A Spark Plug ignited my CONFIDENCE!!

One bright morning it was!! I pulled myself together and started to carry on with my daily routine. I had joined yoga classes a few weeks before (which I’m quite proud of actually) and I prefer my vehicle to accompany me to the class.

So, the slothful me climbed down the stairs, walked 34 yards, and reached near my vehicle. I carefully hung my bag and hopped on the motorcycle, which unhesitantly bore my chunky body. I started the vehicle by pushing the ignition button, and started driving. In around 10 feet, BOOM! It turned off! I tried to power start it a million times and then tried my luck by kicking it, and hoping that it would start again with a roar! but hey! you know what!! I’ve always been so lucky in my bad luck. YES! All my struggle, all the calories I spent on kicking the bloody bike was unsuccessful!! I NEEDED HELP!! Who else could I’ve called except my dad!!

I called him and explained him what happened and he came down in the next few mins with a few fancy looking tools and a piece of rag in his hands. He smiled at me and sat down near the vehicle and unscrewed the plastic body, and used the fancy tool to get out the spark plug of the vehicle, but it was a while since my dad repaired this bike, so he had confused looks in his face and when i asked him what happened, he told me he couldn’t find the spark plug!! Oh My GOD!! You know the kind of shiver u have while watching a horror movie, that weakens your spine and you needs support? That is exactly how I felt! What had happened to the spark plug? I knew people loot gasoline from vehicles, but who could rob a spark plug!!

I tried and calmed myself and sat down near him and looked at it, pretending myself to be an automobile engineer!! Eureka!! I found the spark plug (I still feel happy like a kid who got a candy for no reason for finding an automobile part which i haven’t seen in my lifetime before that moment). My dad started instructing me to fix it, and after a few seconds I was doing it all by myself and finally i shoved the plug back inside the vehicle, in the place where it belonged and tried starting the vehicle again!

To my surprise, I succeeded in my very first attempt.

The motor cycle got ignited with a roar!! I drove it in within the street to check if it actually worked properly, because I couldn’t imagine myself pushing the bike all the way back home!! It was just perfect!! Everything was fine.

I actually realized that I had actually repaired my bike myself with very little help from dad,I had done something that i had never done/seen getting done before. I was exhilarated! I was happy as a peacock dancing in the rain. I was happy as a kid playing in puddles. I was genuinely happy about myself for the first time after a while!! And that was when my dad said to me “ THIS IS WHAT INDEPENDENCE TASTES LIKE”. He was never a dramatic person who would manage to give advice showers for hours!! He spoke very little, but when he did, he made sure his words were sensible and encouraging and made an impact.

I always remembered me as an independent kid, but a lot of ‘incidents’ changed the way I was, changed the way I looked at life, changed my perception towards things, changed the way I dealt with problems, changed myself, my soul!! I had let people influnce me and my thoughts. I had become a negative person (which was not like ME. I was the most happiest and the most positive person I had ever known). I regretted decisions that I had taken, I complained a lot about myself lately. In short I HAD LOST MYSELF.

This is not any automobile tutorial on changing a spark plug, but one incident that made a huge impact on my present self!! There are moments on everybody’s life that become life changers!! This was one such moment for me.

It all takes one such moment to Re-Build the lost confidence in one own self. This was that moment for me. When I could do something that i have never done, I thought could change myself. When I could repair a Machine, I thought I could repair myself, I could heal myself.

Well, don’t ask me if I have become MYSELF again. I believe it is a long process!! By ‘IT’ I mean Self Love/ Self Healing!!

It was the day when I found out that every human has a spark plug within himself/herself which needs proper conditions to ignite the Positivity/independency inside us that helps us in the long run!!

So as Buddha says “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concenterate the mind on the present moment”. LIVE THE MOMENT.

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