Are you better?

“I want to be happy, I really want to be happy! “, isn’t that a desperate cry from almost all the people around us? We are a generation of broken hearts and broken people – a very true statement but who is responsible for it? Us, right? We know the cause, we know the solution yet we ponder over our past and cling to that grief. Is that healthy? Of course not! Funnily, we all know this yet fail to apply it in our lives. Let’s not make other’s opinion our reality.


I was speaking to a friend of mine the other day and in that conversation she said the following that keeps resonating in my mind, “If our past would have mattered and been our reality then we wouldn’t be waking up to a new tomorrow”. This is such a beautiful way to shed light to the blessings we receive in our ‘present’ . It does not matter how glorious you were in the past or how gruesome you were, are you that now? We often hear stories wherein people having a good sense of law and ethics commit crimes and on the other hand there are criminals who act out of kindness after having realised their mistakes. Is the criminal happy or the other man who just committed the crime? Happiness lies within, it’s on us to choose the right path by tapping into the right memory and learning from it.


The following is something I heard from a great person and I truly believe in it and this has helped me mould my life better, ” So, if the only way we can hold on to somebody is by believing for many lifetimes we have been stuck together, it’s a horrible way to live together. ‘I am with you now because I want to be with you’, this is a beautiful way to be with somebody, isn’t it? What happened yesterday is of no consequence. We hear people say how they miss their school life, student life and refer to them as the golden years of their life. But was it so? When we were there we were tensed, hated our exams, hated our teachers, didn’t want to go to school and always wanted to grow up soon and live the life that we are living now. Sure, they are golden years because we don’t have to revisit that now! If we feel that we are living a golden life at present, isn’t that great instead of clinging onto those old, so called fond memories of ours? Don’t feel great about it after its over. If you are feeling that way when it’s on, that’s great. So, don’t waste your time digging into the past. This memory of ours is crippling us, it is not allowing you to use your mind as an instrument of penetration, an instrument to open up the dimensions of life. Don’t relate to people as figures or memories from the past, see their values for what they are now, not for what they were somewhere, sometime.”


What you have made yourself into, now, is important because every human being errs but that doesn’t scar his or her soul. We learn and grow from our mistakes and deserve every single shot at forgiveness no matter how grave the crime was. To all those who are seeking forgiveness, forgive yourself first, seek peace within yourself and then grow from those ashes into a beautiful and wonderful being. And for those who are at the edge of forgiving others and still can’t make up their mind, remember that you too were forgiven once; this will lead you to the path of peace and happiness. Remember, the mouth can spit venom or mend a broken soul.


Focus on,

Who are you now?

And

Be better than good

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