All things perfect need to be done at the
perfect time. Timing is the essence of it all. Sure, you’ve done everything it
takes for it to be perfect, sure there’s nothing you think that’s left in
making it what it had to be, but everything gets crappy when things get
delayed. You’ve made a perfect office project and you should be proud of having
done such a wonderful work at it, but you’re not, nobody is, not even your
boss. Why?? Because you made it so perfect that the time when it was needed you
didn’t even have it! At a family dinner you asked your mom to skip the dessert,
“I’ll make the best dessert ever!!” You made the best dessert ever! You made it
perfectly! You put the best taste into it and decorated it with cherries and
chocolate. Alas! You decorated it so much that the guests went home with just
the hope of you completing your dessert till breakfast.
It’s good to do things perfectly, but sometimes
there’s just a thin line between doing things perfectly and over-doing them.
You just need to identify that line, even if you do it just with your right
foot standing well before the line and left foot in the air almost about to
fall out of the line. It’s good enough if you just hold the left foot back and
remain inside the line. I’ve seen other people (and myself) sometimes crossing
the line, even going so far beyond the line that I can’t see the line anymore!
And believe me, it’s completely okay to cross the line, but then that is only
okay when it’s in the beginning, once, twice, thrice... You must get back into
the line once it starts becoming a habit. Trust me it works professionally,
personally and emotionally! It’s normal to sometimes not realize the value of
time when we are lost in doing something we like, or something for someone we
love. But the damage happens when we stop realizing that it’s not okay to
always do the same thing knowing what harm it can do. And this last line goes
for everything in life.
Agreed, we being humans can for once control
the urge to make things perfect all the time and forgetting the time limit. But
what are we to do when not a human but life does the same mistake, plans
something, puts us into the scene, starts doing it and in the process, starts
overdoing it, and overdoes it so much that we get tired of wanting the thing to
happen! What if we do everything in time but life doesn’t? What if we plan
something and life has different plans? The only thing we can do is wait until
the plans match, until we want the same thing from life as life does from us,
until life completes what we've been waiting for.
If we look at it the other way round, it’s a
good thing. As I said we take time when we try to make something perfect, may
be life’s trying to make something perfect for us! What if while we’re thinking
nothing is in our favour and while we’re crying over little delays, life is
secretly painting a bigger picture for us! What if it’s magic, something that
we can’t see until complete, something that doesn’t show on the canvas until
fully painted? Isn’t it something you haven’t thought until now? If it is,
think about it now! Give life a chance, some time. Allow life some delays. Wait
for your bigger picture, your perfectly baked cake with cherries on the top!
But that’s what life does, not you. Until life does it work in its own time,
you keep trying to reduce delays and wear your running shoes, for it’s a race
and it’s the one who runs faster who wins, not the one who runs “beautifully in
style”(Smirk). Ciao. Have a lovely Monday. Keep working, keep achieving, keep
smiling, until life brings you new joy. J
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