It was evening time, I was coming back home from office. Being Friday, I was on my bike. Suddenly I spotted a stray dog on the street, waiting for a vehicle to follow. While biking is fun, being followed by a stray dog is far from it. Speeding up to avoid any attack was my reflex action, more driven by animal instinct.
But the dog had his own game plan, he started following me, barking and running as if it was the end of the world. While with a modern day bike you can always accelerate enough, the heart probably didn't believe in that, at least at that moment. With sudden increase in the speed, and the heart rate, I was able to maneuver safely.
Once I was back home I started wondering what is it that the dog was trying to achieve? And this reminded me of a story -
A farmer had a dog that used to sit by the roadside waiting for vehicles to come around. As soon as one came he would run down the road, barking and trying to overtake it. One day a neighbor asked the farmer “Do you think your dog is ever going to catch a car?” The farmer replied, “That is not what bothers me. What bothers me is what he would do if he ever caught one.”
That was the moment of truth, so to speak.
Many people in life behave like that dog who is pursuing meaningless goals.
With eyes closed, I suddenly became aware that I was alive and had some purpose for being so.
Am I here to spend the life following some goals that may not mean much in the long run. Or for that matter may not mean ANYTHING. And when I live LIFE in this manner am I not forgetting the MIRACLE of it.
Dear Reader, how about you ? Are you pursuing "Empty" goals ?
