The Escalator Moment

"The best things in life are unexpected, because there were no expectations." - Eli Khamarov

So, it goes like this. I went to the local mall this noon for the pizza. And this mall have escalators( every mall have). But, the escalator is not my concern what caught my attention was a couple. The lady seemed to have never used the escalator and was bit apprehensive about it. And her husband was giving all the logic and the strategies to do so. He himself demonstrated those by going down and coming back. I don't know if the lady overcame her fear( OK, I went for pizza and was really hungry ), but the incident gave a lot of fodder for my brain.

Everyone of us being a part of society is expected to follow a certain set of rules. And how we learn these rules. My answer, every moment we spend. Ever since childhood we are told to follow the path that everyone is following get good marks, don't make friends of other religion, get admission in a reputed college, get the branch everyone aspire and then get the job(preferably government so that you won't get kicked out for not working). Then get married , have children and don't forget to have a medical insurance, retirement plan and so on.

And what an escalator means to me. OK, you must have a laugh, but for a person for whom stairs have always been static, this is something new. For a person to whom doing something new is taught as equivalent to taking risk, this is a real task to be performed. It is like telling someone to put his hand in fire. No matter how many times you will explain, nobody will do it, because so called common sense stops him from doing so( a real bad example, I mean putting hand in fire).

This is also true that there is also a limit to taking risk. But at least you can take a risk, if you have such a really supportive husband with you.

And what this escalator moment brings.It makes you realize the chains you have always been carrying with you. It revels you the truth that life is not as monotonous and morbid as you have always known.You must haven't forgot your childhood when someone told you that you can fly if wore a red cape. And you believed it because world was full of possibility back then.And then Pythagoras theorem came into your life, one thing after another and finally you reach a state when boarding a moving stair is a daunting task to perform. Don't you want to feel the childhood moment than start searching for your escalator moments here and there, for they may change your life.And at least you can reach your pizza faster :)