Stand by Me !!

After a tiring day at work, I put my son to sleep, when clock ticks 2am, I open the refrigerator to sip some coke for the “ME” time. And the marketing campaign of coca cola writes on the bottle – When words fail, #SayItWithCoke “STAND BY ME”

I am just amused by the different meanings of this phrase – stand by me.

1.       Asking someone to be right beside me – stand BY ME

2.       Someone who could have been just supported by me – STAND by me

3.       I could have been totally forgotten by someone – STANDBY me

OMG! such variance in all meanings. This clearly indicates the freedom we have while taking out the inference from anything in life. The pizza has same ingredients, but still, we tend to choose our own slice. We all know that all slices taste same but still we feel to excel the right to choose our own slice.

Obviously, one may have that extra piece of olive, or another may look bursting out with slightly two more bites of cheese, etc. etc. But, we know that the bakers man had baked the pizza making it all in right proportions for each piece.

Likewise, maybe GOD has destined us to certain individual roles, goals, achievements, joys, sorrows. And we tend to keep looking at others thinking what did we do right or wrong to have been at that place. May be, we were granted the best of lives virtues and we bombed big time by choosing some non-destined dignitaries. Or, maybe we just turned lucky by hitting a surprise jackpot which was lying undiscovered to be touched by someone sport enough to play with life.

Life is a journey to some, destination to a few and a curse to some others. But, we tend to judge people on their perceptions of life without even getting to understand their real reasons to judge their lives that way. A person may feel life to be cursed because she may have memories of some major drawbacks, struggles, failures which has been on her mind enough to not let her realize the other mere moments which may have been slightly joyous too. Who should be blamed for this? Clearly, the girl herself. NO! Do we know anyone around us who wilfully chooses to be unhappy with life? Absolutely no! So, how do we easily judge and move on. Ideally, we must hold on and STAND BY that girl to make her feel that she is not alone in the journey. Howsoever, failed she may be feeling, but this very moment is certainly a flash of fresh air which she can happily breath. This may not change her past memories, but certainly will add a small fragment of pleasure to her life, bringing down the level of curse she was feeling all through.

Similarly, we may come across someone who would be stuck in the moment assuming she has arrived her destination and life could be put on STAND-BY. We could be super busy in crafting the way to our own life journeys, but still, I feel it will be worth to take a short break and look around to find such a person. Anyone who may be wearing a wide smile, dressed to kill, hiding her wrinkles in layers of makeup could be the one stuck in their lives and may just restart living again by a simple push. Why can’t we be that push for her? What does it take to be that push? May be a precious single moment from our own life. But, I think it will be worth spending as that will give a new meaning to our own journey altogether. We have heard so many times, that a person who smiles more is more likely depressed and this smile may be her way to distract us from diving deep into the sorrows in her eyes. So, STAND BY side of someone who smiles unnecessarily at your nonsense jokes, and you would just break the barriers and give her that push to restart, push to discard all her buried sorrows through tears or words and let her eyes see the clear blue sky – yet again.

Yes! How can we forget the girl who we aspire to be? A girl who lives in every moment, traversing through the life with zeal to live it all. What we could do her is – just let her be. Let her journey to keep flowing. Do not burden her with the responsibilities to STAND me. We must inspire from her strengths and refrain from becoming a barrier to her journey of life. However, if she chooses to take me along, why not? A journey can certainly be more beautiful with an equally lively partner and disastrously killing with a StandByme partner. So, be wise. Choose wise.

GOD certainly bestows his best destinies to all of us and it all depends on our choices on what we live with and what we die for.

Life is good, make the best of it!