Have you ever felt perturbed by something as insignificant as a cup of tea that didn’t taste as good as you had thought it would (had to quote chai, my friends understand why!) or a visit to a relative that didn’t turn out to be quite as exciting as you had imagined (forgive me, it actually never does!). Or by something more critical, let’s say missing a bus and as a result arriving late at wherever one is supposed to be. It’s only a rhetorical question which you don’t have to answer. You may proceed…

Let’s take a statistical leap (just to put things in perspective). Seven out of ten times, we have to admit, an unexpected outcome in hindsight proves to be far more appropriate and significant than the one we had hastily foreseen earlier. Even for the remaining three instances it ends up opening a welcome prospect later, the good of which may not become immediately apparent to us. It’s partly human to want instant gratification, agreed. But that doesn’t stop us from exploring the question from an existential plane i.e., why does this have to happen and how’s it important?

A keen insight shows us that ordinary is the unexciting foundation on which the extraordinary is built (literally as well as figuratively). You missed that bus on the street, if not for unknowingly........

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