Anything about you, that you do not control, controls you - Robin Sharma
Profound as it sounds, living your life by it you can be really empowered. (Tried and tested!) Now picture this - a psychopath driving on Bangalore roads, thinking he's possessed by Michael Schumacher spirit, cuts through the traffic as if it were an apple pie and as luck might have it, you find yourself right in front of this esteemed being, driving comfortably, listening to soothing music. Here comes the blaring music of the honk. You ignore it till you can take no more. If you are an ego maniac yourself, you'll get into a death race with this racing spirit. If not, you'll pull the car to one side and keep glaring as he passes by wishing he were under your Tyre! However there are a few sane ones who'll just let it pass, like a bad thought which deserves no place in your head or your life.
I know for a fact that I fall in the first category. Most of the "less egotistic" people fall in the second. What's common in both these categories? The commonalities lie in the after math. It's a given that the first category has 10% reduced life span! So obviously I am not gonna speak about it! But what I actually would wanna talk about is the feeling that you experience due to an absolute stranger and an absolutely worthless behavior, which sticks to you like a leech and ensures its impact is carried along. The 10 seconds incident is given an importance that ensures it would last for the next 10 hours! Either in form of stories you would tell your people - "there are idiots driving on the roads these days", "who ever gave them their license", "more like license to kill!" or in form of hidden anger that raises its ugly head on innocent beings around you.
What would you do then? I agree venting your frustration on the first person you can victimize is the easiest thing to do. You would feel a lot better about making your self feel better without so much as sparing a thought on the victim. This chain may not stop here. It's almost like a game of passing the parcel. You vent your anger on someone, that someone (if he's as mentally stable as you are) will have to pass it to someone else. So as you can see you have set off a chain reaction!
Its said that no one can bring about a feeling in us that is a stranger to us. If you think someone is an ego-maniac, then a good reason can be coz you have lived this feeling to the fullest! If you recognize someones temper, you surely would have exercised the same at some point in time!
We, as human beings are blessed to experience all the feelings there are to experience. We laugh, we cry, we get angry, we crib. To control them, we have been gifted a very valuable thing that we keep locked for most part of our waking hours - our brain! It has the power to make a fair judgement on what we express and how we express. But since we don't believe in living upto our potential, we keep our minds closed to any form of enlightenment!
A higher level of life is always misunderstood for meekness. Most of us might think the third category of people mentioned earlier, need to grow a spine. While the truth is, the rest of us need to grow a brain! Giving everything equal importance in your life is gonna reduce the level of importance that needs to be given to a certain things in you life that play a vital role in maintaining your vitality. Compromising on this is like selling your core values. Some things in life are more important than the rest. Recognize them and give them the respect they deserve. Where as some things are better if you turned a blinds eye to them coz thats where they rightly belong. Things tend to go bad when the clear demarcation between these two is blurred due our "intelligence". As the world talks about erasing the borders that divide mankind, you need to darken this border between the important and non-existent. Don't waste your energy on the latter for, then the former would turn into the later in no time!
Profound as it sounds, living your life by it you can be really empowered. (Tried and tested!) Now picture this - a psychopath driving on Bangalore roads, thinking he's possessed by Michael Schumacher spirit, cuts through the traffic as if it were an apple pie and as luck might have it, you find yourself right in front of this esteemed being, driving comfortably, listening to soothing music. Here comes the blaring music of the honk. You ignore it till you can take no more. If you are an ego maniac yourself, you'll get into a death race with this racing spirit. If not, you'll pull the car to one side and keep glaring as he passes by wishing he were under your Tyre! However there are a few sane ones who'll just let it pass, like a bad thought which deserves no place in your head or your life.
I know for a fact that I fall in the first category. Most of the "less egotistic" people fall in the second. What's common in both these categories? The commonalities lie in the after math. It's a given that the first category has 10% reduced life span! So obviously I am not gonna speak about it! But what I actually would wanna talk about is the feeling that you experience due to an absolute stranger and an absolutely worthless behavior, which sticks to you like a leech and ensures its impact is carried along. The 10 seconds incident is given an importance that ensures it would last for the next 10 hours! Either in form of stories you would tell your people - "there are idiots driving on the roads these days", "who ever gave them their license", "more like license to kill!" or in form of hidden anger that raises its ugly head on innocent beings around you.
What would you do then? I agree venting your frustration on the first person you can victimize is the easiest thing to do. You would feel a lot better about making your self feel better without so much as sparing a thought on the victim. This chain may not stop here. It's almost like a game of passing the parcel. You vent your anger on someone, that someone (if he's as mentally stable as you are) will have to pass it to someone else. So as you can see you have set off a chain reaction!
Its said that no one can bring about a feeling in us that is a stranger to us. If you think someone is an ego-maniac, then a good reason can be coz you have lived this feeling to the fullest! If you recognize someones temper, you surely would have exercised the same at some point in time!
We, as human beings are blessed to experience all the feelings there are to experience. We laugh, we cry, we get angry, we crib. To control them, we have been gifted a very valuable thing that we keep locked for most part of our waking hours - our brain! It has the power to make a fair judgement on what we express and how we express. But since we don't believe in living upto our potential, we keep our minds closed to any form of enlightenment!
A higher level of life is always misunderstood for meekness. Most of us might think the third category of people mentioned earlier, need to grow a spine. While the truth is, the rest of us need to grow a brain! Giving everything equal importance in your life is gonna reduce the level of importance that needs to be given to a certain things in you life that play a vital role in maintaining your vitality. Compromising on this is like selling your core values. Some things in life are more important than the rest. Recognize them and give them the respect they deserve. Where as some things are better if you turned a blinds eye to them coz thats where they rightly belong. Things tend to go bad when the clear demarcation between these two is blurred due our "intelligence". As the world talks about erasing the borders that divide mankind, you need to darken this border between the important and non-existent. Don't waste your energy on the latter for, then the former would turn into the later in no time!
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