After a long gap of
many months, I started reading the last book of Shiva Trilogy, i.e The Oath of
the Vayuputras. Where in a story came about a frog, which went as follows.
‘An unknown scientist
had conducted some experiment on frogs’ long time ago. He dropped a frog in a
pot of boiling water, The Frog immediately jumped out. He then placed a frog in
pot full of cold water; the frog settled down comfortably. The scientist then
began raising the temperature of the water gradually over period of time. The
frog kept adapting to the increasingly warm and then hot water till it finally
died, without any attempt to escape’
As soon as I read
the above extract, it came to my mind about how similar is our situation in
this life!
Like the nature of
the frog, when in our life, we come across something like sudden change, be it
good or bad we react quite seriously and try to go away from that change. Even though
the change may be for our very own good, the intensity of suddenness makes us
to revolt and oppose the change.
Similarly when the
change is slow, even if it is like way too much bad for us in longer run, we constantly keep
on adapting to that badness in our life. Even when the intensity of badness
increases in our life, we try and adapt to it in the faster phase and at one
certain point of time when we come to know that the thing is bad, it would be
way too late and would be at the last stage.
The issue of Fake
notes feels a very appropriate thing to relate into the above context, slowly
and stealthily, small amount of fake currencies came into circulations. We, instead of stopping this bad change by
adopting other mode of transaction like card transactions or by e wallet,
started to move that same currency. Our only concern was that it went away from
us without losing its value before it moves from our hand……
I feel it’s the high
time for us to start knowing the difference between what is good and what is
bad in our life so that we can react and adapt accordingly rather than accept
everything that comes with the flow and creeps very slowly in our life without
giving us the hint of its badness.
