Life is like a
Shopping Mall with range of options placed before you. It has in abundance all
the happiness, sadness, opportunities, emotions, strength, power, knowledge etc
to be chosen from. It is we who need to decide what we have to pick up from
this shopping mall named “Life”.
Either we can
be very pessimistic about the events “or” choose to see the positives. The best
part is that the power to choose what we need is bestowed upon us. Though everyone;
if given an option would like to choose ‘Happiness over Sadness’, ‘Opportunities
over Threat’ and ‘Strength over Weaknesses’ etc. but most of us end up
selecting ‘Sadness over Happiness’, ‘Threat over Opportunities’ and ‘Weaknesses
over Strength’ etc. And all this happens because the Negative items are lot
more luring to us than Positive ones just like any unhealthy food item placed
at a retail store will attract us more than the healthy ones.
In my personal case too, I have been attracted or
have been persuaded by negative thoughts hell number of times. It just happens
to everyone that sometimes we feel lost in the hills of negativity and other
times we feel as if we have conquered the Mountains of Positive thoughts. At time the tears can’t be
hold in your eyes and other times you can’t just control the laughter paved out
of eternal happiness. When we are sad, we don’t have an idea about how to
swim/escape out of it but when your jaws are working out aggressively laughing
and screaming in happiness, then we don’t find a problem in it. It’s a fact
that we all see sadness/negativity as a deadly disease to be cured immediately
while happiness as the paradise of Life. But we all tend to forget that all
these are just emotions, thoughts and part of life which are selected by our
kind-self based on situations and actions.
We all have to taste every flavour of life whether
we like it or not. All these expressions, emotions and thoughts are bundled
together as life. We just need to decide which items out of this bundle shall
be used often and which items shall never be. We cannot escape from any
sadness/negativity all throughout but what we can do is eventually reduce it to
a level that it doesn’t impact us to the slightest measure possible.
As a New Year Resolution due in few weeks, I am working towards becoming a cleaner and purer me: ‘Me’
which is clear in conscience, pure by heart and the one I can look upto in the
mirror and say this man has never deceived anyone and shall not feel negative
about anything. Afterall if your deeds are good, all good will happen to you.
Rah De Krishna. God Bless You.
