Just a day ago surfing the net I came across the painting of MONALISA. Quite some piece of art. I started digging more about it and its painter. Leonardo Di-Vinci. What an art. Worth appreciable. I kept wondering for a long time and few things caught my mind. After going through many pages, I noticed that the entire net is stuffed and loaded with its replicas. Its been copied and duplicated almost everywhere and on everything. Weird. It made me wonder. But there was hardly any other Leonardo. He has not been cloned yet. One and only in his class. Similarly life is like that. A painting is always a painters choice. Like there are lot of MONALISAS but cannot be two Leonardo da-Vinci. Be a painting or a painter is always in your hand. A painting is more renowned beautiful and ecstatic where as the painter are the naive people with less recognition and fame. A painting is always the consequence of a painters choice, he chooses the stokes colours and the style theme with his brush. He is the choice maker. He is the one who imagines and then create it. Still its us who want to be the painting and get hung in front of the public in the hall of fame. We get happy when people appreciate us, irrespective to the feeling that we are actually being priced. So why not try be the architect of the new social conscience.
Your loved one, your society, religion, community, and your company everyone wants to play a role of a painter in your life. But there is no point in placing your life in someone else’s hand and then cribbing crying and sobbing that you are not happy with your life. So better be assertive and decide it on yourself, and even if u choose to be the painting, remember that the canvas of your life cannot be used as experimentations by others. Our early years are like that white canvas. With colours filling in as we grow to our saneness. With countless colours and infinity strokes a picture starts blooming. Rarely the transformation of a child to an adult happens without tears. Its painful for everyone involved. If you succeed in becoming an adult you cry for leaving the child behind. And if u fail to become one you cry again. So either way u cry. But these are life’s way to evolving a new you. Every person u come across with has his own colour and stroke on u. Its now on you how u place it. Either tearfully become a painter or tearfully remain a painting. The world that cries when u begin will stop crying once when u start producing result.
Lord Mahavira said- “live and let live”. Christ said “love thy neighbour’s like you love thyself”. Even such messiahs have asked you to put yourself first and then the rest of the world. But a choice maker merely put self respect first before he attempts to respect others. You have only one life to live. Even if you are reborn, you will not be born as you. So don’t miss any chances, don’t miss yourself in you. Do whatever u feel like with your brush and strokes or be another MONALISA and get hung on a wall.
It is better to earn a name and live a good life than to earn a fame and live a bad life.
Dare to be yourself