My brother said that he has different views about the aha moments, and that he did not have any Aha! moments. I wonder, is it possible? We keep learning all throughout our lives. And there are people, events, accidents, situations and what not, which become the medium to our learning. But probably this happens so smooth, we do not realize. I would not say that it is all expected. If the life be predictable... It is not! And so I strongly believe that there are definitely moments in our lives when we smile to ourselves. When we discover something unexpected and understand life an inch more. Probably, then that becomes so much part of us, that we do not find it easy putting as a writing piece.
Look for the child within!!
I agree that there are 'aha moments' in life, in fact you are right, since the life is so unpredictable, every next moment is an 'aha moment' just that the degree of 'aha' is variable. Why most of the time people do not realize such moments is because they are too busy to sit just after the 'aha moment' and make a note of it. Many people have taken for granted the unpredictable and teaching nature of life, that whenever any 'aha moment' occurs, they feel it is a part of life - lets move on!
ReplyDeleteTinku, an 8 year old kid starts a floor cleaning job on a railway platform. Every time a train honks, he stops his work rushes to see the train coming. He is awed by the length of the train. He counts the number of boogies. He remembers how many people jumped how many people climbed. The whole day, for any train he does the same. He counts the number of trains he saw today, and then tomorrow.
Then comes his 12th birthday. Suddenly the train honks, he leaves the broom to rush to the train, but then stops and think something. Then he sits back and start cleaning the floor again. He has to finish two more platforms before he can get his today's food. But he knows that a train has come. He bends a little, look at the train, but his hands are moving like a pendulum and 'cleaning the floor'.
On the day when Tinku's twin sister Tinki, back at the village celebrates her 15th birthday, the train honks again. But our hero no more leaves the broom, he no more rushes to count the number of boogies. He no longer even sees that a train has come and gone - a few new hundred people have jumped out of the train and a few new hundred climbed up the train. Our hero has to finish his work quickly and go to the book shop and get 10 new books for the shops at the platform. He has to deliver vegetables to the roadside restaurant, he has to get a box of cigarette and tobacco for the officer in white. He no longer knows how many train came today!
These trains are the unpredictable moments in life (the pun is not deliberate, still thanks to Mamta madam).
As the life gets busier and more complicated, we tend to 'not spend time' for registering the 'aha moment'. And that is when we sometime mistakenly utter, "oh I do not have any Aha! moments".
And,it is not just a moment, at times the whole experience becomes the aha! experience. An experience or incident we never forget, an incident which teaches us big, an incident we like to share with people with great excitement.
ReplyDeleteEvery time i come across a good blog, I have a "aha" moment.
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