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Dropping the ball!

Mistakes are never welcome! Dropping the ball is considered crime! But often times there are situations in life where we are convinced that the current pursuit is wrong and at the same time, fail to convince the crowd on the same. In such a case, will you carry the baton in the spirit of team play, or drop it and face the consequence? This is a true test of character.

Dropping the ball is other’s interpretation of your action in the proclaimed frame of reference – even though it’s your conscious act! Positive mistakes such as this are not easy to make. Requires a lot of courage and belief on the power of purpose!

Great dreamer doers in the crowd like Gandhiji / Nelson Mandela have shown the power of positive mistakes – that have stood the test of time than any other monument! Every organization/community will have a few such heroes who dare dropping the ball in pursuit of their purpose of life!

It’s worth making positive mistakes even if it amounts to dropping the ball – occasionally? A sign of freedom! As Gandhiji put it:

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes!”

Every journey needs a start. Most of visionary journeys start with an external influence – internalized! – like our friend here:     

A crow once flew into the sky with a piece of meat in its bleak. Twenty other crows set out in hot pursuit and began to attack it viciously.

When the crow finally dropped the meat, its pursuers left it alone and flew off shrieking after the morsel.Okyo_Crows[1]

Said the crow: “I’ve lost the meat and gained this peaceful sky.”

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When is the last time you exercised freedom to make a positive mistake even though it amounted to dropping the ball?

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Sidestepping

Freedom is more and more a journey than a state or pursuit. Especially in a rat race, the committed ones have to run the race even when they win! That’s the beauty of commitment! Freedom is always elusive!

Running a race helps in its own way. For many, it gives the drive, motivation and a sense of superiority/achievement. Winners feel happy and run more, for more!¦ Incidentally they might move so far away from life that all they will know and can do is being a rat in the race!

Dreamer Doers in the crowd run the race a little differently. They make it a true performance a dance! They frequently sidestep and look forward! Sidestepping is a critical part of the beauty of all dance forms. It lets all parties enjoy the dance when they are on the floor not when they can not be!

In rat race, sidestepping and looking forward is critical to maintain the work-life balance! It needs courage to let others take over  especially the followers! But, provides a taste of freedom – an opportunity to define, design and run a new race on own terms  till others catch up!

Sidestepping is very powerful only when done gracefully, not forcefully! It is not giving up it is getting up firmly  to be counted again! Else….

What got you here is what will get you there!

It is a real rough terrain for any young and adventurous to climb this102_2041 mountain when it is raining. But the joy of being there is unexplainable. We had heard the beauty of the trek and the sight from the top.

This time around, rain was too much. The path covered with mud, slippery rocks and leaches to scare. Most of us thought it is really foolish to climb up in that condition. After an intelligent debate, we concluded to give up and started climbing down as fast as we can…

Midway, we met an old man climbing up with real calmness and full of joy. We could not stop. We asked him, “How will you ever get there in this kind of weather, can’t you step back?”

The old man answered cheerfully, “My heart got there first, so it’s easy for the rest of me to follow.”

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