A very fascinating thought crept into my mind as I was reading an article in the newspaper about Indian politics and the election fiasco happening at this time. I pondered on the thought for a while, it led me into writing this blog now. A forewarning, I love to be philosophical, so the follows the nature of my writing.
Everyone has their own ideals and principles, everyone follows some faith or the other, and they hold unto their beliefs which is quite a natural phenomenon. In my view, this forms a foundation for a particular personality to take form. In time, as they progress in life, they face many challenges, riddled with problems, blessed with happy occasions, so on and so forth. These occurrences add flavor to their personalities. Now the problem is from time to time, due to the impact of the occurrences one has in their life, their personality grows or shrinks. As a result, the form that has taken shape as an initial personality, based on the ideals, principles, faith and belief systems starts to fade away. What follows then is chaos, unrest ... Now many would suggest techniques like meditation, yoga to keep once self at peace. In my view, one needs to primarily understand the root-cause for such a thing to happen in the first place. Such an introspection would lead them down to more trouble, because then one would discover all the hidden flavors that have become a part of their personality. Life would then look cumbersome, how many devils can you fight at one time ?
My theory is very simple and there you have the answer to all the questions. Surprised ? Let me explain. If one has a strong understanding of basic mathematics, you would know that linear equations are always solved by bringing them down to their simplest form, where you find the value attached to each variable in its simplistic form. Its the same with life, when you start to make things simple, removing all complications one step at a time, you will find the true form of your personality based on your own ideals and principles, faith and belief systems. Thus you will end up with the truest form that you are originated with. Hence, justice served for a very old-saying of life - "Be yourself at all times". Every problem has a solutions in itself, you have to carefully take away the unnecessary portions that complicates an aspect into a problem and you will find the solution to be presented in its simplistic form. Now our mind is so designed, the immediate question that would crop up is HOW.
How can you remove the complications, when everything is inter-dependent and everything is linked together, doesn't that disturb the balance of life ? The answer is yet again very simple. Let me explain. It is true, since life is so dynamic in nature, we cannot discard away portions to say lets make it easy and simple. For this would make us realize in our effort to iron out our problems in one aspect of life, we have only managed to further complicate every other aspect of life. Now looks like I am complicating this whole theory. Let me make it simpler for understanding. For instance, if you ever visit a village market early in the morning, you will notice that the farmers from respective villages bring their loads of produce of different varieties and bundle them together in one place.They then watch the quantities of each variety of crop carefully and accordingly fix a price collectively, along-with the retailers and distributors of the respective villages being involved. The important term to watch for here, is 'collectively'. We do-not live in this world alone. We are born into a family, with father, mother, brothers, sisters, relatives, so on and so-forth. With time, the number of people involved in our lives, increases multi-fold by friends, colleagues, wife, husband, kids, so-on and so forth. Now at any given juncture in life, there are a handful of people who become our companions with whom we share everything about ourself. Based on the trust one holds in another, we can collectively work together to make our life easy with the help of simple-thinking.
Many of us, rather most of us are so caught up with the pace of life that is prevalent now in this modern world, we fail to realize that we are not the only people living in this world and we overlook the fact that life is to be lead with a smile on our face and peace in our heart. Its not about how popular we are or how much money we have accumulated, or how safe and secure we have made ourself. Open your eyes to simplest of the truth that we all belong to one race and we can make the world a better place by keeping our thoughts simple and living with one another in harmony. So keep it simple people !!!
Everyone has their own ideals and principles, everyone follows some faith or the other, and they hold unto their beliefs which is quite a natural phenomenon. In my view, this forms a foundation for a particular personality to take form. In time, as they progress in life, they face many challenges, riddled with problems, blessed with happy occasions, so on and so forth. These occurrences add flavor to their personalities. Now the problem is from time to time, due to the impact of the occurrences one has in their life, their personality grows or shrinks. As a result, the form that has taken shape as an initial personality, based on the ideals, principles, faith and belief systems starts to fade away. What follows then is chaos, unrest ... Now many would suggest techniques like meditation, yoga to keep once self at peace. In my view, one needs to primarily understand the root-cause for such a thing to happen in the first place. Such an introspection would lead them down to more trouble, because then one would discover all the hidden flavors that have become a part of their personality. Life would then look cumbersome, how many devils can you fight at one time ?
My theory is very simple and there you have the answer to all the questions. Surprised ? Let me explain. If one has a strong understanding of basic mathematics, you would know that linear equations are always solved by bringing them down to their simplest form, where you find the value attached to each variable in its simplistic form. Its the same with life, when you start to make things simple, removing all complications one step at a time, you will find the true form of your personality based on your own ideals and principles, faith and belief systems. Thus you will end up with the truest form that you are originated with. Hence, justice served for a very old-saying of life - "Be yourself at all times". Every problem has a solutions in itself, you have to carefully take away the unnecessary portions that complicates an aspect into a problem and you will find the solution to be presented in its simplistic form. Now our mind is so designed, the immediate question that would crop up is HOW.
How can you remove the complications, when everything is inter-dependent and everything is linked together, doesn't that disturb the balance of life ? The answer is yet again very simple. Let me explain. It is true, since life is so dynamic in nature, we cannot discard away portions to say lets make it easy and simple. For this would make us realize in our effort to iron out our problems in one aspect of life, we have only managed to further complicate every other aspect of life. Now looks like I am complicating this whole theory. Let me make it simpler for understanding. For instance, if you ever visit a village market early in the morning, you will notice that the farmers from respective villages bring their loads of produce of different varieties and bundle them together in one place.They then watch the quantities of each variety of crop carefully and accordingly fix a price collectively, along-with the retailers and distributors of the respective villages being involved. The important term to watch for here, is 'collectively'. We do-not live in this world alone. We are born into a family, with father, mother, brothers, sisters, relatives, so on and so-forth. With time, the number of people involved in our lives, increases multi-fold by friends, colleagues, wife, husband, kids, so-on and so forth. Now at any given juncture in life, there are a handful of people who become our companions with whom we share everything about ourself. Based on the trust one holds in another, we can collectively work together to make our life easy with the help of simple-thinking.
Many of us, rather most of us are so caught up with the pace of life that is prevalent now in this modern world, we fail to realize that we are not the only people living in this world and we overlook the fact that life is to be lead with a smile on our face and peace in our heart. Its not about how popular we are or how much money we have accumulated, or how safe and secure we have made ourself. Open your eyes to simplest of the truth that we all belong to one race and we can make the world a better place by keeping our thoughts simple and living with one another in harmony. So keep it simple people !!!
