Live life kingsize !
There is something really beautiful my dance instructor said yesterday, which was also encapsulation of what I was thinking of writing, since sometime last week. I wrote this post to keep these lovely thoughts with me and to share it with you all, who come over to my blog to read my mind. :) The thought started on the aspect, that she was stressing on enjoyment in dance and not just dancing. And parallely my thoughts on this post was coming in from an article from Osho on the control of the state of mind. I am trying to jist it down to my own words and thoughts here. I hope I get across this thought as nicely I learnt it.
The way we are brought up somewhere we can feel that its very easy to be angry and its really difficult to smile and enjoy. The difficulty comes from the simple fact that a smile cant be genuine unless it comes from within and on the other hand bringing out anger can be really easy. Envision this...can you be angry for an hour ? I would think its not difficult at all..think of all the bad things in life and you have more than an hour's collection to be really mad and be in foul mood. Now contemplate can you be happy ..really happy and smiliing for an hour. This may not be a deterrant that something nice is happening for a moment and you are smiling. But can you be genuinely happy for no reason ..just thinking of all good things which may have happened and stay in that state for more than an hour. Its all the more difficult to move in the celebration mode of life with each moment we live. When someone is going through a bad phase in life, we come out and sympathize and try to be nice. This may be way in trying to feel happy that its not me, who is suffering and its you instead..! On the contrary when someone is jovial and is enjoying life as it comes, we become jealous. This is something inherently wrong in the way mankind reacts and its just not you and me its with all of us. We show an outside facade (or a fake happiness) that we may be happy but somewhere a thought triggers down, why am I not so lucky instead or what wrong have I done to not to achieve it ?? and this state of turmoil leads to jealousy, anger and a state of mental disturbance. I was reading on an article from Osho the other day, where he emphasized on this saying, the state of mind is your own creation, you decided to feel bad and not celebrate, to what life has served you in the platter. Instead you go and see what looks good on other platters.! And if you yourself decide to feel bad its completely you who is responsible for your suffering. Can you change what may be in store for us in destiny ..if not than why not take it all with smiling faces and good spirits. It may be difficult but yet worth a shot ..what do u think?
The way we are brought up somewhere we can feel that its very easy to be angry and its really difficult to smile and enjoy. The difficulty comes from the simple fact that a smile cant be genuine unless it comes from within and on the other hand bringing out anger can be really easy. Envision this...can you be angry for an hour ? I would think its not difficult at all..think of all the bad things in life and you have more than an hour's collection to be really mad and be in foul mood. Now contemplate can you be happy ..really happy and smiliing for an hour. This may not be a deterrant that something nice is happening for a moment and you are smiling. But can you be genuinely happy for no reason ..just thinking of all good things which may have happened and stay in that state for more than an hour. Its all the more difficult to move in the celebration mode of life with each moment we live. When someone is going through a bad phase in life, we come out and sympathize and try to be nice. This may be way in trying to feel happy that its not me, who is suffering and its you instead..! On the contrary when someone is jovial and is enjoying life as it comes, we become jealous. This is something inherently wrong in the way mankind reacts and its just not you and me its with all of us. We show an outside facade (or a fake happiness) that we may be happy but somewhere a thought triggers down, why am I not so lucky instead or what wrong have I done to not to achieve it ?? and this state of turmoil leads to jealousy, anger and a state of mental disturbance. I was reading on an article from Osho the other day, where he emphasized on this saying, the state of mind is your own creation, you decided to feel bad and not celebrate, to what life has served you in the platter. Instead you go and see what looks good on other platters.! And if you yourself decide to feel bad its completely you who is responsible for your suffering. Can you change what may be in store for us in destiny ..if not than why not take it all with smiling faces and good spirits. It may be difficult but yet worth a shot ..what do u think?
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@Suti -> If u tell me jealousy makes life interesting ..i may agree to an extent ..its a spice and I may just like a pinch of that. But when I talked on being smug ..the philosophy comes out not from Deepak Chopra's terms, purely from what I believe in from what I have liked to learn from a few good folks around me. If you continue on that dosage of feeling starved, you may not be living your life completly. Another thought which I pass on here, when we die and till very last times, if we continue to remain in the state of despair that this wrong deed happened to me, this fella had stabbed me in my back, or I was not loved quite enough ..these fetishness stay with us and we stay in these circles and imbibe the ones who care in this whole circle of misery. The whole idea is to live as it comes..learn to be happy and enjoy it ..even if you may be lonely ..even if your platter may not have diamonds you saw in your neighbour's platter. They dont run your life you do and if you want to stay in misery who may like to save u. BTW I still love comedies like Angoor more to KANK. Don't you?
Another thought came to me (I am now also anchoring the drive for the give as u earn movement here..the NGO asked me once ..how many times do we wake up these days and say we will do a good deed today ? Make an old lady cross the road and don't u feel happy ? And just ignore her on her own and does it make a difference to u now ?
The Reachout club isnt there anymore its called Give as u earn now. And howsoever little be the time ..live in a euphoria of happiness and thats what it is. BTW I enjoyed this spike of thoughts this morning ..with u both :)