One more step, one more breath

All you need to avoid a fall is to take one more step, then another, and then another. You should be bothered about just one more step, forget about miles and more miles, these are meaningless without your step. One more step keeps you the journeyman. It means you are right there, still moving, still fighting. Victory is always alive as long as you are ready to take one more step.

Just like life means one more breath, living means one more step. Don’t fall, take at least one more step, then another, only this much. That’s all you have to do for life and living: one more breath, one more step. And your one more step becomes more significant than the endless miles and still more miles. Your step defines miles not the vice versa. One more breath, one more step. And you retain your chances to reach somewhere, where you surprise yourself the most in your achievement.

The darkness isn’t completely dark as long as the tiniest of a flicker burns steadily, unsteadily in any corner of the cosmos. It holds the chances of light, of a win, of a fight, sometime when conditions are more suitable. Hold your light. Hold your chances of a blaze. It can even be the littlest star shining in your fatigued eyes from the farthest distances across stormy clouds.

Just look back, some small-time remark of appreciation, some grateful bow, some serious acknowledgment, some feeble smile, some tiny reward to the tune of INR 500, some words of praise. Hold them. Cherish them. Pick them up from the dusty corners of your room. They are the treasure. They are the light, they are the breath, they are the one more step. One more step is as important as the complete journey. Or even bigger than that. A tiny flicker of light, lost in the darkish wombs of loss, is as big as the big-bang of primordial light and fire that created this universe.

Long before you conquer the word, learn to be happy with the tiny rewards that hold your dreams in piece, which sustain the life of your goals just like one more breath sustains your life. This tiny word of appreciation will one day turn into a massive trophy, a massive applause, with camera lights flashing around and thousands screaming fans. This little smile on your lips will turn into a broad grin of triumph.

Hold the littles in your life, acknowledge their role like one more step keeps the journey, and one more breath keeps life together.