One More Musing
So one more age old adage has joined the list of deceased. I’ve blown the air out of cliché that the situations can’t be bad than this. Yes, they can be worse, yes my dear friend they can be. There exists no phenomenon called hitting the rock bottom. When you start falling down, you can go on & on, without reaching any end. You travel through the cursed hollowness like the chatter of Shekhar Suman. Here I would like to caution the reader that I am not getting too much negative. Its just that I am talking about some facts of life which are, unpalatably, blunt & stark.
All the path breaking observation which have been talked above can be easily compared to the rise of a person or for that matter any entity. Like when you start progressing, you move on & on, breaking old barriers, setting new standards & leaving the people agape. You feel that sky is the limit & incredibly, it is. Mankind has demonstrated over & over all these years & centuries that you can reach any height, you can desire anything & you can do almost everything. So like you can ascend to a peak from where you can see a higher peak enlightening you that the journey of success is never ending, always pushing you to a new & exciting point. You can also descend to the darker than the darkest depths thus coming across the worse than the worst circumstances, thus getting inflicted with the severe most treatments & conditions.
We can easily draw a parallel from the current quagmire of USA in Iraq. In the pre-war period, its designs were supported only by a handful of nations, thus, opposed by the rest of world & that fiercely too by powers like Russia, France & Germany, thus, giving a considerable blow to its plans. After that, US found its face red when during war Saddam Hussein managed to sneak out of US hold engineering another famous & great escape a la Osama. And adding injury to the insult, US & England have failed comprehensively to find even a bolt of the much touted WMDs. And now in the post war Iraq, the coalition forces are putting up against more hostile conditions than those of war days. And if we study statistics we can get more clear & moving picture. The American troops which were earlier being killed in numbers like 2 or 3 are now attaining martyrdom in double figures at once. He recent chopper shoots & blasts are fitting examples to this.
All the above stated facts prompt me to proclaim that there is nothing like worst case scenario or ideal scenario. However tough & near impossible targets you set for yourself you can always perform better than you expectations & imagination. In same vein, however fool proof back up plans you have, how many systems you have in places things can go wrong in most unexpected circumstances. So whenever you conclude that things are on the lowest ebb & it doesn’t get worse than this, you are wrong. You haven’t reached the stability yet. You are either still nose-diving or, if you arte fortunate enough, you are back on the track in correct direction. As in the journey of life there are no assuring stops, only brief halts.