Exploring the Unknown

This is something i wrote about 2 years back but now when i have the opportunity to reach a far greater audience i am tempted to post this here. Here it goes....

It takes a moment to read a question but it may take you hours to get to the answer, an answer which of course will satisfy you but there’s something more to it. Something which is an integral part of you, but you don’t know what exactly it is until it bursts out of your head and finally when you realize what it was, the failure has conquered and your frustration is evident to everybody. Just beginning to feel what rubbish??? I never asked you the question so there was no need arriving at a conclusion but you actually felt like reading these lines though the very nature of the question is still unknown. If you guessed it here you are probably thinking right, as it was this very nature of yours exploring the unknown which made you read through the lines. The two words “Nature” and “Unknown” play a significant role for it is either the nature which is not known to us or it is the nature that leads to the unraveling of the unknown.

Now just give this a thought “What is the most unpredictable thing common to all of us?”

After some thoughts the answer which u might get to is that “you don’t know the answer” or it will be our “nature”. I call nature erratic because people react to the same situations which they come across in incredibly different ways and they actually don’t know they reacted differently so they never think about it unless someone like me attracts their attention towards this.

But why do you react differently when you are the same person and most of you would not have confusion in claiming that you know yourself thoroughly, then where does this contradiction arise from? It is this alien within you who reacted to the situation, over whom you have but little control. It is that “alien” which broke free from the “you”. This alien might be in any form like liking, hatred, anger, frustration and what not. This alien when overrides you, you are not your normal self; it is that part of your nature which has so long been neglected within yourself. This alien is not experienced as it has not seen the outside world for it had been latent within. You reach a state of dilemma where you don’t know what to do and you give yourself completely to the alien. You become very vulnerable emotionally and otherwise for you have lost your balance, the alien who was at bay so far is making you pay. You lose interest in the outside for you are engaged in exploring the unknown inside. You are drawn within yourself where the alien is the guiding force and everything else be it be family, friends or your well wishers are faded within your own thoughts. The “You” wakes from the slumber only when you have paid a price and you keep gazing “how come my eyes were closed? How come I didn’t realize what was right?”

Well do you think this alien is worthy enough for paying a price? Or you don’t know how to get rid of it, just listen to the people who matter most to you and you for them, for they will always stand by you through thick and thin and most probably protect you from landing in thin.

So it’s solely your choice “YOU” or “The ALIEN”……………..