"Extra"
Some days
back when I was placing an order for Pizza, they told me that an offer is going
on and I’ll be getting two Pizzas instead of one for the same price. Awe! What a
happy thing to get something extra without much effort.
Who doesn’t
like to a little bit of something extra in life? An extra off day, extra
discount, extra chocolates, or just an extra hour of sleep. Anything much more
than the usual are happy news for all of us.
Then
why not an extra effort to listen, to talk, to care, to sympathize, to empathize,
to be kind or just to be good? The world definitely needs all this. We keep hearing
stories about people ending up their life. Students, teenagers, celebrities,
successful people, mothers, wives, entrepreneurs, and who not. Here in my
locality, in the last one year more than five entrepreneurs committed suicide
when they started seeing a downfall in their business. Three teenagers took
their own life because they couldn’t handle the exam pressure. And recently a
celebrity too. Why?
Is that
because when the world is so advanced we don’t have a solution for certain
problems? Or quitting is much easier than finding out solutions? Every nook and
corner we got professionals to help us, we got thousands of friends in our network
just a buzz away, hundreds of friends in our Whatsapp just a “Hey” away, close
knit ones in our groups and family just around us. We share and tag and check
in every small detail that’s happening in our life. When we eat out, we check
in that. When we buy a new dress, a selfie is mandatory. When we are bored,
even that is declared to the world. Then when hesitate when we really need
help. Why withdraw when we are in need of that extra love in life?
We living beings need constant assurance from our loved ones that we are loved, cared and
looked after. We need that extra hug at times. We need to have that extra time
with someone we are comfortable with at some point of our life. I believe this
world and the people around us are willing to give us that, if and only if we
reach out. Only if we take that extra step to talk about our inner turmoil.
No one
is free of problems. But there’s always a solution for that, but that’s not
giving up.
Reach out.
That stranger who’s sitting next to you in the metro may have that extra bit of
goodness, smile, care and ears to listen to you and give you comfort when you
seriously need it.
And to that stranger, maybe you can offer the extra comfort he/she needs. Be ready to give out and reach out when in need.
