Ever since we are little children, we envision a life that lies
ahead and picture it to be so perfect and assume its a given that all
we dream of will so perfectly and so flawlessly come true. A perfect
degree, a perfect job, a perfect love followed by a perfect marriage and
perfect babies leading on to to lot of other perfect stuff and then a
perfect old age spent perfectly with perfect little grand children. Or
perhaps at that age you just think up to the perfect 30 something where
everything you've dreamed of will be in your kitty and life will be so
smooth. Parents always protect you inside a bubble and keep you in that
rosy world till you are out there on your own one fine day and that
world appears alien to you. You feel like you've spent your life so far
living in some sort of a parallel universe. And then life throws its
fair share of challenges at you. Unimaginable situations and
some you never thought your perfect life could ever encounter. You
experience various emotions you never knew existed; pain, sorrow, more
pain and more sorrow and you don't think you can ever make it through
that time. You wake up each day wondering why this is happening to you
and what you have done to deserve this, and go to bed each night trying
to figure when this will pass . You try to evaluate the situation
against your 'karma' theory of life that you grew up believing but nothing makes
sense anymore and everything becomes a mess. You lose yourself
completely in the process!
Yet you lose yourself only to find yourself again in due course as someone new, someone different and someone transformed! A survivor - a caterpillar who finally became a butterfly!! And when that happens you have developed a new level of strength that you never knew existed within. You stop looking for answers as you realise that somethings in life just don't fit into any watertight compartments and are completely random. There is no real reason why whatever happened with you, good or bad, actually took the liberty of happening to you and not to someone else.
On another note, I do still believe in Karma. But I believe in doing the first line of the karma shlok 'karmanye vadhikaraste' and then not thinking about what comes later. Maybe all the good/bad Karma does even out over several lives after all, and thats why some good things happen to bad people and bad things to good people!!
Here I go again.....looking for answers.....so much for saying I have stopped looking for answers.....LOL!! :))
Yet you lose yourself only to find yourself again in due course as someone new, someone different and someone transformed! A survivor - a caterpillar who finally became a butterfly!! And when that happens you have developed a new level of strength that you never knew existed within. You stop looking for answers as you realise that somethings in life just don't fit into any watertight compartments and are completely random. There is no real reason why whatever happened with you, good or bad, actually took the liberty of happening to you and not to someone else.
On another note, I do still believe in Karma. But I believe in doing the first line of the karma shlok 'karmanye vadhikaraste' and then not thinking about what comes later. Maybe all the good/bad Karma does even out over several lives after all, and thats why some good things happen to bad people and bad things to good people!!
Here I go again.....looking for answers.....so much for saying I have stopped looking for answers.....LOL!! :))
3 comments:
Good.
Thank you bhaiya
that is how the human mind works..it cannot rest without answers..and that quest is what brought us to this period of evolution... but as you said it not necessary that we get an answer every time...some times it should just be left to the Greater Known...
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