A great many times, we don’t get what we bargained for. Yet, we accept, adjust and finally get accustomed. Life is a series of adjustments and a saga of compromises. But we don’t always adjust and compromise with a sense of resignation. Proper adjustments and compromises in life are like a beautiful language with a perfect use of phrases and punctuation marks.
Compromise doesn’t demean you. It’s a survival kit. A firm and straight tree is often uprooted by a tempest or a cyclone, but a creeper or a pliable tree survives the onslaught of gusty winds. Adjustments fine-tune an individual’s life and redefine it. When it becomes impossible to go back to normal, we have to create a new normal and adjust to it.
The Covid pandemic is the best manifestation of humans’ collective ability to adjust and innovate in order to survive. To adjust is to mellow down; when you do that, you can tackle a truckload of hurdles with equanimity, equilibrium and equipoise. However, adjustments and compromises do not always aim at happiness.
Harmony is the main objective of all adjustments and compromises, as someone put it, ‘Compromise brings harmony to both, happiness to none.’ In life, harmony is, at times, a more desirable state of existence than happiness. Happiness may come and go but harmony is likely to stay.
