Times immemorial children have been taught to adjust/compromise/be judicious… Never have the Generations failed to pass on the legacy of advices, the most common and repetitive being- one has to adjust in life, make a lot of compromises and everyone does not get everything, so on and so forth…
And education and peer just strengthened the lesson; of course the experience of life reiterates this fact all the time, thereby making it a part of our belief system, unshakeable and unchangeable for centuries to come.
Wake up; let us do a reality check!!! It is a world, rather a universe, of abundance and not of scarcity. Every available (and non-available yet perceivable) thing is there, and will be there in plenty, literally forever. I mean sunlight will be there till the time we need it, plants will, for eternity, give out oxygen, rains will always balance out the heat received by a region over a period of time.
Hold on, this definitely does not mean we become complacent and do not respect these things. Apparently, these require the greatest respect and humble gratitude from our side, a constant reminder to self, as these being indispensable and hence their prime importance. People come and go and human beings adjust to reality sooner or later but can we actually imagine a world without sunlight? Oxygen?!! Nah…
Probably it is this attitude of “taken for granted” that a constant fear has been fed in our mind of resources being scarce. But awareness tells an entirely different story.
In the world of today, it is obviously required to be judicious- judicious with usage of water, oil etc for they might run out and the generations to come would just hear them as mere words in stories as we do of the Empire and wealth of our Bharat.
Also, let us peep through emotions. What is that which is scarce? Don’t we have enough love to give to all around us? Is love as an emotion scarce? I don’t think so. We are an ocean of love, what is required is to uncover the veil of the mental blocks and love people and all around us all over again. Is it that difficult? Perhaps not… we have become too sacred to love, for the fear of losing the other self or at times, even ourselves. Often we heard people saying, don’t laugh too much, for you will have to cry soon- is life that unfair!? Are we trying to put Newtons’ Third Law in practice here- Every Action Has an Equal and Opposite Reaction!! I mean how? We have deep rooted fear of the theory- life would balance out and since we have had our share of joys, we would have to face sorrows as well.
Perhaps sadness and its’ experience is important for our soul to grow and mature to the next level but definitely, it is not because sadness follows happiness.
Happiness is in abundance and knows no boundaries; all that is required is an open heart, with non-interrupting brain, to enjoy the finer things of life and the emotions to being a living being.
Come, let’s plunge into the pool of happiness, love, gratitude without the fear of drowning…
