Masters of the Universe

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Written by: Taimoor Masroor (on March 03, 2008 - 10:45 PM)

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Life goes on, time doesn’t stay for anyone you know. We may wish, we may even want for things to remain the same or find it difficult to evolve out of a state of mind but we eventually need to move on. For things aren’t always constant and everything around us doesn’t ever remain the same. “Times change, people change” and you can pretend to be the same person you always were but you will be doing yourself a great favor by realizing its not so. We however, prefer the fantasy; prefer the ideal to keep things the way they are. A man is a creature of habit they say and that is what we all strive for. We need a routine, we need a schedule, we need a plan, and everything around us has become structured in a way that it requires us to keep things in order. It comes as no surprise that given the time available to us for forming a course, we end up chasing the same bus. We are all following the same band wagon only we do it in cults and make ourselves feel like we are different, that we stand out from the rest. Fact is, we don’t. You are just like me and me, I am just like you. We are all driven by the same force, at the end of the day we both want the same thing. I may be better than you, I may be willing to make some compromises and that may take me places where you may never reach but that still doesn’t change the fact that I am the same as you.

“A mind is a terrible thing to waste”, a mind really is an incredibly terrible thing to waste. The power the human mind possesses is far more than we believe we can comprehend. The mind would always work, it would always want to govern, it is made to do that and when it takes control who knows where it takes us. It is all our choice though, we control who we are. It is entirely our decision to let the body dictate the mind that it is tired and that it would rather be left alone to atrophy or we can let our will take charge of the decisions our mind reaches. A strong will is forged with a strength greater than steel, a strong will is what differentiates the winners from the losers in the otherwise carnival of rat-race and parade of self acclaimed individuals.

We can wish, pray or look for someone to pull us up, but that is worth nothing. We can fantasize about the seductive maiden named luck but fantasies do only one thing for us; they serve the purpose of keeping us happy, they let us imagine an alternate reality but reality doesn’t change till we actually go ahead and do something about it.

And so I dream for my world to change, I wish for a lucky break
But nothing seems to come my way, and I blame you my wretched fate

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