Life lessons from a Rubix Cube

     Life is a journey, where in we continuously learn, grow and evolve. Even the smallest and tiniest of things has the ability to teach you something significant. Everything around us, no matter how tiny or large, it is has a story to tell and a lesson to teach. 

    Life unravels itself only when we are willing to listen, only when we leave all our prejudices and stereotypes behind and have an open mind.

     Rubix cube a 3D puzzle, is widely considered to be the world’s best selling puzzle games ever. It is cube, with 6 sides and each side has different colors. The challenge is to sort all the blocks of each color on the same side.

     It’s not so simple, there are various challenges you will encounter when you try to solve the cube. And these challenges can be reflected on to our lives, to have a better understanding of the situations we face in life. Let’s see what a Rubix cube has to say about life lessons:

     A Rubix cube has 6 sides. The aim is not to get sorted only one side, we need to sort all the sides, in order to have perfected the solution.

     In life we often look at just one surface of the people which appears to be perfectly sorted out and compare it with our one side which has most chaos; we presume how big a failure we are and we go to the extent of predicting our whole future as miserable.

    We picture people having everything sorted based on the limited knowledge we have about them. And in our anxious being the more we try to sort ourselves out, the more chaos we create.

We comfortably forget that we in our lives have many more aspects to be taken care of. And life just cannot be written off by just one presumably perceived failing aspect.

    Or sometimes, it may also happen that we have sorted out only one side of ours and our ego makes us believe, we have everything sorted. And our false belief may inflate our egos to such an extent that ward off or kick away those who dare to question our success.

     Both the ways of thinking are harmful to us.

   As already pointed out, life is multidimensional; we need not panic even if we don’t have a single thing sorted. What matters is how much effort you have put in sorting out all the aspects and how much close to completion you reach. You need to look at it from an all inclusive perspective. Life’s rewarding system is a little complex, it’s not all based on the end result, the path, process and the ideologies you adopt in life, play a vital role in determining your rewards.

     Let us assume you are close to perfectly sorting out one side in a Rubix cube, and you may find it impossible to sort those missing blocks, without having to rearrange or disturbing the sorted ones.

   Thus in life it so happens that we are close to achieving something and are severely disheartened when we realize that we were so close and failed, but in reality what we need to understand is, we were close. Yes , we still are close to achieve whatever we set out  for, only if we are ready to have a moment of self reflection; to understand where we stand, carefully reevaluate and re access our situation.

    We should be willing to drop our egos and reevaluate, we should be willing to accept that we are humans and may err at times. When we do this carefully, the solution / the victory is inevitable. 

      As in a Rubix cube where the ultimate goal is to get all the sides sorted, we need to keep this mind, right from the beginning. If we have a short sighted focus on only one aspect of life then sooner or later we will realize it as all for a waste.

     We can be so much obsessed about something that we totally forget about everything else. This mad race, this mindless stress and strain which we put ourselves into, is what needs to be rectified.

     Life is not a race so that we sort out that “one” thing as soon as possible and then rest forever. We are here for a life time of learning, you cannot escape from that.

     The goal is to reach as close as possible; to reach the fruition in each and every aspect of life.        We need to carefully play all the sides in a careful manner, to move closer bit by bit and aspect by aspect in life, to evolve ourselves successful out of it.

      During the initial phase when everything is in utter chaos, we feel it’s easy to sort but as we move towards closure / final stages, it becomes difficult.

    It’s the same in life when you take up something initially everything moves smoothly, everything feels heavenly and we are more than happy to be there.

       But when those circumstances become tough and difficult to endure. We are ready to give up, without realizing how close we are to the closure.

     It is in fact the time for us to be more careful about our approach, to be more careful about your strategies.

     We often tend to feel disheartened and abandon the task. It s all about going that extra mile to achieve the outcome, holding on it for a little while more, it’s about the patience and perseverance and having a “ no giving up “ attitude.