Look Ahead Not, Turn Back Not

‘Every man is the architect of his own fortune’. Whether I abide by this adage or not will be comprehensively described and concisely concluded in what follows.

We halt at various junctures in this long journey called life; sometimes at home, sometimes at school, sometimes at college, sometimes at job and sometimes at the crossroads.

Throughout this peregrination each of us is bound to be affected by the vicissitudes it calls forth. As we proceed we have various rights to exercise, different sorts of responsibilities to bear and duties to execute. We meet different people; we land up in different situations. Change is the only thing that is constant – to the extent that people today will refuse to acknowledge we are the same vestiges of what we were yesterday.

Life is all about making decisions at different junctures - decisions critical, simple and those which vacillate between these extremes. We prepare ourselves for what the future holds based on such decisions. Until the moment arrives we can only consider the possibilities but not control them. For instance, little did Dan Brown, the famous author know that someday he would write books. Fortunately he was irritated by another author who was claimed popular lest he always thought music was his claim to fame.

In a nutshell, life holds a lot of vagaries.

I’d like to take life as it comes. Letting bygones be bygones and avoiding the crystal balls, there’s a certain thrill, an aspect of fun in acting according to the situation. However if the choices were stringent, an obvious choice I would make is to bank on the past I know and not expect anything from the ‘future’ which is both unpredictable and immutable until it actually transforms to the ‘current’.

‘Every man is only a titular architect of his own fortune’.