Holi is the festival of colors and a perfect time for
shoppers to do their purchases. The market is full of offers and new products.
Therefore, I also went to the market to buy a shirt for my friend. He was
looking for Light Colored Linen Shirt.
We started from the first shop and started choosing the
colors but the shirts which we liked were half sleeve not full and the same
pattern was not available in full. We moved to next shop and found the same
thing and again in the next one.
I got curious as the way I saw it was that a shirt is a
shirt whether it’s a full or a half sleeve. I thought it’s so simple, the
company has to make the same shirt one with half and one with full sleeve. I
spoke to the sales person of the shop and asked him why the patterns which we
like are not available in full. He said half sleeves shirts have a market of
their own; their patterns are usually different from full sleeve shirts. The
company doesn’t allow the two categories to eat out each other’s sales.
After thinking for a while, I felt often in life we often
think about situations and people like the full and half sleeve shirts and are
often mistaken.
We see many people around us who are successful and feel
down that we are not as good as them. Even though many a times despite our best
efforts we are not able to achieve as much success as they got. We play down
ourselves that we are not capable enough and we don’t have that spark.
We do it because we think on the same lines as I thought
that whether half or full – a shirt is just a shirt and shirts are supposed to
be same. But they are not – a half shirt has its own design, pattern, market
and customer base just like with the full shirt.
People also should be thought of in the same way. Everyone has
his own capabilities and importance. Before playing down on our failures, we
should understand we are those beautiful half shirts which have their own importance and
have those colors which even the other best full shirts in the market doesn’t possess.
“Each one
has that spark, important is what you do with it.”
