For many, blaming comes easy, easier than
to take responsibility or ownership for your thoughts and actions. It begins
with blaming parents, could be for the decisions made for you because you
either told them to or could not make any yourself. Finally, when these
decisions don't result in what you want, what else but blame the decision
makers?
I didn't think right for a long time. But
then, I realized that even parents were little ones at one time and became
products of their own conditioning and upbringing. What is important to
understand is that their growing years shaped much of their thinking. And they,
with all the love they had, could only do what they knew to be the best at the
time. It was your karma that you had to experience that you did not recognize
as your lesson.
After 18 years and with education behind
you and always in front of you in the school of life, if you don't learn compassion
and understanding of people you live with or are close to, all the riches and
popularity in the world are of no use. The whole world can applaud you for your
worldly success. But what about that spirit that resides within you whom has a
different yardstick for approving of you?
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
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