02 Jun 2013
“We never get what we want,
We never want what we get,
We never have what we like,
We never like what we have.
And still we live & love.
That’s life…”
My mom used to tell me a story regarding life and its choices; she always would tell me to choose wisely: one wrong move and you will ruin your whole life.
“The story of a Shoe”
“A girl was planning a long journey, a long time ago. So she bought a pair of shoes which she THOUGHT looked nice as well as comfortable. She had bought them without even trying them out for a while or asking anyone’s advice. When she started on her journey, the new shoes started pinching her feet. She ignored the hurt for a while, thinking that they are new and are bound to become comfortable after wearing them for some time. So she continued her journey
After a while, they did get comfortable a bit, particularly when she wore a pair of socks as well.
The journey was long. The socks got torn and the shoes started hurting her again
Soon there were blisters on the feet and then they burst and started bleeding because she continued her journey with the shoes on and had no choice, as that was the only pair she had. She met people on the way but she couldn’t tell them that the shoes hurt. After all, they were her own choice and she had to stick with the choice she made for herself.
Even if she told someone, the pain and the suffering she was going through, only she knew, no-one else could understand or feel its gravity.
She would take the shoes off at night, but the pain was too much and either gave her nightmares or a sleepless night because of constant aching in her wounds.
So she waited every day and prayed when the journey would end. Whenever she looked down the road, all she could see was a distant, empty horizon; and a very long way to go alone with that constant pain.
May be, Allah was testing her courage, tolerance and the constant hurt”.
Who do you think won in the end, I often wondered???