“What’s an Opportunity to a man who’s never had enough?” - By Devyani Konkati of BSC BTCFS Second Year

 

 

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The mind was always perplexed when it thought of opportunities. Were they awaited for, or, were they created? It was indeed a deep dilemma on how opportunities worked. But the only thing which was sure, was, it came with insufficiency and sacrifices.

To someone who has never had enough, opportunity is like a small ray of hope through a pinhole, but as a double-edged sword, it is also the darkness surrounded by the walls of a war room. Opportunity is a mirage, an illusion created when you are vulnerable although you weren’t in a desert the whole time. It is the time where one needs to choose, whether to give up everything for anything, or, give up anything for everything. Opportunities are never fair, they are partial and biased, to only those who were greedy and selfish for themselves. It came to those who snatched it in a blink of an eye. It waits for none nor does it comes late. Getting an opportunity is as easy as to breathe, but to grab and live it, is as difficult as to breathe during your last moments. That is why man is always whining when he has no opportunities but is reluctant as soon as he is served one, no matter what kind of circumstances he is in.

The man keeps revolving in the cycle of insufficiency which explains that a man who’s never had enough, is a fool who has everything, but fails to realize it. The absence of enough, breeds the man with resilience, but at the same time it makes man dangerously adaptable and unstoppable.

Opportunities makes man addicted to things like hope and faith. But the worst part is, that they only come when they are least expected, when the man is hopeless and least faithful. To seize an opportunity is to take risk and cease fire against the odds of life. It is to stay curious on where life leads you to. Life is not fair to everyone that is why, in this world of fools, only those who go against the odds, win and those who rise up before everyone does, survive.

Opportunities are the world’s ultimate Pandora box waiting to be opened by those who defy the insufficiency.