FOLLOW YOUR CONSTANT…..
All of us have them. A goal, an ideal, a belief, an
unwavering faith – that is our Constant. It is what gets us out of bed every day.
Without it we sink like a soufflé never to rise again. Depression, inertia, the
blues, sloth afflict all those who lose sight of their Constant. Whether it is
an exercise plan, a diet regimen, a job schedule, or a relationship hurdle
every human has to have a dot to connect to - otherwise we are in a dark
infinite space in which we are suspended with earth beyond our feet and heaven
forever out of reach.
Your Constant is uniquely your own – you cannot explain it,
justify it or hope to get others to understand it. It is the lonely mountain
that each follows a different path to scale the summit. You have to walk it
alone with your Constant, an eternal flame burning in the brain…. Only when you
die does your Constant get extinguished. And, if you lit a spark in your
children that flame will burn in them but it will always be their Constant.
Only they can nurture it, fan it to great heights and keep that ember burning
through their lives…
What is my Constant? It is and always will be – exercise. It
gets me out of bed on the coldest day when I just want to snuggle and sleep, it
uplifts me from the darkest depth of despair, it gives shape and meaning to my
life and it always places me on the summit of life’s lonely mountain where the
view is everything you dreamed it would be.
Now my Constant is calling and I gotta go…
Nimmou Nilakantan
