Whatever happens, Happens for good

I was always inclined towards thinking "whatever happens, happens for good'. For many years it helped me live without worrying/thinking too much. Smooth life. But now after seeing some recent events in my life my belief it has increased multi folds. Even if I had planned my life and had all the ability to create it I don't think I would have made it like the way it turned out by itself!

Being Righteous - the biggest killer of love

Yesterday night I did not get sleep. So instead of forcing myself to sleep I got up at 5:30 and went to jog.

After finishing the jog, I sat on the banks of Ulsoor lake and started to think about my last blog entry - Universal Love. When writing the blog I was so much called by that possibility of love. But afterward I got back to normal routine of me, me & me. Today when I was thinking of it, it occurred to me that when I have 'self righteousness' love gets lost. I cannot love someone or something (including work) when I am full of I am right and it/him/her shouldn't be that way. Just by realizing this, I won't be easily giving up being right. It's almost like second nature. Only me enrolling myself into the possibility will help. So just as it is hard for me to readily accept others as they are and what they do, so it is for them to mend their ways to be acceptable by me.

Thinking all these I got up and started walking. While on the way I told myself, 'Just be okay with whatever people do. There is nothing called right or wrong. Whatever they do is what they do. Their actions are based on their basic nature'. I remembered an example my uncle gave me once. He said ' Cotton is soft and white. If you burn it it will be brittle and black. You have successfully changed its property (and behavior), but it is no more cotton'. How true! You cannot have apple and the pie too. We are like 'I want X in you but not Y'. Life is a package deal - you get all or none. But what we do is to try to customize it - all the time. We forget that if we take something out of life, it's no more Life.

So as I started heading home I made up my mind that today I will live such that everything is okay with me. It felt good. I came home. As I was parking my bike I heard loud and irritating noise of drilling machine my neighbour is using to renovate his house - something that has been going on for 2 months. Immediate thought I had was ' What the heck! It's 6:30 am and this guy already started that damn machine. Grrrr...'

So much for the noble thought that had crept in just few min before. One external disturbance and everything went for a toss! Wah re mera mann!