A puzzling aspect —

To say, it’s a quite ordinary situation that can be experienced by any one in dealing with diurnal chores. As a paradigm, you are all alone in your house and a craving to eat apple creeps into your mind. The soothing thing is, you are already having apples in your fridge. But you are confronted with another situation. Prior to this moment, whenever you felt a desire to eat apple, you were in habit to give command to your  wife to peel the skin off the apple and serve it chopped. And today she is out for marketing and your craving to eat apple is increasing.

Now, you have got two options.  Firstly, you may take a whole apple and bite it with teeth. Second option is, you peel off yourself the skin of apple then chop it and relish. But the hitch in first option is, whenever in past you ate apple by biting with teeth, you never found it as much delicious as it was properly sliced and peeled off. And that properly peeled off and sliced apple had always been served to you by your better half. The chopped apple you found more tasteful.

Now, it seems to you that by giving some efforts you by yourself can peel it off and chopped properly. It’s not a big task! Just it needs to  peel the skin off the apple and cut into pieces. So many times you already watched your wife doing this process. You go to the kitchen, take knife in hand and begin to peel the skin of apple off. At the first given effort, it realizes to you, ” it’s not an easy task!”  In this effort you are cutting deeply thick skin clumsily that contains the juicy pulp of the apple and wasting the apple’s juicy portion.

Now you fully realize, it’s not so easy job but you don’t give up. Now you apply the knife carefully and try to peel off the skin cautiously so the bare thin skin be removed without damaging the pulp of the apple. The first apple has turns up as our “experimental object.” It felt to you, if you apply knife holding firmly in consistency with focusing on apple, you may peel the skin of apple off methodically. Now, with a given concentration, cautiously you are applying the knife on another apple and this time you did it cleanly.

Now, you begin to chop apples. At the first attempt, all the pieces are not cut properly in symmetrical size. It’s happening with first apple in experimentation. This makes you learn some lesson. But the second apple you cut off in proper sized pieces. During this entire process of experimentation, one point flashes into your mind prominently. That is, fineness of working of your better half. You are appreciating her ability of doing everything neatly. It also clears your vision that after giving some efforts, you also can attain the same level of fineness.

How come it happened? Simply, in doing that, your mind kept on instructing you.  Since, you already had watched your wife doing this and mind had already stored that process through sense of sights. Here comes the amazing aspect of our mind. It insists us to do some task persistently, so we could master it. Here only, the positive as well as negative aspects of brain also get revealed to us. This aspect helps us to combat with adverse situation and remove the hurdles and obtain the solution. But again, it’s a puzzle, why a person in a given situation gives up and gets defeated while another person in the same situation register a success story.

Perhaps, our mind impels every one to struggle against and in this, some people are activated entirely and others not. Some are brimmed with confidence by this impelling factor, others let it go. This is also a riddle. If we follow the medical science researches to find the answer, it simply proclaims, we are ever governed by our brain. Then why some register the good success rate and other failure. Here, we may resort to hormonal secretion theory. But, this secretion of hormones too is dictated and controlled by the brain itself. Then what is the riddle behind? A great confusion again infuses our mind in finding the answer to this puzzle.

Perhaps, with so many other answers, one answer may suit it. That is “law of Nature.” Nature selects a few as “master” and others as “servant.” This is Nature’s “law of governance.” If nature allows every one to become successful then how this world will run in consonance? There are innumerable kinds of task in this world which can not be performed wholly by single type of people.  It needs every kind of people to make this world. If there happens to hold “landlord ship” by one person, a number of laborores he also needs to work in his fields.  If all will become the Landlord who will do the tilling of  lands.

The same format is applicable to a “factory” owned by a wealthy man and run by workers. May there be a manager, some supervisors and others as half skilled and fully skilled workers. The Nature’s Law of governance helps in making persons skilled, half skilled according to the demand of the Nature. This is obvious by the example of apple, mentioned earlier. Though the master of the house has learned to peel off and cut the apple into pieces but when his wife is present in the house, she will do all these works and not the man. Here the law of Nature applies.

Now, one may argue, all laws are formulated by men! But why do we forget, Man is also the creation of the Nature.  This world is shaped in the way the nature had the demand of. No doubt, an incessant changing pattern is also visible in this process. A lady matron is supposed to do all chores inside the house and in kitchen. Here, a woman”s husband may be “chef” in some hotel, but he like to eat at the house food cooked by wife. He prefers home’s kitchen. Why? Whilst he was at liberty to fill his stomach daily at the hotel, under the terms and conditions of his job. But he he prefers home cooked food. Isn’t it the another paradigm of “law of Nature!” Penned by– Vinay Pharasi —–