Triumph Of The Spirit

Life is funny. Just when you think the grass is not so green after all nor the light as bright as it should be, life hits back at you with funnily wierd moments.

One such moment happened with the rescue of the two-year-old kid Vandana who was rescued by an army team from a 45 feet deep pit. A two year old kid trapped in sand and gravel till her shoulders survives, if this is not triumph of the human spirit, there is nothing else that can classify to be a heroic moment for life.

Ofcourse the same thing keeps happening in our country. Just a couple of years back another kid was rescued, a year earlier one kid perished. These are ofcourse just the cases that get highlighted but there are so many more cases which go unreported and nothing is ever done to bring any change to the lives of our common man. Its a harsh reality of our country and its as real as those flashy figures thrown at our face by the finance ministry about our GDP growth or a forbes rich peoples list having Indian citizens. There is a grave divide. Most of us are fortunate to be on this other side but if we turn a blind eye, we might soon be back to the other side. This post is not about the reasons why no action is taken against the guilty but its about the human spirit.

Of course everyone played their part well, the technical advisers, the rescue teams and the army and the doctors but what would have been their worth if the spirit died? The kids spirit not only kept her alive but the rescue men as well. Its not a ordinary thing to happen. Its such an occult like phenomenon. We just ned to open our eyes and see the reality. When someone like Lance Armstrong beat cancer and came back to win the Tour De France it was considered such a dicey thing and then to justify that the doping controversy which will sadly never leave him lone because we do not belive in the triumph of the human spirit anymore. That triumph can work more than any miracle. We are the miracle and we are the gods. Each one of us is a god. The best gift we can give ourselves is to realise our spirits and then walk on our paths with that spirit. Ofcourse some will loose and some will win but the end result would never matter in the broader sense. Just the walk is such a high that the failure or the sucess would be a by product which will not be of much significance.

One thing i value the most is the spirit. Its triumph in failure or victory. The end result never really matters, just the effort of the spirit. That is the only thing heroic in man and worth living for. Thats perhaps a subset of my Ayn Rand’ism but thats how i see life and i don’t care if its the right way or the wrong way.