Twists And Turning Points
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Ananya | Jul 22, 2009
Turning points. They are experienced by everyone. These are events that are capable of transforming the entire being of a person: both positively and negatively. They can restructure psyches – or sometimes even shatter them and create new ones in place.
What is the reach of such incidents? Everywhere possible – individually and collectively, physically and psychologically.
The Pearl Harbour incident was a turning point in World War II; it involved America and changed the equation of powers in the war. Miss Ayn Rand introduced communist policies in the American economy which altered the course of John Galt’s life, causing him to ‘stop’ the motor of the world. Turning points. They underscore the significance of the Law of Causality. They alter the course of a person’s life.
How? The tool is emotion. Did I say tool? ‘Weapon’ is a better description. Self realization is only achieved by making humane emotions instrumental. Joy, pity, love, hurt – they never miss the bull’s eye. They squarely hit the junction of the mind and heart: the soul. We all are victims of emotions – and turning points. Life changing experiences also take the form of people. Sometimes they leave after a season, and others, they are there to stay. Either way, they turn around one’s perception, wholly or partially. They add dimensions to the intellect, and vindicate the vision.
What are the lessons they teach you? Unfathomable. How many? Unfathomable again. Consciousness of dreams, ambition, direction, self worth – facets that constitute a major portion of the self are attributed to them. Every smile of pride, contentment, serenity is accompanied by a thought reminiscent of them.
I have my own turning phase – exclusively mine, without any need of a copyright. It made me myself. I gained insight because it happened. I smile when I think of it. Sometimes it wets my eyes. This is what my life turner does to me. It owns me, I own it and I owe it – my life.
Think back about your life turning phase, and the whole era seems as if it were meant to happen, to complete your being, to make it one whole. So natural, as if somewhere deep down you always knew it would occur, though before it took place you could never dream about the form in which it confronted you.
Anybody who senses a chunk missing from life, they only have to look sideways. One of those turns is the one that will flip life around. It will come, because there is no choice, no chance of missing it; it is meant to come. The only alternative is to shut the eyes.
When time is not a parameter, every life is larger than the rest of the world put together. The spell is willingness. Part the curtains, tug at the clouds and look around, see – that is your life changing experience, your turning point!
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Well said, Ananya! Life is really nothing but a series of turning points – and thank God, or whoever, for that. The degree and direction of turn might be different, but turn we must. Some, or rather most of us, prefer to avoid these turning points out of the fear of the unknown, and also manage to avoid the big ones out of the need to feel secure. But when we avoid the big one, and we choose to take the other, smaller turning point, we change too.
The other thing is that it is good that some turning points come straight out of the blue at us, and often such turns turn out to be inexorably cathartic ones, sucking us in to their arms, like an angel or devil, and rendering us anew – for better or worse – at the other end of the turn. If things were not this unpredictable, we would all be living almost identical lives of sedate monotony and secure serenity.
Let us celebrate all the turning points we own, are owned by and owe to!
Keep up the good work!
Pramod.