A mighty question but the common denominator is same.. Pain.
I dont believe there is anyone in this world who is not familiar with Pain. We all have our share of distress and heartaches. Different forms of pain meet us at every turning point of our life and not one single person is devoid of it. How strange, there are people who don't believe in love, and according to them, never find love. But there is not a single person i can find who has not found pain. Love and pain to me goes hand in hand. Where there is love there is pain and where there is pain, there is passion.
A mother goes through labor pain to give birth, a life created out of pain. Our first step usually makes us fall down, once again we experience pain as we take our first step. At every point of our life it finds us, yet we take pain as if its new, each time we meet it. Why Me? a big question comes in our mind when ever we meet the mighty pain.
Some say Pain makes me strong, some become cynic and some devour in their pain as misery. Funny the same emotions we show when we are in love. When in love, the world is beautiful and we feel on top of the world, when loves jilts us we become cynic and say there is no such emotion as love, some choose to stay in love and be miserable. How can these two emotions bring out the same emotions in us?
To me pain is the under current which flows like blood in my body and love is the air we breathe in to be alive. The choice is ours how we look at pain.
In events industry, there are no work timings. I remember after a full night setup, going to sleep for 2 hours and rushing back for rehearsals and conducting a full day event and at times taking a flight same evening to next city for once again night setup and next day event. It is very stressful and not everyone's piece of cake. But my team and i used to work like this for days together. The only thing which made us effectively very good event managers was our discipline and passion for our work. I never heard any team member cribbing about lack of sleep or lack of concentration while running the show. The award was a good show done and getting ready for the next one.
In show business we all say this famous line " the show must go on", and i have seen this in literal sense. We were in Australia , running a show and in the middle of the show my colleague got a sms from his home that his favourite aunt has expired. I could see the pain in his eyes when he read the message, and his voice had a quiver when he spoke with me on headset. But he knew as it was just the two of us running the show and being abroad meant less managers with us, he took 2 minutes break to calm himself down and was back in his position before his que to run the show. That was the day i realised that once we accept pain as part of our life, our life goes on.... just like the show must go on.
There are times when i still think of my mother. I moved from my city, left my work, made my husband leave the job he loved to get another one and moved to New Delhi, when we knew my mother who was suffering from cancer had very few months to live. Unfortunately i did not have more than 75 days with her. Life is such. My mom was my inspiration for Soul Studio and it was her words which resonate in my ears till date. She believed in the vision of Soul Studio and my dream to create a platform for spiritual growth and to help people overcome their fears, addictions and transforming mindsets.
My pain is what losing my mom, or is it moving to this city, or is it leaving my work which i loved? I have not been able to find answer to any of my questions other than the opportunity which i have now of building Soul Studio, which could not have happened if i was still in my work. Therefore one good thing came out of the whole pain i have gone through.
There is always a silver lining which we choose not to see. Regrets is what most of us have in life as we never had the courage or discipline to see through a task or chase a dream. There are always moments when we feel like turning the clock and going back in time to change some things. Time never stops, we cannot go back in time but we can learn from our pain the simple truth that life is meant to be lived and instead of having regrets in life, let there be discipline which keeps us focussed on our goals and achievements.
As pain is part of our DNA, so is success . With both hand in hand there is no obstacle which one cannot overcome.
Show must go on is all i can say.
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