The Shawshank Redemption of Life.... !?

Those who have watched this movie named as "The Shawshank Redemption" might get a sense of the blog post's title, those who have not watched the movie, why did you not? Lol! A short description for you guys, it is about a man who is sentenced to life in Shawshank State Penitentiary for the murders of his wife and her lover. Although he is innocent but he has been sentenced to life, all he has is his beautiful hope and an urge to get out of jail at any cost and claim his freedom for being innocent. It takes him 19 years to dig a tunnel and escape.

Well, the thing to notice is that it does not sound much different than any one of our lives. We at some point in our life get stuck and feel like we are in a loop, repeating all the things again and again yet we see no results. The movie points towards the same thing, sometimes such things happen in our lives which we do not expect neither we ever wanted them to happen. It feels like a punishment to us, that why did it happen with us, like there are thousands of people in this world already and life chose me to suffer for a specific reason. We start finding the WHY in that incident and forget to move through that.

There are very clear two options to any such thing happening in any one's life, either stay at that same point and suffer or work hard in a routine manner and get pass through that. We want the result of the later but can not work even nearly equal to this manner.

There are very basic three things which enlighten the way to freedom:

1) HOPE

              Being abstract, it has immense power. Hope is what keeps a man going, because he believes that YES there is a way out there on the other side of the tunnel. The mind is such a powerful thing that it can keep a man so focused that he achieves what he has been trying for. Hope is believing in oneself, that better days are yet to come and the point where you are stuck, it may seem a down way stream to you right now but just think how otherwise would you get enough speed to pursue the flight ahead.

2) Plan and Execution

                               

                               Well only hope will not work for you, now it is the time to water your plant and grow it. You have to work on it in order to get it complete it and this can not be done without a good framework. When you need to get out our this loop then you have to work at each level and each level may demand new criteria from you so be ready to do changes in your plan and the way of working. This part is really important as these are the little steps of everyday work and this is the main ladder to which you are building to get you out of this deep hole. Each part makes a new step in this ladder taking you up towards your freedom. 

 

3) CONSISTENCY

                    The above two are really very important to be there for a good outcome and to make you believe that you can overcome any hurdle, but then there is this consistency which would matter the most at the end. It is like the viva which is to be taken by you and you can not pass your subject even after completing the exam successfully. This lies in the small habits of yours which become a part of daily life and build up the two above skills as well. This would be very common that you will not love every day nor will you wish to work every day but still giving time to your goal is what you call consistency so that hard days of today could be turned into relaxed days ahead.

These three are the core things needed to keep going on to get yourself out of the loophole. What many of us usually worry about is time, everyone wants results in hours, but things take time and man can use time but man can not control time. Therefore the thing which is not to be controlled by man should be let go of worry-list, what a man can control is how he uses that time and divides the task in proper ways to accomplish small goals that lay the foundation of bigger ones.

"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things and no good thing ever dies."