SURPRISE

Surprise!

The word which keeps all of alive and vibrant for the quest of life.  Surprise can be of both types. Happy and the sad ones. 

The moment a friend yells “Surprise” on your b'day and conducts an unannounced party.

The moment your parents yells “Surprise”, before presenting your dream bike or cell phone.

The moment someone you love calls when you feel all alone.

The moment you feel that someone is happy because of you.

Surprise is just not throwing a party, arranging a trekking trip, presenting your friend the most expensive gift you could afford or spending all your money for someone. Surprise is actually when you do the unexpected. When you spend your valuable time, when you repay your gratitude, when you don’t hurt a caring heart, when you really understand that you are a person to be loved.

I know these type of surprises cannot be experienced by all of us. Our best friend would have forgot our B’day, your spouse may forget your star sign, your relative may forget to invite you for a function, few people won’t understand us, our love and care may not be accepted and understood the way it should, there would be a wrong impression upon you and you would have nothing to do about it, in short, I am speaking about the negative surprise. 

And surprises are not meant only for others. The best would be to surprise “you”. When you go for an extra round in jogging, when you change the settings of your room once in a month, when you keep a promise, when you can control yourself, when you can feel free to be yourself, when you cultivate a good habit, when you appreciate others, when you smell the fragrance of the soul.

In that case let us be the catalyst of surprise and magical moments. Let us call a friend at midnight on his bday. Let us phone our loved ones at odd times just to say “I Love You”. Let us give a shoulder to a person who desperately needs to pour out, Let us arrange for a local shower party to our engaged friends.  Let us surprise our parents by living our life to the fullest and by sharing our thoughts with them.  Let us not create a wrong impression about a guy who we don’t know about.

As they say, “Where there is a will, there is a way”. Life is full of surprises, you never know what is gonna happen the next moment, so let us tell all our loved ones that we love them without any ego. Let us forgive ourselves and others. Spoiling your future just because your past was bad is never wise. 

A recent surprise in my life, she was a woman in her late twenties. Somehow she happened to read my 

"Great Things For Free”. She came along with her husband for the Ramanujam’s  125^th birthday celebrations. She introduced herself and she couldn't believe I am Aravind.

“I thought the author would be someone forty plus” She said.

I smiled uneasily.

“Thanks a lot for writing such a book. I am a breast cancer patient and my husband and children love me the same as they did before. But I mistook their care for pity. I thought that they are caring me just because of my disease and they would be happier if I die soon. I never accepted the fact that someone would love a cancer patient. I considered myself a burden. But after reading about Varshitha and Adithya marriage, I understood that my family really loved me. My daughter gave me a card painted by her which had your cancer message. I felt alive again. Now I am fighting back. I will be back as a good mother, a good teacher and a good wife. We all love you”.

I had my Sunday lunch with their family.

I dint do anything great. I wrote a book to kill my time and to understand my life. In the end, it proved worthy. I am no William Shakespeare just an immature writer but life surprised me.

This is what makes life much more merrier.

Simple things. As we mature in our life, we slowly would understand that those simple things we did were actually the moments “we lived”.

Just don’t await for your surprise, Create one.