As a recap of where I left off, we were discussing that no matter how fast we run, we can never out run the race itself.

It is true. You will always be a part of the race, leading or lagging would be decided by how badly you want the bread crumbs thrown at the end of the track. We are talking about money gentlemen; it is the money that is the bread crumb of our rat race. We’d never ever come out of the sadistic loop so long as we keep running behind the bread crumbs. Is there a way out? My heart asks. There’s got to be, so sayeth my brain.

Let us fancy our options.

Option 1: We keep running after the bread crumbs that we can see.

Option 2: We change our palate. We change our paths. We start believing that the journey is more important than the destination.

Since Option 1 is a tried, tested and wasted option, let me tell what option 2 can do for you. What it can do, is wonders!! You ask me how... And I am more than glad to share it.

Some rats - have some bread crumbs, some have more and others have lots of it; yet all of them are still running for more. Whereas you, not interested in the bread anymore, start walking the jolly walk - in a path that makes you feel good. You are just enjoying the path mind you, and not running behind anything in particular. Now the rats with the bread crumbs, surprised and shocked at the same time realize something that they should have realized long back. You are enjoying, they are not. Just to enjoy the same path that you are walking, or your company, or both... Those rats, having collected bread crumbs - few and more, join you and walk your path. But you are the leader, THE ONE. And to please you or pay you, they would be ready to share their bread crumbs with you. Now, you have got to be smart and not take that as the end of that. You do not want the bread crumbs remember?! So you offer them to the other rats that are still in the race. Some more would join you, and add to your stock of bread crumbs. You keep walking your path. The rat race is eternal. What you have found here, is that just by taking the path that you wanted to take, and enjoying it... You are getting the best of both worlds. You have the bread mind you, loads of it. As and when you need it you use it. And yet, you always always enjoy your journey... You are not running and it is the path of your choice.

Now, if there is flaw in this logic. I’d love to know. Till then, may your psyche have the strength to choose and make your own path. Amen.