Dear Sanath,
Times have passed- some good and some bad. Avenues have been explored- some fruitful, some a dead end. Life still moves on and I have lived it as best as I could. The praises heaped and the eye brows raised by others have not had an impact on me. They are fleeting moments of pleasure or heartbreak. The silent moments where I have sat by myself and contemplated life and things I had done have largely made me what I am today. I have committed a great many mistakes for which I have brooded a lot and finally forgiven myself for. I have performed a few good deeds, which in retrospect have made me really happy. The best times have always been when I did good by myself and not affected anything or anybody around me. Time and again life has given to me what I thought I would never need, but ultimately could not live without. Whether I went behind things or whether I stood waiting, they have always arrived and they have helped me along.
Choices were abundant. Lines of thought were abundant. Philosophies of life were abundant. But the over riding theme of everything was that life progresses, no matter what. On the point of choices, whether it makes you feel good about yourself or not, the truth is choices are always right or wrong. But, being wrong is just a perception and it is not absolute. Being right is also the same, although a great big majority would agree on right decisions than on wrong decisions. So, to rephrase, choices have been right or easy. From what I have understood, choices when right, make you feel good regardless of the outcome. The easier choices do not give you a feeling of satisfaction and bug you for days on end. Further on those lines, when you make a choice without knowing what you are getting into, they have never worked well for you- they were just the easy choices. Then again, there were a few choices were you knew what you were getting into and still took the easier choice instead of the right one. I am writing this to you only because these choices have shaped me. As I have rightly heard in some movie, 'History is never an accident. It is always a choice'.
You will undoubtedly reach this stage in life and think about everything in retrospect as I am right now doing. If there was anything in my life that I had to change, It would be the easier choices. Now that I know they were not right for me, I would like to go back and lead a perfect life. Then again, I would not have had the experiences that I did without all those choices, good or bad. Just a warning that your life is ahead of you and you have the time to take the better and the right choices all the time. Though, I shall not complain if you chose either way because then we would have a chance to meet just as we are.
From
Dr. Sanath Kumar,PhD
Nobel Laureate for time travel :P
