Yes, I am
going to be talking about a real genie, but, before that I want to talk about a
few other things..
Say
something like “God” all of us pray to God. Always asking stuff, thanking for
stuff, cursing for stuff.. it’s a vicious circle..How many of you can actually
stand up and cross your heart and say- that you have someone who prays for you-
obviously, someone who is not your parents! Or family! I frankly have not
prayed for any of my friends- well none of them are sick or dying??!! Be that
as it may, general people don’t pray for other people- yes, I know- I am
generalizing- but for the sake of this article- let me generalize and yes, anomalies
are a way of life.
So I like to
tell this story to my friend, my very dear friend, that- I used to pray a lot-
pray to get someone in my life who gets me or I get- just a friend.. yea.. I don’t
quite remember why I was praying- I remember getting this feeling- that I was
missing out on something big in my life.. do you ever get that feeling?
Anyways,
there I was sinking in that feeling, I was like a teenager, bursting to do
something rebellious, I had no clue of what I was missing in my life, no clue,
was it money? Was it friends? Was it time?? I didn’t know. But I knew – I was
missing out. So I prayed- prayed that I didn’t miss out, and this happens, I got
a “Genie”
Yes, as
real as Christmas I got a freaking Genie! Can you imagine that? Well it took me
a while to imagine it myself! That was it, you know everything they say about
genies are true- those things are mesmerizing. Of course they all have that
dark side too. But, its tantalizing when you start getting what you want, when
you stop missing out on ‘things’. Life as you know- takes complete bloody 180
degree turn- your mind has suddenly become rich, your life is now moving with a
Ferrari Enzo engine, galloping ahead with all that horsepower. Oh God, you are
on a permanent high! Can you imagine being on a permanent high for days and
weeks and months endlessly? Its like a long perfectly drawn out Woodstock festival
– where you have your mix of everything going on perfectly. Perfectly.
Yea.. I
got a genie, and it was the best thing ever to happen to me, and yes, I know it
sounds fictional to you, but unfortunately.. it’s not! The thing about Genies -
people are very naturally drawn to them. They want to be with the Genie, get
their attention, give their attention- they are always trying to please the
genie- its absolutely amazing to see people drawn to them and the genie loves
everyone. He wants to give everyone a fair chance, and he does. He wants to
please everyone- yea- you should be worth pleasing- that’s the genies only
condition!
So coming
to the point, what do you do next? Do you be greedy and keep the genie all to yourself?
Come on, people do get greedy! That’s why people work endlessly, buy endlessly,
it’s the way of life. So are you going to wise enough to let your genie go- go
find another lost soul to heal? When is the ok time to do it? How do you measure
the amount of time or wealth you need before which you let your genie go? How much
is enough? Or when is it going to be enough?
Think back
5 years, if you are older, think back 10 yrs. Think about the things you wished
for then. Try to recollect how you imagined your life 5yrs later. Write it
down. Come back to the present- how many of those line items have crossed of
the list? Point here is, while there are always those dreams which never
materialize, there is still a lot many which have come to being, but it didn’t really
matter so much because other realities of life have caught up with you. Like perhaps
you may have wished for more money – you got it- but life in general, got
expensive- nullifying the fact that you got more money. It then comes down to this- you either evolve
your wishes along with time or you make peace with ‘you got what you asked for’
and in either case you move on.
So, believe
it or not- I spent the last few weeks asking when people, if they got a genie when
do you think it would be ok to let your genie go? Everyone had an answer- a
certain slab- after which they wouldn’t mind giving it up. Which I have to say,
I am sooo cynical- I do not believe a word any them said! If I have to put a
fig to it- my earlier 5 yr analysis- by that theory- majority of us fall in the
category of evolving our requests with time. And if you fall in that category-
what is it to say that after you get your wish, you will not have another one after
that? And another after that?
So in
reality I am still trying to figure this out. It is a fact that it is genie,
they are programmed to move on and forget about you once they move on. Will that
be ok, for you to not have genie who is your friend, who has become an irrevocable
part of your life, where you have come to respect each other. Be understanding
of the genies true reality and let it move on?
My genie
prays for me, without my asking- who does that?
