“Life will never wait for you to be okay. Get up, carry your burden and keep going.”

We may go through highs and lows in life, but we need to learn to move on ,as life does not stop for us ,at any stage. Both at work and in our personal life, just learn to move on.

Some of us may have missed a train or a flight in our life. It really disappoints us ,but the reality is that ,no train or bus or flight ,waits for any passenger, who is late. If you miss the bus, you have to catch another bus and your program may need an alteration.

Life is no different. We think, life will wait for us ,to be okay . It never happens. One may have missed a first division in school by a mark. You feel dejected ,but we need to learn from this experience and move on, determined to do better in college and in our future life.

We do face a lot of hurdles in life. Sometimes it could be personal tragedies ,like losing a near or dear one. At other times it could be missing a promotion at work. We need to learn ,to move on in life. We need to realise, that everyone faces some hurdle or the other ,and we have to learn from this and move on.

We sometimes put a brake in our lives ,due to some mishap. This can only derail ,our progress in life. Every derailment can teach us some lesson in life. We need to learn a lesson from that incident and move on.

If an athlete sprains a leg and stops while running a 400 metre race, she may not be able to make up with the others and thus may lose the race. The other athletes may not wait for her to get up, get treatment and then continue the race. This is the reality of life too.

Life never waits for us. It is like a running clock. Time never stops and if we waste our time, we are responsible for it and nobody else. We may lose the race of life and cannot blame anyone else.

Life is like climbing a mountain. If we reach the base camp and feel tired and take a break, we may temporarily feel good but the other mountaineers will move on and we may not be able to reach the peak, along with others.

We may also need to realise ,that there are some things in life, which we cannot delegate or give it to others and move on. Our disappointments, our failures are mostly due to our own limited efforts and hence we need to take responsibility and cannot blame anyone. The earlier we get over it and move on, the better it is for us.

We may sometimes think ,that we could catch the next flight or train but may realise , with disappointment that what we missed was the last flight or train on that day. The train or flight does not stop for us and that day will not come back for us in life.

Let us learn to move on in life from today.

S Ramesh Shankar

22nd June 2025