AN OPPOSITE VIEW TOWARDS LIFE!!


Life is full of opposites, For each thing in this universe, there is an opposite value. Life is followed by death, death gives birth to new life. Happiness is followed by sadness, sadness gives way to happiness, Sleep is followed by wakefulness and wakefulness gives way to sleep, temptation is followed by satiety, and satiety paves way for a new temptation, Success is followed by failure and failure gives way to success, However dark the night...it is always followed by dawn.....

My point of saying all these things is....we always expect the "GOOD" things from the lot mentioned above..... We would invariably always want happiness,success,power and we would obviously be upset if we end up getting the opposite values....sadness,failure and the likes....
And Life is no lottery, life doesnt give us every good thing just like that.....You can compare it with a situation like this.... How would it be if there was no day at all...and only night....always....we cant have such a situation...similarly we cant have every good thing in life.

I recently read something about this....it says....Most of the time, life throws unexpected things and surprises at you.....most of which you do not want at all. The correct way to deal with such a situation is....accept the opposite with a smile....accept sadness if you are not happy and still manage to smile...

Consider it this way....Life is a mean, cruel, selfish, unfair thing which wants to see whether you can withstand what it does to you....which wants to see whether you have the endurance to stand tall in any suffering which it inflicts upon you.... If you do, If you pass this test...Life rewards you.... and when you know you have passed this test...you know that you have achieved everything in life....

When all your wishes aren't fulfilled.... life expects you to be sad, to regret...to be not content....
Don't give life all these things....life doesnt give you everything....we must do the same...we must not give life what it expects from us...do the opposite...accept the opposite....be content with whatever you get....
of course....if you are happy with something...you will not go around searching for the opposite and be sad just because you want the opposite... The only ultimate wish of any person is happiness....and happiness is a state of mind which depends entirely on our mindset.
The greatest person is the one who manages to smile in difficult and testing times.

I am no great person, nor am I God so that I can manage to accept everything that comes my way and be happy and casual about it....It is difficult to NOT CRIB about anything and to NOT WISH for anything in life...Not just me, everyone else too, for that matter is not that great.
But we can try to implement some of the above mentioned philosophical and hypothetical stuff.....and try to be happy always.


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ABHISHEK S SARDA
07-06-2010

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