The cycle of life

Dr Viyatprajna Acharya.
Professor, Biochemistry, KIMS

Remembering the bicycle days, when a scooter crossed by my side splashing water on me and I craved for a Scooty, a scooteret, very famous among girls and women because unlike motor bikes and scooters, it had a more feminine look and the danger of dupatta or saree getting entangled in the wheels was not there. During internship got a scooty and felt highly privileged.
Family expanded and it happened so that my Scooty wreaked with the load of my elder daughter as a toddler, my maid, 2 heavy bags on the footboard ….now a new thought usurped in mind– it is time to get a car. God fulfilled that desire too. Not just one but as and when requirement arose, kept on changing cars from geared ones to automated one too. In US, experienced the pleasure of riding higher end luxury cars too.
Traffic increased and it took at times almost one hour to cross a meagre 3 km distance; Now back to scooty and sped through bustling roads to reach the destination faster. At times swerved my little angel through narrow gullies of Shikharchandi basti and reached in time for work.
Back home found 2 tiers of lipidaemic deposits on my abdomen. Came back to my fitness pal…my bicycle.
THUS THE CIRCLE COMPLETES …In Odia, the quote goes as “khada badi thoda, thoda badi khada…(ଖଡ଼ା ବଡ଼ି ଥୋଡ , ଥୋଡ ବଡ଼ି ଖଡ଼ା)” as and when we have to change ourselves and find ourselves where we started once and we come about a complete circle.
The entire movement, the life, is our own creation. Our life movements are like that of a fan, going round and round indefinitely. Farther from the centre, more is the movement. Thus, though the angular distance covered by all the points are same, the actual movement is more at the periphery, on the blades and least at the centre. The only way out is to get out as a trajectory or get into the centre. Farther from the centre, more is the restlessness. More towards the centre, the restlessness comes down and finally zeroes at the core of it, at the atom point. Now it is up to us to choose restlessness at the periphery of the cycle or peace and calm at the centre.