Run Rabbit Run

Growing up is the process of giving up things that you loved to do when you were a kid. As you keep growing up you just give up on those things, one by one. It's not easy growing up. You are not old enough to make a choice of the kind of life that you want to lead and you are not young enough to just stand there and let everything happen in front of you against your wishes.

Sometimes I think that the worst thing that someone can demand from you, is for you to "Grow Up". You would ve heard this retort so many times without actually ever bothering about how bad a retort it actually is. "Grow Up" means that you are being asked to let go of one more habit of your's that actually lets you be a kid, an innocent kid who does nt know about the complexities of a grown up world around him. I wonder sometimes why would anyone want anyone else to grow up. Is it because they themselves have grown old and are feeling miserable about it ?

All your life you will always wish that you could rewind the time and go back into the past to a time when you were young and happy and everything was so good and lovely. But the thing that you never realize is that even if by some miracle you did end up there, you would want the same wish again. The point that one doesn't understand is that one has to be content with what one has and one must also, learn to live in the present.

What most people call a "Rat Race" I like to call it as a "Rabbit Race", not because I like rabbits, but beacause I hate rats. You can see everyone who loves you and wants you to succeed in life shouting out like an ardent fan of your's, "Run Rabbit Run.....dig that hole, forget the sun.....And when at last the work is done, don't sit down, it's time to dig another one". As soon as you learn to walk, you are asked to RUN. At the end, you find that all your life, all you have ever done was to keep running, leaving all the things that you wanted to do as a kid, all your dreams behind.

The race never ends. It just goes on and on and on. People keep joining the race all the time and similarly others keep going out of it. Others just keep running without knowing what are they running for. This all makes no sense at all, but still all of us keep doing it, because if you do not run, that means you are stagnated at one place and no one today can tolerate even a second of stagnation.

Growing up can be tough. You want to do so many things and you seem to have so little time. You have so many dreams but you can't sleep long enough. You have so many friends but you always want a best friend. You have so much to learn but you still end up going to school. You have so many choices to make but none of them is decided by you.

Happiness is a relative term. When you are happy you would want everyone around you to be happy too. That's easier said than done. People, grown-up people, have so many complications in their lives that they hardly remember when to live their life. It seems that they are living their lives for someone else. When you live your life for yourself, you ll understand how easy it is to be happy.

Ever seen children playing around in a park. The last thing on their mind is what will others think about me. I would term that as absolute happiness. It's when you have no care in the world, no worries about anyone else in the world, when you live life for yourself and no one else. All I would like to wish is that we all could stay kids for all our lives, that we never become Rabbits, that we stay happy forever, that we never GROW-UP.