Life is not a multiple choice question but a DIY project. With every choice we create the life we live and with every decision we design it accordingly.
Yes, Life is like a box of chocolates. But for some reasons, Sometimes, We get the salty dark chocolate with the orange flavor in the middle. Anyway don’t mind. Sometimes we need all the flavours of life to make a tasty dish of it, all the colours of crayons to get the most colourful picture. So, We are just having an existential crisis, sometimes. But move along, folks. Life is a DO IT YOURSELF PROJECT. It is the same graph of ups and downs for each individual but the only difference lies in how well we approach it and handle the goods and bads in a balancing manner. But though I feel I’m way too young to be this old already, My focus on the need to find the blessing in every situation and the habit of gratitude eventually makes me happier and more fulfilled individual. And so is my life!;)
We easily get involved deeply in the grips of negativity just when we get lost in our past or the future. One thought or event pops up and gives rise to chain of negative thoughts. Eventually what happens is that we find ourselves stuck in gloomy tunnel of darkness. But it is essential to understand that this darkness ends with the emergence of light. We only have to earn the strength to look beyond the darkness.
I have a handle on my life, but then it break sometimes and also I never fail to fix it as soon as possible. I am sure, many of us have often wondered about the purpose of our lives. Is it to make money ? Is it to attain fame ? Is it to achieve our material goals ? Is it to satisfy our desires ? Is it academic excellence ? What is the purpose of this life which we enter with empty hands and leave without a penny to take back ? In my own little way, I have tried to look and search for an answer all over the place. After a lot of soul searching, Off late, I think I am beginning to get a hang of the scheme of things. I wanted to share my thoughts with you, so that my understanding can expand and a more comprehensive answer can emerge.
It is imperative that we first become self-aware, aware of our own emotions and thoughts, beliefs and attitudes and behaviour to begin our journey of positivity. Once we know ourselves, we must carefully and consciously make effort to nip in bud the root of negative thought and find immediate positive replacement. This habit has to be developed on purpose through mindfulness when practiced daily. We have to reflect upon our own attitude and thoughts. We must cultivate the practice of gratitude that helps us reflect on life. The past is gone and the future is just every second ahead of THE NOW. By giving too much importance to past or the future which has numerous possibilities beyond our own imagination, we only waste our energy.
I am beginning to understand that the purpose of Life is to experience our life as it unfolds before us. It is to soak in the experience, the lessons that come with it, to grow and mature with the experience. We think ourselves as individuals with distinct and separate lives, separate goals and aspirations and that we have nothing to do with the other. While it is true that we are individuals with distinct lives, what we have forgotten is that we collectively form what we call as ‘humanity’, or, if we broaden our viewpoint, we all collectively form what can be termed as ‘life’ itself.
Let me try to explain myself with the help of examples. Most of us nowadays have our web albums. Let us suppose, we uploaded our pictures of one particularly delightful vacation with our family. Can we sum up our experience as the underlying essence of all the pictures in this album ? What if we had an album of each and every event in our life, whether small or big ? Then wouldn’t our life be the sum of the essence of each album ?
Let us now expand our viewpoint. Let us hypothetically imagine that the web has a conscious and intelligent mind made up of the collective intelligence of all the people connected online. Is it possible that the web would experience the essence of the numerous experiences of individual netizens and their web albums ? Now, what if there is a collective conscious humanity ? What if there is a collective conscious Life ?
Then, our individual experiences shall be part of Life’s experiences.. Our joy, sorrow, success, failure, health, disease, pride, all shall be life’s own emotions.. But why does life has to experience failures, death, disease, negative emotions like anger, jealousy, greed through us ? Probably because life grows and evolves as a whole combining success and failure, disease and good health, greed and altruism.
Let us imagine ‘Life’ as a human body and we humans as cells of different organs. We all want success, money and fame. What if all of us, cells, want to be heart cells. No one wants to be a liver, kidney or stomach. Then probably our dear ‘Life’ would be more like Hulk, with all those hearts pumping enormous amounts of blood constantly. Life’s blood pressure would break the barometer!
So life needs all the colours in its rainbow and all the tones in its music. Each of us have a purpose. Each of us have our own role to play, our own experiences to add up to the experience of Life..
What about our own little lives? Our own life is very much a part of the Grand Life.. The more we complain, the more we worry about small irrelevant issues, the more bitter we make Grand Life. It comes back to us.. Obviously. Since Grand Life is us!
What if we embrace our current situation without remorse, with utter love ? What if we are kind and compassionate to each other and teach our children the same values ? What if we don’t do great grand things, but keep doing simple acts of kindness and compassion in our daily lives. What if we seek happiness, not in possessing more, but in thanking the universe for what we have already been given without asking to keep our mind, body and soul healthy ? Then, we shall be fulfilling the ‘Purpose of Life’ !!!
So It’s that our life is a DO IT YOURSELF PROJECT that we have to craft it in the best way in all possible details and make the best use of it and finetune it often and very often on ourselves in whatever best way it needed to be with an aesthetic sense and a class and enjoy our existence for its wonderful gifts to us. ❤🌹😎
– Manimozhi Ilango
My Fatty Brain Cell 