But just think about it. The earliest day of my life that I can remember was different from the current one. Of course, it was. I was a kid then, and now I’m a senior citizen and a parent to an adult person. But then, it was the same as it is now. I wake up in the morning, eat, bathe, go to school, then college, university, and eventually to the office. And now, I’m in the Fowler bed. The differences aren’t marked by actual differences; they’re marked by the almighty or whoever decided that tomorrow I would be older than today, and then the others who said after so many days from my birth, I should be at a place like school, college, and so on.
Pau Arenós, a Spanish journalist, wrote in his book “Las Pequeñas Alegrías” (the little joys) that he used to get pulled up by his mother for always living in the future! He writes, “No sé vivir el momento presente, sino el siguiente.” Roughly translated, it means, “I don’t know how to live in the present moment, as I live in the next (future).” Of course, it’s not a literal translation, but that’s what it means.
We all know it, don’t we? I didn’t need to quote him to prove that we think alike! But I did so because Anirban (Chattopadhyay) da gave it to me for reading while he came to visit.
Now that all the references are in place and the authenticity of the content has been verified, let me say what I set out to. As I was saying, the only thing that could truly mark a difference would be non-compliance! For example, if you drop out of a set course, like not going to college.
If you are looking for its veracity check out Trump’s way of doing stuff. I mean everything was cool. The economy was coming round and all of a sudden this man takes a contrarian turn, decides to raise tariff to bring the US boys home! That changed the day for all of us. May be differently to different person. But you see we didn’t have a hand in changing our daily experience. He did it for us! If it were not for him we would still be quite foggy about say what was different this day in January in such and such year.
Or, take for example, losing of jobs of thousands of teachers in one stroke! We didn’t do it. Yet our days, if they are different, have been so because someone else decided to screw our lives!
Therein lies the point. You see, you don’t change your day. You go to sleep, you wake up, you eat and go to the loo, you earn, you lose your job … hold on a second! No you don’t lose a job, they take it away from you thereby breaking the monotony of your life.
Are you foxed by reading it? Don’t. I wouldn’t have known this if on the 20th of February someone else decided to rule that I should fall and break my back! If it’s yet a haze ask the Didi or the Dada, he would explain everything to you. But don’t ever try to break the monotony yourself for yourself. It doesn’t work. Life has a different understanding of “different”. Barriers look small but they decide whether you will cross it.
