The power of Perception

Did you notice this pic..It's so faint that we don't know what it is until we see carefully. Similar to our perceptions. One of my colleagues shared an incident with me which came to her from mouth to mouth.

A traveller was in the flight and waiting for the passenger in the next seat to occupy. The guy walks in and he appears sophisticated, well dressed and groomed and sits next to the window The traveler thought this guy seems to be good enough to strike a conversation. and tries to initiate the conversation. The guy doesnt respond. The traveler thought to himself " What an ill mannered person could he be?" After a short while, the airhostess, walks in and offers a drink to the guy and he just waves his hand to say no not even looking at the air hostess. The traveler is shocked and thinks to himself" How rude?"


After a few hours of journey, the flight lands and there is an announcement." All the passengers who are flying to XYZ place and have to fly through so and so airways please unboard the flight immediately as the time left is too less" The guy walks to the traveler and says" Could you please excuse me, I need to get out of the flight because I lost my wife and children in an accident in the XYZ place"


One unfortunate and unavoidable thing in life is that we are so bound to form perceptions about people that we cant live without them. If we have no perceptions we may end up feeling low about ourselves. Based on my observations and Incidents we form perceptions because of  :

• Fears and Insecurities
• Our expectations
• What somebody told us
• We dont know what it is like 
• We dont want to think
• We are happy this way because it doesnot add pressure

 It's been so easy to write but too hard to deal . A life without perceptions would make life so docile that its hard to live in the world of modern times.

Life makes becomes so pleasant without perception. Imagine a life where you don't have to worry about what your neighbours think about your friends, you don't have to worry about what your boss will think about your work but you give your 100%, you don't have to have sleepless nights, you can get healthier and peaceful.

But its not possible Is it? More to go...

The Awakening

This is quite strange that there is so much of energy we have in our life when we work, we struggle  to keep up to our work commitments, to make time for our the ones we love, to be ahead of the race in the society, to cover our own inner insecurities, to be able to project some thing which we always wanted to be, to be able to live smiling every day, to be able to enjoy the luxuries everyday so that we can forget the daily pressures from peers, parents, siblings, friends and so called making up for what we lost. We sleep with no smile on face, wake up with no peace of mind, we sleep with our legs in our stomach, hugging the pillows for the comfort, we keep searching for the special one who can understand before we hardly utter a word, we fake a smile with a perception of facing the world, we cry when we are alone and some times we cry within , and sometimes we don't even know that we are crying until we find a shoulder, we sleep scared that we cant ope our heart to any one, we eat food as if we gotto run and we wouldn't wake up . We wake up only to realize that all the pain and suffering we went through is only like a chase of mirage. Its not real. The reality is in the heart. The happiness is in the heart. The true reason which would make us happy was not what we were running behind, not to live upto someone else's expectation, not to pretend being what we wanted to be. Its in the hearty smile we gave when we learnt some thing about our self, when we shared our small mistakes with some one and yet slept in peace, when we ate food on time, when we played with our friends and when we smiled the whole day without any flickering of our thoughts.

The unfortunate reality of life is that we do not learn this until we live in a state of illusion for a period of time . The day we wake up, we see ourselves neck deep in the swamp . Only because we woke up we are safe, else you wouldn't have ever opened our eyes.

The question we need to ask ourselves is..

" In this world of unlimited dreams and innumerable options, do I still want to live in the illusions of - control, happiness, power or do I want to be wide awake so that I can live life fully and in reality.

Quote Repeated.  " Yesterday is history, Tomorrow is a Mystery but today is a present"

Did You Notice!!???

 Did You ever notice ?
We are unhappy because we imagine what we want to happen over and over again, we hope the most positive results out of that, we live partially in the same world  but if it doesn't materialize, we remain unhappy and then the world seems upside down. We look at our own faults and the faults of the people around us. Some times, the most loved ones. The reality is nothing stops because of that. Life just goes on usually. We are just a speck of the world. Even if we were the most special ones in the world our charm would get withered away one day. So, the best way to live is not to expect anything from what you do. But the obstacle is..its not as easy to implement  as to say. That's the catch. If we don't expect we cant live life in this competitive world, if we live without expectations then we live like a cow.. Ummpph!!! To be able to be balanced is the trick . The world we can see is one hand..the world we imagine is on the other hand within ourselves. Its so tough to live with the world without one within.

