WHEN I SPILLED THE GLASS OF MILK, IT LOOKED LIKE MOON TO ME!!!

It is not soon that I heard mom screaming at the top of her voice to finish the milk. It was a regular stuff happening over and over again. I was ignoring her voice, a complete innocence though. The whole decibel level at my place could have invited the patrolling guards if I were in US. It was not just mom; it included the noisy quarrels between me and my sister. We were so lean into the fight that I tipped over the glass of milk and followed the deafening silence. “What happened”, she looked onto my face, not paying heed to the milk. I was so terrified over my mistake that I lost my voice. Everything else other than “MOON” was unheard in my reply. She glanced towards my sister who pointed out the dining area smeared with milk.

The slap was inevitable but the whole MOON thing resulted in a Uno count which could have been more. The smile signalling lower temperature under the roof was a relief. I was too small to realize what just happened but was happy that the innocence saved me. Sometimes we don’t even realize that how minute things simplifies the labyrinth path to our destination. The difference we see brings the difference in our life.

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” – Albert Einstein

The age old saying we live the life on how we perceive a glass half filled with water. People sometimes omit their fears with an optimism and surpasses the hurdle much more easily than he would have done earlier. We all get caught up in our stories. Most of us think we are our stories. It’s when those stories take on a life of their own, and that life isn’t the one we want, that things start to suck.

Think about the story we’re living right now. Who wrote it? Did one consciously decide to create the reality we’re living now, or was it mainly shaped by our parents, friends, spouse, school, or the media? If we don’t like the story that we are living, then change the perception. Envision how we would write the next chapter of our story. Better yet, actually sitting down and writing it would help. Focussing our perception on creating a new reality, one where we are in charge of the story. We should take back the job as screenwriter and director, and stop just being an actor (unless someone is like JULIA ROBERTS – I rather enjoy her acting).

Everything begins with a decision – decide now to be in charge of one’s own perception of reality. Because if we don’t, there are plenty of folks whose sole purpose in life is to craft that perception for us. Do we trust them to have our best interest in mind.....?

CHANGE STORY, CHANGE PERCEPTION and CHANGE OUR LIFE.