Sweet and Sour

Ever noticed a sugarcane juice vendor more commonly known as Ganne Ka Ras wala in most parts of India? He keeps squeezing the sugarcane until its well past the limits to get optimum juice out of it, knowing very well his product will be sweet or to the most a bit tasteless.
But at the same time, a lemon juice vendor (our nimbu pani wala), never will do anything like that, he gives the lemon a requisite squeeze and then throws the lemon in the bin.

Even if he tried to squeeze the lemon further, in an attempt to get more juice, he will only get sour or bitter juice. And hence spoiling what he already has.

Physically sugarcane is much bigger and stronger than a lemon, but because sugarcane is a “sweet” fruit, it is taken for granted; it is always expected to deliver sweetness. But the lemon whose properties we all are aware of is never expected to give sweetness, same is with life. We only need to portray our real properties to the world around us, people and circumstances will follow accordingly.

Most of the times, we do things so as to make others happy, to make them say such nice things about us, we are scared of being tagged negatively, of being called arrogant, ill-tempered or any other such name so we fall in line and do as we are told. We need to let the other person know how much we’d be willing to give in to him/her, to a relationship or to a circumstance and the rest shall follow.

I’m not saying we should be sour and bitter at all times, though there is nothing wrong with it, as there are countless recopies which need the lemon’s sourness, but we could all try to be like a sweet lime. A bit sweet normally but if pushed – squeezed more, give way to some bitterness too.

Life is all about balance, but by the time we learn this balance, we realize we have reached the end of the rope.