Grasshopper green is a farcical chap and lives on the best of fare!

The parable of the ant and the grasshopper is an interesting analogy that has parallels in our life. Happiness seems to have become elusive for most of us. The constant chase for success by ignoring family, friends and relations has made us miserable. We seem to be obsessed with success and are always on the run – chasing deadlines targets, goals and money, failure is anathema to us.
In my younger days I was a failure at almost everything – mainly due to my lack of self knowledge, insensitivity and downright stupidity. I think there are many of us out there who had the experience of failure in their lives. But recalling all my failures has been the most fascinating experience of my life.

Many study or have passion for one discipline but take up an entirely different vocation, in the quest for success. We always overlook what we excel in and imagine we can be proficient in some other skill. Sports men try to be actors, engineers want to be MBA’s, dancers want to be sportsmen and teachers/consultants want to be entrepreneurs. Instead of improving what we intrinsically possess, we copy a skill which we do not have. Indeed there is an arduous labor of truth – construction embodied in the notion of success. One conducted with all sorts of rhetorical, theatrical and visual mechanisms.
If we are thinking of only success and run in the rat race we will miss out all beauty and happiness in life. Bliss is concerned with everyday emotions of love, pain, and passions of hate and sex, real permanent happiness is beyond everyone’s reach. In one sense or another all of us are failures in life, since strong emotions and obsessions cannot be experimentally controlled. If the portrait of success is your ultimate purpose, then you will never understand the meaning nor can you enjoy your life.
In the tropical islands the citrus and bananas hang from the trees. Low hanging literal fruit which one can enjoy, yet we ignore it, and reach out for something that is beyond our reach. A bit of soul searching can empower you to take stock of your life.
If you look inward for the truth you can smell the fragrance of success, it lies dormant within you and you can transcend all misery psychological and physical. Retreat within to experience true bliss, real harmony and real success. So live like the grasshopper in the “now” for tomorrow is another day and don’t get stressed out like the ant and crushed and trampled by the world’s huge problems.