A long way I have come

 A long way I have come????


I was walking back home.On the way is a bus stop .People wait for hours and the bus comes full of passengers....students hanging at the edge onto the last step.....
I was there yesterday traveling in Mumbai as a Student and in Hubli to the Hospital I worked in for initial years as Anaesthesiologist.
Yesterday I was at the Gateway of India just looking at The Taj Hotel across the road and wondering how it's lobby looked and how was it in The Coffee Shop.
Yesterday, I was at Peddar Road admiring the Designer Fashions displayed in the swanky Boutiques across the road.
I was flipping across the pages of a magazine gazing at the beautiful locales across the world.
Today,I have crossed the road to walk into there......be a part and experience them......
I have come so far,Have I?????
Today I am there and have that .....All those I just watched,gazed and admired across the other end.
Have I arrived the????Does this make me Happy????
What is Success ????
Success,Achievement and Happiness are very relative.
Success is defined and graded on comparison.So is Achievement.
If I compare myself to another who has more qualifications, more money,more power.....I haven't come any far......
If I compare with someone lesser privileged.....that's looked down and vain.
Then ,what makes me Happy.
Standing across the road,I thought crossing and moving to the other side would make me more Happy.
I crossed the road,but I didn't make nor did I allow it to make a part of my world....
Instead,I found happiness in eating my Simple Lunch  served on a Plate.....
I had eaten it in a Dabba all those many years.
I found my home more beautiful than those locales I used to gaze in the magazine .
I found my Friends and Family more entertaining and relaxing than The Taj Coffee Shop.
I lost interest in the Designer Things I would watch from the windows outside.
Life is enjoyed more in it's simplicity.....in the company of people who accept as you are rather than Who you are.
I realised value of life only after coming from that side of road to the other end.
Only myself knows how far have I come.....as the other person has neither seen nor been in my journey....
Living and loving the moment am living at present ..is happiness and brings me joy.
Appreciating myself for crossing that path over.....from yesterday to today.....
Babe,you've come so far and long......

Dr Tripti Milind Galgali
Hubli.

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