The Wait

Every moment seems longer than it is, when you are waiting. As the wait prolongs, so does the pain with it. Many times it comes to a point of lifelessness, your entire life losses its meaning. Man panics thinking, if the wait is forever. When the wait is complete, he wonders was the wait that long after! He forgets what he had been through. He forgets the greatest lessons he had learnt. He moves on to another wait. It looks like we are all stuck in lop of wait. A loop that repeats itself sometimes overlapping the other. Yet always man looks at the silver lining; hoping the wait to complete. Why he doesn’t appreciate the dark clouds? For they have always been with him. They have nourished him from the childhood. Does it make sense to wait?

Assorted Articles from ‘Sunday Times’

Ones physical well being is a reflection of one’s mental well being. Fields of study like ‘body language’, ‘Hand-writing Analysis’ are just an extension of it, though in an opposite direction. I had been to couple of article that said the same in different words and voices.

‘Sense and Spirituality’ article by Roy says “Being spiritual isn’t an option. You were born spiritual and everything you do is spiritual... For centuries believers in organized religion have been trying to recruit and convert them to their faith. The bottom line for them is simply good business and nothing else.”

An excerpt from the book ‘The power of mind’ by Gilchrest, says it all how man’s mind work and how he could make a way out of his agony.

“Those who are ignorant of the law of mind and how it works often remark ‘I wasn’t thinking of becoming sick, or having an automobile accident, or losing my job.’ They believe that they are tossing the whole subject off in this way, they have made their point. We never say to another ‘You just think you are sick’, nor ‘think you are well and you will be.’ If illness and pain are pictured as experience, they are seen to be due to beliefs which are heavily laden by wrong kind of emotions. Fault finding, nagging and bickering are ways of thinking due to emotions which produce all the ills man is prone to get. If attitude coming from others set your teeth on edge, how much greater is the effect upon those who engage themselves? It makes their headachy, nervous and sickly. Those who tell themselves that are justified in hating someone who had been cruel, unfair or despicable are yet to learn that hating harms only the hater. Thus love your enemy.”

There was an utterly confusing article ‘Queue-Ki line bhi kabhi bahut hai’ by Karkaria, thou I liked the first to lines that said it all:

“No queues please, we are Indian. With sex, we indulge in it, but condemn it. Our attitude for queue is exactly opposite...”

She speaks about disorganization in Indian cites (Somebody should tell her the disorientation in her writing!). With the population of over a billion and equally diverse culture and dialects to add to it, how could somebody think of organization? To bring an change in a society that is as large and having civilization of 5000 years deep rooted and arrogance at the tip, even to bring a minor change to effect would require generations.

A walk though dependency to Interdependency

As per ‘Steven Covey’, in his book ‘Seven Habits of highly effective people’, there are three stages in man’s development. Firstly is the ‘Stage of Dependence’ where he is dependent on somebody always. This is where we all start the Journey of life. Slowly he learns to take control of his life. He starts being responsible for his action. The second stage is of the ‘Stage of Independence’. Like always his actions are guided by his thoughts, good thoughts breed good action and evil breeds evil. He frees himself from his folks, slowly increases his self-esteem. This is the stage where he learns the greatest lessons of life. He is in total control of his activities. Yet he feels incomplete and confused. Finally, he moves to the ‘Stage of Interdependence’. In short it is the phase of ‘Living Life in its Completeness’. Now, his actions influence not only his life but also others. Their response in turns influences his future actions. He feels complete; the missing blocks are filled by the people around him. The soul secret of life lies in 3 stages of life, which leads to one complete lifetime. To feel this one has to live every moment from birth to death