Keep Knocking

Dr Carl Rogers, the American psychologist, compares an average human being to a person who has fallen into a deep, dry well. He describes the feeling of desperation that the trapped person experiences and the agony of frustration that he cannot climb out of the well. 

This person keeps on knocking at the walls of the well with bruised and bleeding fists. Knock…Knock…Knock. After a while, it all seems futile.

The only alternative is to die and be discovered one day as a set of blanched bones at the bottom of the well. Then, there is a responding knock from the outer side of the well. There is an immediate explosion of joy and an enormous sense of relief in the poor prisoner of the well. He says, “Thank God, at last someone knows that I am here.” 

In our lives too, when we feel the same futility and loneliness and go through anxious moments of desolation and rejection, we often stutter and fumble and give in easily without even really putting up a struggle.

Keep knocking until someone turns his/her attention! 

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Life is an echo.

What you send out comes back. 

What you sow you reap. 

What you give you get. 

What you see in others exists in you.