THE SIXTH SENSE
So on this faithful evening I got a distress call from my elder sister asking me to come tend to her since she was slightly under the weather. As usual I was glad to help, family meant the world to me. So I quickly locked up at the office while my mind deliberated on the fastest means to get home. Today like many other days, I was indecisive and this might have cost me more than I anticipated.
I had finally decided after much back and forth to take the bus which is about the slowest method in an urgent situation. Hmm!what was I even thinking? Oh well I was already in it so there was no room for the pity party. I decided to let my mind wonder on the long drive home.
Just when I thought I had finally settled perfectly into my comfort fantasy the worst happened. The bus driver decided to stop and call passengers to fill his half empty bus. What in the world had I done? I had an emergency to attend to and I was here waiting for a bus to get filled?
While I fumed over the current situation a taxi pulled over and had two free spaces. This had to be my gift from God I thought but why wasn’t I out of the bus yet? I simply hate my sense of judgement sometimes. I mean, this was a clear cut case which needed no deliberation what so ever but no! my default setting was at it again. Okay, should I, should I not?…. And as I allowed my mind to play its usual games the taxi got full and zoomed off. It felt like the rapture…what just happened…oh my world… I dashed my only hope of getting home as early as I had planned. Well, now I can’t complain it was solely my fault.
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Anyways, I decided to shake it off after all its no use crying over spilled milk. Our bus finally got full and we continued our endless journey. To my greatest surprise, only a few meters away I saw the taxi I would have loved to join packed at the side of the road with its bonnet open and passengers shouting at the driver from all angles. You know I would like to think I am not a bad person but I couldn’t help a giggle. And then I thought to myself, it is true that everything happens for a reason.
Did you know that stopping to catch a breath doesn’t mean you get to lose the race?
In a marathon race, thousands of people sign up. Some fall by the way, others take little breaks to catch a breath, and although they do not get to finish first they reach the finish line.
Okay, that said, do you know you can learn a lot from your confused moments more than you ever realized?
Each day, life decides to arrange a sequence of experiences to put our mind in the perfect place for an awareness that might otherwise simply pass by in the afternoon breeze.
Indecisiveness in its actual sense is not a good thing but one cannot underestimate the benefits of weighing options before jumping into conclusion. Sometimes, the delays we have when trying to make a decision is as a result of the fact that our minds are aligned with our ultimate goals and so it naturally understands the right steps we ought to take at every given point in time. Some may call it “body tell”, others may call it ‘‘the sixth sense’’, but the fact remains that all of these things work together for our good.
