Life is a Frisbee ... !!

I happened to conjure this phrase when I visited Kashid this weekend. We had bought a Frisbee so that we can play in the sea. With every throw, catch and dive, I felt some sort of correlation of the Frisbee with Life.

For starters, all the players need to go some way into the sea to start playing. Its not worthwhile to play on the beach itself since the Frisbee sways a lot and you need to run if it sways away from you. Instead, if you are in the water, you derive more thrill by diving or swimming till the Frisbee. This is so true about life too. For anything that you do, you know exactly the output that will drive you to perform some activity. If you start at some point and don't feel the thrill or the worth, you invariably try and do it some other way.

The next point is when all the players involved throw for the first time. The wind will not be suitable for all players. For some players, his/her throw will travel in a straight line to the next person. But for someone else, his/her throw may be against the wind and the Frisbee will not sway according to plan. In such a case, all such players who feel the wind is against them need to relocate so as to avoid the gust. Again, very similar to life. For anything that you need to do in life, you will invariably face a problem while starting off. The steps you take to avoid these problems decide how effective you would be in life.

When the Frisbee is thrown, some player needs to catch it. Being a lightweight object, it sways before settling at a point. When the Frisbee is in the air (and not settled yet), the player catching it feels that it may fall at a certain point whereas actually it sways more/less as compared to anticipated and does enough to fool the player resulting in the player being unsuccessful in catching it. Anything you do in life appears to be do-able in a certain way. Throughout its journey, you mend your ways to achieve anything. Estimates go for a toss and you may fall short.

When the wind is too much in your favor (it means that whenever you throw, the Frisbee sways dramatically), you need to throw it in such a way that when it falls, the catcher doesn't need to move a lot. For this, you should throw it in such a way that it starts very far off from the catcher but it sways so much that it lands very close to the catcher. You do in anything in life but its important that the end result is fine and to the comfort of most number of people.

When you are catching the Frisbee, sometimes you may need to jump to catch it. Sometimes you jump correctly and catch it. At other times, the Frisbee stays in the air for that extra second and you mistime your jump. Had you stayed still for another second and jumped, you would have caught it. You need to time your moves in life. One step taken before/after its time can create havoc coz its not that you cant do it. Its just that you jumped the gun. Had you not, it isn't that difficult a task.

The last one was fun. When you dive to catch the Frisbee (assuming you are neck deep in the sea. In fact, chin-deep), you may be stretched to the limit and off your feet. The dive may result in you being completely immersed in the sea. Now, this is salty water capable of spoiling your hair, irritating your eyes, etc (for people who care a lot about themselves). If you are not ready to face consequences, its better you not start off at all. The best case would be to enjoy the consequences.

Maybe there is much more to life than a Frisbee. I am certain that there exists something else too that can be correlated to Life.

Cheers ... !!