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Perspective
Perception Defines Life – 2
by Mahesh Sharma
After 1
week, the children were relieved because the game had finally ended.
The teacher asked: “How did you feel while carrying the potatoes
with you for 1 week?” The children let out their frustrations and
started complaining of the trouble that they had to go through
having to carry the heavy and smelly potatoes wherever they go. Then
the teacher told them the hidden meaning behind the game. The
teacher said: “This is exactly the situation when you carry your
hatred for somebody inside your heart. The stench of hatred will
contaminate your heart and you will carry it with you wherever you
go. If you cannot tolerate the smell of rotten potatoes for just 1
week, can you imagine what is it like to have the stench of hatred
in your heart for your lifetime?”
Moral of
the story
Throw
away any hatred for anyone from your heart so that you will not
carry sins for a lifetime. Forgiving others is the best attitude to
take! Love others even if you don’t like them........
3. Guilt
Each of
us has incidents in our life where, if we were to relive them, we
would probably do things differently. This is only natural. We are
all human. As the old saying goes, “To err is human; to forgive
divine.” To be human is to make mistakes. No one is immune. No one
is perfect. If you let go of your past mistakes and errors in
judgment, learning whatever lessons need to be learned from that
experience, then this is healthy.
4. Getting Hurt
Why do we
get hurt? It’s because we are open to be hurt by others, simple,
huh!
5. Self-Pity
Every
life has things to be happy about and things to be unhappy about. If
you want to feel sorry about yourself, you only have to look at your
life to discover many reasons to be unhappy. Likewise if you want to
feel gratitude for what is happening in your life, there are many
reasons to be thankful.
It is a
matter of choice as you see whether to be happy or unhappy which is
resulted out of Self-Pity
6. Fear – What do we fear?
We fear
the unknown, but what is it that brings about the fear in the
unknown, is it not the Uncertainness? Fear puts mental faculties in
reverse order. It slows the mind, defocus us. How do you beat this
fear? By being the fear, focus on what you want to happen, rather
what you don’t want to happen. Fear away the fear and get the
worries away.
In
understanding life force you have an added reason to be aware of your
thoughts. We now realize that not only do negative states of mind affect
our success, but also our wellness and ability to perform at our best.
Our very essence and being is affected by how we think and feel.
Paradoxical
huh! All these things are right in front of us, but we many a times, we
don’t see them. I am concluding with a quote, my all-time favorite –
“It is so simple to be
happy, but it is so difficult to be Simple”
January 15,
2005
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