By Anuj Gupta - MBA'22 (FMS, Delhi)
My mind still has a blurry remembrance of 8 years old me, for whom untying the knot of shoelaces was the most challenging task. Being assured that dealing with those knots is not my cup of tea, I replaced my shoes with a new pair of lace-less shoes. A little boy, proud over his achievement. A victory for him. A big problem solved. Problem solved? Really?
With time I got bored with those lace-less ones and wanted the knots back. Again a new problem. So, don’t you think replaced is the right word? PROBLEM REPLACED! We all are now used to it. Replacement feels like home to us and solution, an unfamiliar foreign world. Replacement is easy. The solution seems to be troublesome. Untying a knot is laborious. But not dealing with it is effortless. You might have been an expert in tying and untying the knot in your childhood. But you might be losing your calm over learning the English alphabets a few years back. If not alphabets, then? Cycling? No? Okay! I got it! I got it! Green Veggies? Right? No matter who we are. We all are trudging our path with our own set of problems. Our own set of worries. Our own set of KNOTS. And we all abhor these Knots. We don’t know how to untie them and feel like stuck and drowning day by day. And to save ourselves from drowning, what we do? Run! We tend to ignore and postpone them to a future date. But till when? The more you will ignore the tighter these knots would get. And the more you will postpone the more ghostly they will become. Today or never! Today is the time to unfasten your caged soul. Does mic attract you more than computers but you lack the courage to take the starting step? Go for it. This is your KNOT that needs to be untied. Do You feel completely Blank? Get out of that depression. This is your Knot. And once you have gathered your nerve, these tight KNOTS will feel very loose and easy to undo. Most problems that come in our way are less troublesome than they seem to be on their first appearance. But once you learn how to tackle them, they will be the easy knots for you. THE LOOSE KNOTS! So, free yourself from these loose knots!