THE RIVER KNOWS ITS WAY

• Will the most neurotic, anxious and stressed person run inside a train?
• When you get into a train you simply forget everything and embrace sleep in your allotted berth, not bothering whether it is taking the right route or whether the driver is well-qualified to run it properly. It matters that you are focussed when you book the ticket and board the train on the correct date and recline in your seat.
• There is a scheme of things set in motion by our parents and society and we are simply caught in this and are taken by the current of it _ going to school, college, getting a job and entering wedlock. None of these things were decided by us, one merely follows the other.
  Most of our life is decided by others and hence why the need for tension?
• I don't mean you should not be interested in any aforesaid acts. But these are already travelled terrain.
• Many of our tense moments result from unnecessary concerns, and we worry about things over which we have no control. Poking our nose in other people's business and giving advice without anybody asking for it are the result of a heightened sense of concern.
  The driver drives the bus and the conductor issues tickets. Imagine the conductor grabbing the steering wheel or the driver doing the job of the conductor while negotiating a curve.
• I know people who worry about the lack of rain or its abundance, about the scorching heat etc. These things matter but you have no power to control these, but are destined to endure them.
• I remember a prayer:"God, give me serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference."
• The boat takes the course carved by a hungry, knowing river. It knows the truth that the river knows its way.