Last month, I got an urge to check this off my list. So, I sat watching Youtube videos and reading numerous webpages, learning about various tricks/moves to solve the Rubik's cube.
I solved it.
Then I scrambled it, to start all over again. I solved it again.
I scrambled it again, and redid the process till I memorized it's move so I could solve it without any guidance.
During, this process, I learnt something.
There were times when I was close to last few steps in solving the cube, then I would make a bad move and cube would get messed up. I would scramble it again, and start over.
There was this weird feeling of losing what I have accomplished so far, when I would scramble a solved cube. I had to tell myself that it's okay, I might take longer than I took before but I will eventually solve it. And one of those nights when I was cracking the cube, my life flashed in front of me.
When everything is going so well, there is some hesitation in doing anything that would create ripples in this otherwise still life. When there is a wrong move in your life, you just have to unwind yourself, and start all over again. It won't be the same when you start over, there will be different moves, different color combinations; but the end result once you solve the cube is the same.
I don't want to make it sound like some deep philosophical shit; but somewhere in those moments of solving this cube multiple times; I learnt my life was no different. And one must dare to mess up an otherwise solved cube, if one wants to experience the process of solving it again.
Life is nothing but a bundle of experiences. And I am glad that I have messed up as well as solved my problems numerous times, and during the process have gathered amazing experiences and memories. Every time I feel a nervousness when I try something new, I feel it's a sign that I am in a comfort zone; that nervousness is good; for me that's an indication that there can be no better time than now to break that zone and explore something new.
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