In pursuit of something irrelevant
or falling in an unknown space, this world keeps moving every day. There is a
wide speculation that ‘everyone’s goals are chased’, ‘dreams are made real’ and
so on but I believe that the real essence of life is missed on the way. Have
you ever wondered why this world is highly partial to its people? Why someone
has the power and wealth to have fun while the other literally starves every
day? Why someone has the liberty to grow a cash tree while the unluckiest of
the lot willing to house under a branch-less tree?
Ironically, the answer lies within
the question itself. It is just the belief and attributes of an individual that
defines who one really is and how one perceives the world. Many are
under-privileged because of the place, race, and time and to the parents they
are born. Incidentally, no one can control their birth. But their life till the
end is by far in their own hands. This could well be proved by the fact that this
world has seen great people with magical lifestyle undoubtedly from every
corner of the world. The one quality of all is being the HOPE.
Hope, as said, is the most special
virtue in human life. It is like a ‘pointing finger’ painted on a door that is
closed to you. It points, directing to you to another door further on that will
open to your big opportunity. Keep looking for that other door – that open door
where success, great lifestyle and the so called ‘liberties’ could be achieved.
However, many hands do not possess
this ‘pointing finger’. Those whole lots of people have created a space for
themselves and are just living and passing everyday just to die soon. This
action all revolves in your minds and without ‘hope’, life is a barren land
with maize seeds thrown in. Hope to live and never hope to die. This is not
human at all.
Every man in this world is striving
to reach a space which is abstract, but the fact is through that process, one
forgets to live. Everyone awaits the future, believing it exists if alive and
restrict oneself to believe there is happiness even now.
A salesman was having trouble making
sales, always afraid and forever whistling in the dark. An older and successful
salesman gave him a 3-sentence prayer. Reprising that the results were miraculous
and his percentage of sales rose steadily.
A group of words or three sentences
changed many a lives. The prayer is:
‘I believe that I am
always divinely guided..!
I believe that I
will be led always to take the right turn of the road.
I believe that GOD
will always make a way where there is no way’.
Quality
of Self:
In the last 21 years, I happened to
travel a lot, maybe more than others would have done in my same age-group.
Family pilgrimages, school tours, college industrial tours, trekking and for
participating in numerous symposiums, I kept travelling and found endless
patterns of people around the country. The difference between people from
various landscapes arouses mainly from their cultural habits. Everyone makes
own lifestyle and keeps surviving every day, really not knowing what they are
up to. Every life is fulfilled only when the time comes to make you feel that
you are satisfied. In the world, not the money nor the power that determines
fulfilment but the art of getting contended is what gives the fullest
satisfaction. In the history of human life, if one clearly observes, ‘he who is
satisfied with his desires and principles has become great in life’.
An important question for anyone is:
‘what am I doing to my own self? Am i making myself big to equate with the
power potential in me? Or am I accepting smallness as I am capable of?’ The
answers and confidence by which your answer yourself defines the gem who you
are. To think yourself smaller than you actually are a violation of your real
nature and disaster is anytime near.
Through
the years, every thought, every emotion, every experience contributes to the
quality of self. We are coincidence building up or breaking down the self. The
art of leading gives you the wisdom to lead others. As the world knows, success
is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent motivation.
No matter how old or how settled one
becomes, self is in the making continuously. Everything contributes to its
greatness or littleness, its stagnation or growth, its shadow contention or
real attribute. The world perceives to chase their dreams in an empty arena
where the entire hope rests within. I perceive that this world is still better
when the inner-self actuates and people go in by answering the questions their
self asks. Just imagine if everyone speaks to their self and do great things
benefitting all, how the world would be?!
Hope
to see things come true:
Hope is wishing for a thing to come
true; faith is the believing that it will come true. The world is real; its
people are real; their actions and achievements are real but everyone keeps
trending the unknown path of contention. Many conceive to forget that the art
of satisfaction lays in every action. Chasing dreams of fantasy is absurd while
chasing dreams of contention is the only absolute. Every day, every moment do
actions by which you get satisfaction, similarly even now when I write this
blog, I feel so. This unbelievable feeling called ‘HOPE’ is wanting something
so eagerly that, in spite of all evidences that you are not going to get it,
you go right on expecting it.
However, the actions on the way to
tread the undefined path are satisfactory. There is nothing wrong in doing so,
as even if one fails to reach the destination, one still lives in the road that
is the real outcome of fulfilment. And the remarkable thing is that this very
act of hoping or belief produces strength of its own. No matter how long it
takes, ‘persist’. No matter how discouraged you get, ’persevere’. No matter how
much you want to quit, ‘hang in there’.
Deep within an individual is a vast
reservoir of untapped power waiting to be used. The big heart of faith can push
those crushing circumstances of life wide apart. The positive mind is not
limited, while it carries the power to penetrate, solving the problems in life
effectively. People who have big hearts and big minds need not be afraid of
what may come, for those hearts and minds determine the quality of the future.
Expectations many a times lead to
disappointments. Even then, I often never fail to expect. It gives courage to
keep your head held high, seek right things and march forward in life leaving
behind countless defeats, embarrassments and struggles. I expect this world to
be full of hearts and minds, filled with contended people who feel satisfaction
in every action they do. I expect one answers oneself before doing every
action. I expect that the sun never sets on anyone who deserves to live rather
defy dying. Eventually, I believe with the fullest hope, this world will be a
far better place to live in, even better than the ages of its birth millenniums
ago.
