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The blindmen and elephant - story of our lives!

I am sure all of us remember the story of blind men and the elephant. How each blind man comes in contact with a part of the elephant and starts thinking the elephant is like a tree, or a snake or a fan etc.

I sometimes feel that our life is like that. At every stage in life, we are coming in contact with an aspect of life and we start thinking that this is life. As we grow older and when we have played the roles of all the blind men, we tend to put it all together and start figuring life as a whole. We get the whole picture then.

So till we are there, where we are ready to see life in full from every perspective, let's continue to play our role of the blind men and let's have the faith that life itself will reveal to us and we will experience life in full.

We will understand the whys and the why nots. We will get answers to all our questions and may be stop questioning the answers we have.

We will be truly and fully alive, living life on all engines gunning in full blast.

Till then, let's enjoy the journey. If the journey is beautiful, the destination will be even more stunning!

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