I'm Stubborn, When I Know
I'm Right
Stubborn is what I'm labeled with when I stand resolute on
something I think is right and just. Often I think I know everything there's to
know about a certain thing. I make up my mind and am very clear about the way I
feel about it. There are no doubts, no arguments entertained. Like those
permanent crease that are imprinted in my hands I know there aren't going to be
any alterations. My sagacities are well defined and there's little scope for any
change.
Only if things were so straightforward. Only if I wasn't a
human and didn't have this capacity of being molded by the circumstances and
people around. Only if unlearning and casting off was an option and this grey matter
inside my head was not growing. Only if I wasn't maturing with each passing
year and starting to realize that the colors in visible spectrum of my cerebrum
keeps growing and there will never come a time, not now, when I can be
completely right and wrong. There will always be perspectives and circumstances
to weigh in. There's nothing like certainty. I'm never going to be certain again.
Every time he tried to reconstruct the internal arguments
that had led to his decision, they sounded feebler to him.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Young me, certain, confident
life seemed easy, comfy,
cheery
less I knew, knew what I had
to do
what wasn't fine, what wasn't
right
when I was or wasn't alright
sketches I drew, so many
only pencil I used, shades so uncanny
differences easy,
light and dark
easily marked,
in and out so stark.
Stubbornness-my way, I recall
no paradoxes, when I flew I
didn't fall
never I gave a second thought
there was no point of coming
back
I knew I was coursing the
right track
again sketches I drew, so many
some colors I used, used so
barely
canvas was scrambled, seems
what I got
was some misconstrued blueprint
of a plot.
I grew, spent more time
seen, litany of complaints and crimes
like everyone else, peccant mortal I am
exposed to the tableau of right and wrong
seen rise and fall of both weak and strong
sketches that I make now, colors so many
polychromic in feel, sensuous so scenery
judgments are blurred now, ever a scope for
things
insatiable life now, engulfing whatever it brings.
Let go of certainty. The opposite isn't uncertainty. It's
openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up
sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but
never stop trying to learn and grow.
~Tony Schwartz
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