Luck by Chance

So much arrogance!

 

I see people preen into their power, as if they owned every bit of what they are. Old wealth and position are often the worst. Privilege turns into a right; dissent sparks righteousness; power becomes a press drill; wealth is mistaken for intellect.

 

People forget they are humans - a bundle of gorgeous contradictions, always at the brink of errors, growing out of contradictions, alive inside abstractions, beyond simplistic judgements.

 

How can any man or woman walk this earth, be born into its beguiling aesthetics and lesson-worthy stumbles, its company of the wise, its examples of grace, and still arrogate themselves the illusion of knowing-it-all?

 

Decades into my life, I still sit open-mouthed at stories of unbridled resilience, and unrestrained joy; I still stand corrected - and I still let myself be a sieve through which the world flows and leaves traces of its infinite grace.

 

All  possibilities of life are on the table if only we let them be. The richness comes not from the dullness of veracities, but the magical world of infinite mistakes. When we swing our focus away from ourselves, we find a world full of possibilities - and we give ourselves the chance of becoming the flawed beautiful person we are capable of being.

 

If you liked this poem, consider listening to these other poems on how life is nothing by destiny - 

• Sometimes We Remember So Hard
• Waiting for My Flight For Chennai at the Calcutta Airport
• I Have Often Thought About God

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The details of the music used in this episode are as follows -

Lockdown by Sascha Ende

Link: https://filmmusic.io/en/song/Lockdown

Licence:  https://filmmusic.io/standard-license