Journey is too small!

A few days back, I heard my mom reading a short story. It goes something likewise:

A lady was commuting on a public bus at a peek office time. Fortunately, the next seat got vacated at the next stop. A lady fully loaded with luggage came and sat next to her. She pushed and pulled all her luggage which was quite an uncomfortable experience for her next seat passenger for sure.

But
Seeing all this happen, this humble soul said not even a word. The lady realizing that her actions might have been uncomfortable, as she was seeing somehow managing herself.

With this guilt feeling inside, she somehow managed the courage to ask her.
“Mam, I came in a rush,
sat beside you with loads of luggage,
settled with my belongings.
All of this might have disturbed you a lot.
Yet, you kept all quiet and collected.

Didn’t that bother you? “

The humble lady replied with a peaceful smile.

“No dear, it doesn’t matter as my journey with you was very small and I am going to get down at the next stop.”

A simple, very relatable incident, isn’t it?

I am pretty sure, each one of you would have had an experience before like this one.

How did you react then?

Don’t tell me but just recollect that moment.

As it will help you understand why I wrote this and what it means by
“Journey is too small.”

Let’s take another example:

Suppose you have won 1 crore rupees in a lottery, and a thief stole 10,000 bucks from you.

Will you throw the rest of the amount away, just because you lost a small share from it?

No right.

It might sound so stupid to even think of correct.

Then,

Why do we all waste our 86400 seconds (which makes a single day), just because some portion of it was stolen by a bad or unhappy incident?

Makes sense?

Couldn’t connect still, is it?

Life is full of ups and downs. Not a single day will go the same way as the other. In the long run of life, we all have pleasant and unpleasant moments. This could be a fight with your partner or an argument with your mom, or your maid was late, so you had to start late for office, or a presentation went wrong, or your manager made an un-realistic demand or your team member was rude to you and many more.

Keep counting these, it becomes uncountable.

That takes some time of your day when you are disturbed or tensed. This steals the peace of your mind for a certain portion of your 86400 seconds of a day.

Why let this small incident (the theft) or the source of the incident (the thief) destroy the bigger chunk of the treasure that you have in your hands.

Why?

You stay disturbed and this negativity spreads from you to everyone you meet or talk to. Your disturbed mind being pre-occupied, repeating this incident in a repeat mode. As a topping to this cake, you might get a call from someone close (maybe your partner). just to ask whether you had lunch on time. Instead of talking normally, you might even end up yelling at her. Likewise, you end up showing your disturbed mood to everyone you meet.

And, destroying your treasure with your own hands, just because you lost a few moments of your day.

Doesn’t that sound dumb act?

Anyone, at that point, would only say, I am also a human and not god so reacting to a situation is natural.

That human behavior.

Right,
That’s why we should think when we are vulnerable not by our head but from our heart.

The person who is talking to you (be it your partner or mom or son or daughter) are human beings too. They don’t deserve such rude and un-pleasant behavior just because they called you up to check on you.

Isn’t it?

Thus, goes the saying, “Each one of us has a very small journey when compared with this vast universe.” Don’t let any small incident which stole some of your pleasant time, destroy the rest.

“As the journey too small!”