
opportunities, life gives us new ones. These new ones are like a rebirth of the
missed opportunities. They give us a fresh breath of life. We are brought back
to our senses with the mighty revelation that we have been given another chance
to seize those opportunities we missed. The new opportunities may not be exact
in nature to the missed ones, but their depth remains constant.
There are no
more misses this time. Realization has dawned upon us like the rising sun of
the new dawn, with its orange-fingered rays spreading out and filling the
horizon in the not-so-distant eastern sky - with rejuvenated hopes and newly blossomed aspirations, emanating the joys of
reconciliation with our goal; the center source of enlightenment remaining firm
with our long-desired and forever-cherished beliefs.
Arise,
awake, and stop not till the goal is reached - Swami Vivekananda
