Brick a brac

All of us have a personalized things-to-do-in-my-lifetime list but, in the run up to achieving it all, we get oblivious to the necessary lessons we learn along the way. In the end, we have a bad case of a wool ball entangled in multiple knots every few inches of the way.

If one were to take every major part of their lives as bricks and use it significantly, we might be able to make it less confusing. We can take career as one brick, family as another, relationship as a third, friends as a fourth and continue in that direction. Most of us would like to start with our family as the base, add relationships on top, followed by career etc. In the end, because we are so fully engrossed in making each brick work for us, we find we have built a wall of the same around us and as a result can hardly move. It is suffocating and not the best place to be.

Instead if we were to take the same bricks and use an alternative approach, it would garner different results. We can take the first brick, a second, a third and this time instead of putting them on top of each other, we use each to weave a path for ourselves. So we use family as a stepping stone and then lay the next brick to step on. This way we proceed only forward and when we look back we know all the bricks are lying around, if we wish to take a few steps back and catch up on all we left behind.

A win-win situation, if I may say so :)