The Pregnant Deer Scenario
In a forest, a pregnant deer is about to give birth to a baby. It finds a remote grass field nearby a river and slowly goes there thinking it would be safe. As she moves slowly, she gets labor pain.
At the same moment, dark clouds gather around that area and lightning starts a forest fire. Turning left, she sees a hunter who is aiming an arrow from a distance. As she tries to move towards right, she spots a hungry lion approaching towards her.
STOCHASTIC PROBABILITY THEORY
What can the pregnant deer do, as she is already under labor pain?
What do you think will happen?
Will the deer survive?
Will it give birth to a fawn?
Will the fawn survive?
OR
Will everything be burnt by the forest fire?
Can the deer go left? No, the hunter’s arrow is pointing at her.
Can she go right? No, the hungry male lion is approaching her.
Can she move up? No, there the forest is on fire.
Can she move down? No, that is where the fierce river is.
Answer: She does nothing. She just focuses on giving birth to a new LIFE.
The sequence of events that happens at that fraction of a second (moment) are as follows:
In a spur of MOMENT, a lightning strikes, and blinds the eyes of the hunter.
At that MOMENT, he releases the arrow missing and zipping past the deer.
At that MOMENT the arrow hits and injures the lion badly.
At that MOMENT, it starts to rain heavily and puts out the forest fire.
At that next MOMENT, the deer gives birth to a healthy fawn.
In our life too there are MOMENTS of CHOICE whence we all have to deal with negative thoughts from all sides. Some thoughts are so powerful they overpower us, and make us clueless.
Anything can happen in a MOMENT in this life. If you are religious, superstitious, atheist, agnostic, or whatever, you can attribute this MOMENT to divine intervention, faith, sudden luck, serendipity, coincidence, karma, or a simple ‘I just don’t know'.
The priority of the deer, in that given moment, was simply giving birth to a baby, because LIFE IS PRECIOUS.
In future, may you always be inspired to have a focused positive insight, oblivious of all imaginary, negative probabilities.