Some days are like a light, happy breeze blowing ...everything
just flows without effort. Kind of raises our expectations for the
future...when suddenly, you wake up to events not really to your liking and the
stress begins. And with that, we start to magnify the small issues on that
particular day. For some, the stress and the bad mood can persist beyond just one day, too.
In Hindi, there is a saying "sab din hote na ek
samaan". How true! All the days in our life
cannot be the same. And that's exactly why we are told all the time that we can
only change our responses to events.
I am not saying
we should be like saints, though enlightenment can and should be the ultimate
goal. We have to really work at it, gradually and with focus.
But on a daily
basis, we do have to come back to the merit of accepting what confronts us
before looking at what can be done about it or whether ANYTHING can be done at all. There is
always a sense of wisdom in letting sleeping dogs lay sometimes but not
always. That is perhaps the key to improving our days.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
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