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As my friend came to the last page of the book she had been reading, her comment was, “A total disillusionment. Yet I had read such favourable reviews about this book…” Almost everyday we hear such comments… Recently everywhere we turn, we hear people voicing their disillusionments on various matters.

Why is it that all the movies attended with great enthusiasm; books read eagerly; and even relations established with great hopes; political preferences; clothes, foods, drinks and projected ventures end up in disillusionment after a while?

Why doesn’t the shampoo we use to wash our hair make us look as if we have just stepped out of a hair-dresser?

Why doesn’t the oil we use for frying sweep us off our feet like we see in the ads?

Are the politicians we vote for on the basis of their promises prior to elections the same people who seem to be suffering from loss of memory once they are elected?

Why is it that the person, who impressed us by his physical appearance and the interest he has displayed for us, as a result of which we have decided to share the rest of our lives with him seem such a stranger to us?

Why is it that the people we have “befriended” in a short while end up as serious sources of unexpected and deep disappointments?

When we notice numerous multi-coloured gift parcels on the table, why is it that our hand reaches us automatically the largest and most fanciful package? While we moan that a useless toy came out of the largest package, why do we ignore the fact that the
smallest and most plain package might have contained the most valuable diamond?

Why is there no end to these disillusionments?

Have you ever thought how much of our choices are based on our own free well?

Do we really make our choices ourselves, or are we paying for taking what is offered to us, overlooking and not questioning the details, not even really knowing what it is that we want?

I know that I kept asking questions one after the other… Yet life is so short and valuable that not even one second should be wasted. Above all else, we must establish what our own aspirations are, then think, question and search for ways to achieve them.

If we know exactly what we want when we go shopping, instead of grabbing the product imposed on us by ads, we look around for the most suitable buy to meet our requirements. If we know exactly what sort of a person we need for a happy union, .we do not feel content with what is superficially presented to us but look deep and search for the characteristics which we are seeking. During elections if we evaluate the politicians not by what they say but how they stand, what their principles and mode of life are and what they have achieved up to now, thus lessening the risk of facing disillusionments in the future.

Once we establish our aspirations, it is not enough to use our eyes and ears in making the correct choices. We have to take heed of our heart and mind which have become rather rusty due to remaining idle. Otherwise, when we come to the end of the road, it will be no use to say, “Just a minute, I have not really lived as I wanted to yet.”

The last thing we see before the curtain comes down will be “You have lived in ads.” Let us not forget that the real meaning of life is perhaps hidden in the details which we have “overlooked”.

Nuray Bartoschek