If things don’t work out the way as
they should, it is perhaps best to let go and let everything – and everyone –
just be!!
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| Angel Glady and Sunil Menon in conversation with Vaani and AVIS |
This weekend
has been more than interesting. Vaani and I have led a public conversation with
people who have a special orientation. This is part of a non-commercial,
by-invitation-only Event Series called ‘Heart
of Matter – Happiness Conversations’ that we host quarterly in partnership
with InKo Centre. Last evening, we had renowned fashion designer Sunil Menon
and theatre artist Angel Glady as our guests – it was a conversation that was
intimate, intense, thought-provoking and awakening. It helped people in the
audience reflect on their idea of happiness and invited them to turn
unequivocally inclusive. Elsewhere in the city, my brother, a well-known
theatre director and entertainment industry coach, staged a production that had
actors with special abilities perform in it. His production, I am told,
championed inclusiveness too and was highly, critically, acclaimed. Isn’t it
beautiful that both brothers, supported by their spouses, are doing work that’s
meaningful, in the same city, on the same weekend? Yet, what makes this rare coincidence
ironical too is that we brothers don’t speak to each other!!! We haven’t
connected in several years now. We remain strung, clinging on to our own positions,
in a web of deceit, manipulation and self-obsession that has been cast by
someone else. A third sibling, our sister, is strung from somewhere on the web
too. We all live in the same city and yet we can never quite figure out a way
out of this web. I have made attempts in the past, to unentangle this mess, but
I have found myself getting stung, not just strung, every single time. So, I
have let it all go. Concluding that perhaps the best thing to happen for all of
us is for us to be where we are, the way we are; but being happy, at peace with
ourselves, in spite of ourselves and each other!
Sometimes your Life’s design is so
intricately constructed by a web of actions that someone has woven that you end
up just being a helpless victim! But you have a choice to not feel like a
victim – just let go and let everything – and everyone – just be! And sometimes
this is the way Life has to be lived. There are no hard and fast rules in Life.
There is no guarantee that all homes and families will be the same. We all have
to do what we have to do. If in some cases, like in mine, things don’t work out
the way they should, it is best to just be. For, if
you are not weaving the web, how can you ever hope to unentangle it unless the
master-weaver awakens?
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