Shruti Says 'Sorry Is All It Takes'

    • Shruti Dvivedi Sodhi
    • Publish Date: Jan 23 2017 6:38PM
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    • Updated Date: Jan 23 2017 6:38PM
Shruti Says 'Sorry Is All It Takes'

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The next gen pop icon Justin Bieber’s song by the same name has become quite a hit on my refreshed play list and like the next gen sometimes I play it on the “loop”. It makes me both enjoy the song and appreciate the importance of living in the “loop” with things that make us happy!
 
I discover a new found freedom in my interpretation of the song and despite running the risk of getting dissed by the next gen for patronising the song or reading too much between the lines!! – to me it signifies the importance of unconditionally apologising for whatever went wrong  and resonates with the ability to keep compassion above all other emotions. It also provides space to review and retrace relationships – I attempt a brave try with that on my favourites – our next gen with whom there’s always an opportunity to use it as a tool to make amends, understand, break barriers and move way beyond the manoeuvrability our cocoons of righteousness, age and possibly ego provide.
 
A big opportunity shows up inside of the fact that in our attempt to drive our lives towards bliss and perfection, we are mostly trying to create lives that look eerily cloned and poor cousins of what our contorted visions of a perfect/good life should be. The "shoulds" can safely be claimed to be the largest contributors to our catastrophic attempts at ideal parenting. The cataclysmic consequence in this process has been the immense damage we have caused to our next gen. The impact manifests itself and can be seen at different levels. Almost always lacking in measuring up to our "shoulds" in studies, games, extra- curricular and of course behaviour. The unseen and unsaid pressure this brings forth and the damage it inflicts is unthinkable and immeasurable.
 
Impacted by the realisation of the misgivings and failings this has inflected on the next gen, I decide to course correct in as much as and to the extent I can retrieve/repair. The correctional journey begins with a new found compassion to their stressed and challenged life, the conflict between matching up to our “should” yet being “acceptably cool” and “fitting in” with the peers. The confusion, uncertainty, stress and the lack of clarity it causes is scarily palpable.
 
Glimpses of the helplessness, turmoil, fear that exists and in turn manifests itself in laziness, belligerence, diffidence and all things that make us unhappy and cause mutual stress are for all to see. Being present to it all, I start with a feeble acknowledgement powered with an unconditional apology. It’s welcomed with the brightest grins I have seen in the longest time - guess what “Sorry” is all that it takes!
 

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