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Monday, 4 November 2013

The ebb and flow of life.

Sometimes, you wake up with a feeling of low spirits for no apparent reason. You start wondering why. It may be a subtle feeling of discouragement you feel, when you are feeling worn out. Or it could be a combination of an unknown thought of the subconscious mind. The fact is that there is an ebb and flow to life. There are highs and lows, sweet and bitter, may be a gray or sunny day, but all these are tiny packages of our day to day life. If it were only sunshine, we would get bored of it. It may be a feeling that crept in, due to many reasons, that you are unable to figure out. 

 You don't want to let that feeling linger on and spoil your day. You try to resist it and immediately try to fix it. You can let it hit you, experience it fully by sinking into it and then slowly coming out of it. You have to learn facing those feeling, by writing about them, talking about them or even laughing at them. The more we resist it, it enslaves you. Try to acknowledge the feelings and learn to get out of it, by experiencing it and then shaking out of it. 


 More than anything, make it an opportunity to love yourself more ,love whatever you are doing, and all that you hold close to your heart. Learn to accept what is “normal” and practice accepting the highs, the lows and everything in between. It might be an insight to what you have been going through and that narrow line between, to balance your life. Life is always, one thing after another. The key word here is understanding and making a striking balance. When some thought comes to haunt you, try to think of all the positive things it could give. Trying to get a sense of balance and harmony at some point, in any aspect of life will soon turn to disharmony and loss of balance; if you try to hold on and freeze that moment forever. It is foolishness to do it and will lead to only pain and suffering. To a sense of self pity and negativity. 


 The waves,they come in, break and recede. Then they roll on in again. Instead of fighting and being tumbled painfully ashore, feel the waves coming and ride them out. Rarely, you find yourself resting peacefully on tranquil waters gazing at the glassy reflection of beauty. Seldom does life give us the change "to be" without any challenges. Life is something that ebbs and flows. The turbulent waters never bestow restlessness, but reveal darkest recesses of our heart that has gone unnoticed or ignored for far too long. The transitions and challenges of life are indispensable. 


 It requires little effort to perceive the joys of life as a contribution to personal blessings, but it is much more difficult to perceive the opportunities of joy in the turbulent waters of life. To be human does not mean simply to receive what life hands us. To be human is to actively assert one’s own self onto life's challenges to make it a unique one.

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