This was contributed by Brijesh Bartwal for the May 2012 edition of our club newsletter.
Prepared or unprepared. Am I prepared or unprepared?
These thoughts keep on coming to our minds again and again. We believe that we are prepared, but the moment we enter into the premise of realizing that 'preparedness', we realize that the ground is not under our feet anymore, and we feel 'unprepared' again.
For example, no matter how much we prepare for our speeches, we always feel unprepared. In our exams too, we study and try to cover every single topic, but still we feel unprepared. At least, I always felt unprepared.
In general, my observation is that most of the times we are unprepared for the events which take place around us. We don't know about the unprecedented arrival of a guest, we don't know about the sudden ringing of telephone, we don't
know about the sudden rise and fall of economy, we don't even know about a surprise call from the table topic master!
Though there are big think tanks who claim that they keep a hawk-eye on economy but 2009's disaster is an evidence that most of the powerful economies were unprepared for the 'economic tsunami'.
Think about the moment when you prepared a lot but a strong sense of unpreparedness knocked you down or a sudden moment when you were unprepared to face that. And those are the actual breath-taking moments which most of the
times convey long lasting messages to us.
We all are the victims of the phobia of unpreparedness at some point of time. Even now as I pen down my write-up, it seems like there is nothing on my mind and all the words which I am writing are coming from some third world.
And there lies the beauty of unpreparedness.
Once you will end up reading this, you may feel that this is an unstructured write-up because you are only prepared for beautiful and structured write-ups but still you have read it because "The beauty of facing life unprepared is tremendous" ~ Osho