Illusion

It is very hard to come to conclusion in life about anything... What you think exists, doesn't exist and some times what you can hardly even imagine appears in front of your eyes. Notice this: for anything which would happen in our life, we imagine or expect or hope or anticipate or wish that things would happen and we live in that illusion of happiness or sadness. If its happy news, we love ourselves, people around us, cherish the moments we spent and if we dont like the news we hate ourselves, we tend to make excuses for the loss, blame our parents or ourselves and every thing else under the sky. We get into a security blanket, shut our eyes ears and mind and live in the same world for years..some times until the end of life. What ever the news is, if you notice carefully, its only we who react cause we want some thing to happen in life and any difference from what we want we react . In both the cases, its an illusion not reality. To come out of the illusion is the challenge...whats the way out of it?? I don't know.. I guess that's the reason we have so many things happening in the world

Thoughts and Feelings

 

Its so strange that thoughts are just like cobwebs. We never know when they start but they just grow until you realise that they exist. They just pile up just like the piled up files in the P C and they occupy so much of space in your mind that when you actually start looking at it, you realize how much of time, effort and space you have wasted in your life for such minute semi existent virtual body. Though true that thoughts often turn into actions and actions turn into character, if you glance at the thoughts which just keep getting generated every day...all you can do is sigh!!The strangest thing about all these minute spark lets is they build or they ruin your life. What ever it is! Its very hard to decide if we run thoughts or thoughts run us cos if you decide to drive your life through a particular stream of thoughts..that itself  is a thought. As depicted in"Inception" every thought has an origin.  Some times, the origin lies in the root of our life and we run behind those thoughts for a life time. We also tend to have our children follow the same thoughts. No one challenges them. If challenged thats a thought , if not challenged thats a thought too. If you notice..these specks of time.. originate and build yet another life for FEELINGS. These play with us not just before we existed but also until the after life. Greed, lust, anger, joy and depression all of them are built based on the thoughts and feelings. Og gosh isnt it complex.

Why!!???

It is quite strange that all of us think so different about the same thing, we know that the same thing can be looked into in different views, yet we fight for the way we think. Is that the power of thought? Power of habit of thinking so? We are so comfortable with the way we think we know that its not true but we wouldn't want to come out of it. What would happen if we break the habit? We will be happy because we learn some thing new. What will happen to the practical situations and responsibilities we have shouldered? If we work our way over them, wouldn't we become selfish? If we become selfish..what would be the situation if everybody in the family.colony or society or world think so? How is this equilibrium of thoughts maintained across the world? Is there any one who can make time for these? Should we really make time? Are we all getting into the cobweb of life so much that we don't know ??We know that all what appears to be need not exist..all what exists need not appear.yet we are so much beyond happiness, shy, lust etc.. that we forget that there is a world within ourselves??

The tale of unexpressed love

My Heart Beat! You brought me back to life when I just saw you.
You made me feel my breath when I first met you..
Life turned beautiful in your company..
All the thorns turned into roses when you smiled at me
And you made my life a bed of roses
Wish I could hold the minutes we spent with each other looking into each other’s eyes When the air stood still and the earth knew no years
The life was colorful with our dreams
And we knew nothing but love and we shared our love every day and night
There came a day when the world brought hallucinations into our lives
 Darling I am not myself any more…
I can’t wait Life is moving so fast that I can’t control
All my past is pricking me in the heart
All our future is going dark
 Don’t know what I am doing and why
But every second is just pulling me in as swamp with all its murk
I have not expressed my love yet to you but
The life doesn’t just seem to listen to me any more
The princess of my dreams I brought you into a hut
The last thing I could do was lie in your lap and
feel my heart beat again With blood shed of my body
 and my heart crying in pain
 I couldn’t say much than one thing
And I knew I still love you and my breath diminished
But I know my dear that I still love you
From the bottom of my heart though I stopped breathing
Marriage was only how this world named my love
Children were only how they counted my happiness
But foolish world doesn’t know that my love grew  stronger
even after my body was burnt
 My heart beat, I love you from the soul of my soul
From the heart of my heart
As long as the sun shines And as long as the tides rise
Stupid world still thinks that what it sees is what all exists
 It still lives in an illusion of people, bonds and things
Pity them cos they don’t know That all the truth in the world
 is only love
 Its only love which ignites the sun and makes it shine
 Poor world  roams around it with different worlds with in