The Solid white line……

Half past five in the evening, while strolling on the new six-lane under construction Rajarhat -Madhjyamgram highway, I was appreciating the architectural skill, design and the genuine infrastructure development in the last few months in Kolkata. This is something scheduled stuff. Normally during my free evening I use to roam on that 3.5 Km road, to and fro examining aspects and at the same time enjoying the scenic beauty of nature, watching the sunset in the calm and cozy pollution free (at least better than main city) environment. I really do appreciate the recent advancements of the metro city and its leap in declaring itself worthy of calling a “Metro City”.

By the side of the road, white-lines have been marked, denoting the end point of road. I don’t know what came in my mind; I started walking on the line. That was quite funny, given that the line was not broad enough with respect to me (sigh!!). It was like performing a cat-walk on road-side (funny and silly, but I enjoyed it). After some time the road turned along its side way, and so turned the line and so do I. Going forward the line ended as further demarcation has not been completed yet. I moved forward, leaving the line. Surprisingly, still I was moving in a similar fashion, i.e., if there would be the line, it would be the same where my foot-print were imprinted.

I sat by the road, and thought, this is what they call “Discipline”. Mr. L.N.Sharma, my 1^st hostel superintendent, used to say us, once you are accustomed with the rules and regulation of hostel, you will follow it till the end of your life. This is why strict discipline is needed. It makes us focus on our goal so well, that even if restriction is no more there, we don’t deviate from our path. We all need this solid white line in our life, our work, in our attitude. In other terms, we all need to be regulated by rules, either made by others, or us. One rule may override other but still there has to be one. Moving like nomad, leads us to nowhere but the same place after a lot of zigzag path as a particle has underwent the Brownian motion yet the displacement is zero. To maximize the displacement we need to optimize the constraints. Well said by Tushar Raheza (Author of national bestseller – ‘Anything for you mam’) – “Life is a linear programming problem (LPP), full of constraints (problems) and variables (the things we care about). We cannot solve it. It can only be optimized to its maxima or minima”.

Well that’s the point – how strictly and submissively we follow the white line. It is in the nature, we like to break law. Even the 2^nd Law of thermodynamics says “The Entropy of an isolated system not in thermal equilibrium always increases”. That means, we tend to bring chaos in the system. Look around us, where one side river tries to bring equilibrium by eroding stones and filling the low area by its soil tries to bring both of them to same level, there are volcanoes, earthquakes and other calamities that again make them unequal. I we look around the globe, wherever the seismic belt is, it the area where there is least difference in natural geological topography. But for sure, one thing is unnoticed here, when a person break rules, and proclaims he/she is not governed by law, at the very same moment he/she defines a new law for him for not to be abided by any law.

So you see, this is what I mean to say, Life is nothing but a movement on Solid white line. It depends on us, to draw a new one or to follow the already drawn one and the success depends on which white line we choose to follow. This is the point where the human conscience lies within….