Croakings of a Clumsy Frog -- 1

 

Well, well, well it has been worth it. The storm of course had steely nerves. But then it inspires the very same in you. Unstretched you are just a lethargic, spiritless loop of rope, waiting for the time and its agents to nibble at your sinews. Stretched you become a taut bowstring ready to unleash your potential into the existence around you. Unstretched you are a mere creation, a product. Stretched you are a creator, hurtling your potential on the ever-expanding canvas of creation.

Accepted that it was a blizzard worth its salt. A whirlpool of energy whipping up an expansionist storm. But then it also had every right for expansion like all things, phenomena and living beings. Importantly, it hardly left any visibility on the real creative stage of my life. Adversities are simply new avenues for the expansion of our potential.

Trying to see the way out, I strengthened the muscles of my will power and the eyesight of my inner self. I feel better with the iron in my spirit. Nothing goes waste fella. This is the law. Even the most unfavourable lot cast by the fate can’t overrule this. The most it can do is to take away the most common and expected result of one’s endeavour. And is that loss worth crying for and devalue the precious gain in the real substance of your existence?

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Laughing at one’s own follies in life surely prepares one for gentle, solacing smiles at others.

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He was a saint for he sat stoically among the garbage dirtier than shit. The dog saint, the holy friar of an unholy shrine. And me the follower, the dirty puppy playing in the filth. Now if I drive my soul mad to get enlightenment, do you think there can be a bigger fool?

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A star shines in my eyes. It shoots off on an exciting, perilous journey, leaves a dusty whiz across my horizon and its remnants, instead of crashing into the sea, land on my head. I get a nice crater on my heart.

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What is success after all? Is it beating others in their achievements? Or meeting others' expectations from you? Or surpassing your own dreams? Or a wispy, pleasant feeling at the day end, ‘Fella you have not been a mere weight on earth!’

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The sun shines bright this morning. I raise my tired eyes and look across the desultory forlornness. A dream beckons from a distance. I just smile and turn my face away, ‘No more runs after the mirage, Fella.’

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A spider's best chance of landing with prey lies in casting web and wait patiently instead of hopping around to catch one. Use your best faculty Fella, however mundane it appears to you. A mosquito has to be as proud of its tiny sting as a mighty lion is of its massive, cleaving bite.

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All pigs are good. Unfortunately, we can't say the same about the humans. And all donkeys are elegant gentlemen. Again we can't say the same about we humans.

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