Keep Running..

I was looking through this great work of Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass". It's a sequel to "Alice in Wonderland". There I noticed the observation of the Red Queen..

"In this place, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place."

It struck to me, how true it is even in today's lifestyle. Seriously, guys, that supposedly is actually a theory (from what I gathered over the Internet.). It's called the "Red Queen Hypothesis", though it is completely a different perspective that it deals with. I'll try and keep it as simple as possible.. I'm certainly not dealing with what's in that article now.

Let's discuss this from our own perspective, most of us being students...

What we usually do is - study, study and more study... More so if you don't live in a hostel :). Why do we study? Simple, we've got a reputation to keep. There were time when we were in school and our grades were out o this universe (Face it, we actually used to get 95% or sometimes even 98% :), our happiest hours :)). Now, this false rep, sets your parents', friends and acquaintances minds in such a way that, any grade that you get less than 90% looks like blasphemy. So, what we try is "keep running". This happens especially when you grow up and are doing your bachelors or something... It's pretty much evident to most of us.

Let's go into the reasons... We face this ruthless competitive world around us. And we simply have gotta keep up with it (sounds like Taare Zameen Par, right? I feel the same too :)). For example, if you stand at a certain place in your class (whichever class, math, guitar or whatever), you gotta work hard to keep that place - you can run but you can't hide - see. So, you keep running, you stay where you are (you start wondering if you are on a treadmill :)). Eventually, what happens is, you are depressed like anyone would be - c'mon guys, your hard work doesn't seem to be paying, right? So, here's my message, don't be disheartened, period. See, look at it this way, if it's taking you so much hard work to stay where you are, what might it take to improve? Just keep that in mind, and work for it. Like Joel Hawes says,

Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your 

arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a 

level with yourself.

So, it makes sense really to keep running to stay there, yes, it certainly is worth the trouble guys. But running faster gets you to be the best, or at least better than yourself. Set aims for yourself, actually, don't let others put words in your mouth. It's as simple as that!

That's all... Keep Running :)

P.S. : Thanks for your response to this blog, guys. :). Means a lot to me, really.