The Half Shirt

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.”