A jolt is all you need.
A significant push, an apple falling on the head, a sudden revelation, a kick in the nuts to shake you out of the comfortable universe you live in.
These shoves come in various forms, intensities and sometimes, when you expect it the least. Some of them will shake you to the core and leave you in a daze, others might bore a hole through your heart and some others will just leave you older and wiser. In a way, all of these are good. It demonstrates that nothing ever is constant and those who like stability must just settle for a different planet.
Just yesterday, I was having this conversation about satisfaction, how every other person is never satiated. How we would never be able to identify how much we already have and hungrily eye things other have, which we think might just be able to make us more contented. The fat person wants to be size zero, the person with acne wants spotless skin, the person with the darker skin tone wants to get fairer, the brunette wants to go blond, the bald person wants lustrous, flowing hair, the one with the crutches wants to walk without a limp, the deprived wants to be abundant, the affluent person just wants some peace, the lonely single person wants a relationship, the bird in the cage wonders how it would feel to free, and the independent person wants a grounding to state some examples. Every day we see so many illustrations of the ‘wanting ranting’.
It’s a constantly growing wish list and there is never a looking back at what we have which would be so precious to others.
These jolts help us to stop for a minute and think about the goodness around us, how blessed we are, and how we could be happier, honest people with what we have and strive to make the world a slightly better place in our own humble way.
It might happen, as the days go by and one grows older and begins to think that they know better that the brakes are stepped on unpredictably and sometimes unjustifiably and leaves you lying awake staring at the ceiling wondering what you did to put yourself in the wrong. But even on those days, the reassurance is that the jolt is for the good.