Side Step Leads To Forward Step

"Lets stay focussed on a step backward to have 10 steps forward", 

"If the sword is too short, add to its length by taking a step forward"

These are quite a few quotes that I read by some famous people when they talk about positive attitude and success in life. This of course is definitely true, yet according to me, is not completely true. The longest step or bold step forward thus lays for a road for success, unless the road one is travelling is in the right direction. As poets and writers say life is journey. Different people take different paths yet converge at the point of destination. Some have belief the path they choose, while others follow someone else's path. 


Either way after sometime it comes to a point whether the choice they made was right or wrong. Some question their belief, while others question the credibility in someone else' path for the success. Then is the time when one should probably make a side step. 

About couple of decades ago, after completing my high school, I was so excited to watch a movie(my matnee idol, megastar chiranjeevi's Gharana Mogudu) first day first show. That was the first time I ever attempted to watch first day first show. I had no insight as to at what time I should be at the theater. I vaguely remember from my cousin that I should be there even before the gates are open(not the ticket counter). I, along with my neighbor, went there only to find out that, though the gates were not open, looking at the mad rush of crowd, it would take atleast an hour to touch the gate. Finally after the gates were open, we ran crazily towards the ticket counter and formed a queue. I do not even know how far we were away from the counter. 

After a little while, my friend asked me to hold his place in the queue. He stepped out made an estimate of the line and he came back and told me "its impossible to get a ticket from where we are standing, there are atleast 300 ahead of us, Balcony and First Class tickets are only 272, I am going for Second Class tickets will you join me?"  I replied back "I am not interested in Second Class, I only prefer Balcony"

He shot back "We are here to watch the movie, doesn't matter which class it is, if you do not know what your goal/priority is, I can't help you" and vanished. After some time, I heard someone ahead of me saying that they are unsure of getting tickets. I started to go anxious repenting for not going with my neighbor. When there were 5 ahead of me, tickets were over. In the meantime, my friend came running towards me showing a Second class ticket in hand and ran into the theatre

I started cursing myself why I couldn't do the same. After all, what he said was genuinely true. What it mattered for us was to watch the movie, doesn't matter where we sit. I went home disappointed only to come next day even more earlier and thus wasting one extra day and missing the first day first show fun.

In everyone's life there comes a point when one needs to introspect . To know that one needs to take the imaginary side-step to analyse and realize if he is walking the right path and right direction. This side step ensures if the already existing path is right or wrong. This side step will make one think about a new path to reach one's goal in life. The step for definite success and right destination.

This Side Step Leads To Forward Step.