Your Second Chance!

Your time starts, NOW!

When I was about seven, I had heard about a trick, which totally changed the way I started looking at the world. Here I am sharing it with you, my dear readers! (it stays between us though ;) )

Ten years from now,

Imagine yourself amidst loneliness and misery, sitting on a lone rock by an abandoned farmhouse. You are sitting there, filled with regret, for all the mistakes you’ve made intentionally, for all those opportunities you saw coming but ignored. You scream in remorse, once, twice and the third time, you yell out God’s name. You start begging for a second chance, desperately, deliberately, as if you have a lot of changes to make in your past and you just know exactly which and where, how and when. All you need is to go back. 

God hears you, he not only hears you but blesses your wish to come true. 

However, he keeps forth a condition.

The condition states that although you will get back the past ten years of your life, you will remember nothing about getting a second chance after having got it. Absolutely nothing.

You joyously and gratefully nod your head and inhale deeply, as you promise yourself to change your life for the better.

You all are pretty lucky though, after having got your second chance, you have also known that it is a second chance after coming across this article. 

Just kidding, you know I am. But think about it again. Look at your life as a second chance. A chance where NOW is when the time is all yours. When you get to choose how to spend it, how to make the best out of it. Is that not wonderful? If that is not, I don’t know what is. 

We all tend to take a few things so leniently, as though they were just supposed to be the way they are. But that is extremely wrong. We have to be grateful to these few things all along our lifetime...at least until they are there with us.

Back to a day when I was seven,

One early morning, I decided to pour some water on my elder sister to wake her up. It was just an innocent mischievous thing kids do, so I did it too, not that I didn’t like her. But things came out pretty much differently…

I sprinkled a few drops on her face and she immediately got up. I was expecting some aggressive words from her, or at the worst some versions of ‘stupid’ and ‘donkey’ but she sang out a happy, cheerful “Yes!” as if she just won a football match in Olympics. Then she smiled, naturally, and prayed to God. 

She left me in a lot of confusion though. For years, I stacked that incident in my list of weird incidences. 

Now when I look back, I realise why she did it. She used to say the ‘Yes!’ every morning. It was her way to thank life, for a new day, for having kept her safe and sound on the beautiful morning of a beautiful day, and for keeping her loved ones only as fit and fine as her. 

Is that not something we take for granted? A new day. It is a blessing to live a new day. We all shall be grateful for it. All things that are free of cost don’t mean they are worthless. Some things have an inexplicably lot amount of worth...

Yes, a new day, a new start, a new chance are all free of cost, only because they are all too valuable to even think about their worth.

Lastly, I would like to wish you all a great day ahead and I would especially want to congratulate you for the very fact that you are alive!

(Yeah, now you are supposed to say “Thank you” because your time to start appreciating your life for giving you a chance to live and for making the best use of it, starts NOW!)