Have we started walking yet?

A learned scholar had once said “life’s a journey”.

In any journey, at the start we walk slowly, but once familiar with the path we increase the pace and eventually end up running till the time we reach our destination.

During the course of the journey each and every traveler comes across a zillion road blocks in various forms, however the default setting of crossing over any road block and continuing the journey takes us through. Some one has rightly said in a movie “The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place and it doesn’t care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it.You or nobody, is gonna hit as hard as life. But it isn’t about how hard ya hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward”

Nearly at the end of the third decade of my journey, after encountering some road blocks, I was constantly telling myself that I am done running. However the other day while taking a breather from my self proclaimed run, I just happened to spot two ace runners. The first one was this lady who was trying to smoothen this rocky path she had walked on for nearly half of a century so that her son’s journey is easier. The second one being this deaf and dumb middle aged guy, who despite of his physical challenges was enjoying every moment of his journey to the fullest at a shopping mall with his loved ones.

These amazing people made me realize that though I had concluded that I was done running, the fact was that I hadn’t even started walking. The point that I wanna make here is that whenever, we “the travelers” feel that we are done running we should look around and ask ourselves a question “Have we started walking yet?”