I have read a story in my childhood. It is about 5 blind men describing the elephant by their touch as they come across different parts of an elephant in their life journeys. Even when you show the same thing to different people,
their version completely differs based on their experience, view and imagination. But we believe, our version is a reality, other person is completely wrong and lacks the basic understanding of things. Before you argue, before you fight,
Before you raise the voice, just think for one second that, they are a completely different person with a different perspective, which is right to them as your version is to you. This simple realisation can save ourselves from the ego and fight in future with others we face.
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Self Inflicted Pain
You’d never believe me if I tell you that whatever worries you have is created by you. You are confused ah ? Let’s say there is a small strain in your new dress , You see that
and worried that its big thing and keeps on thinking about it. But as you are getting late, you decided to go with it. Now you assume your day is spoiled because of that, You cautiously keep on looking at it all day and suppose if one of your friends,asked about it casually. That’s it ! you scold yourself in mind for not changing the dress before itself when you saw that, your friend might have forgotten about it even before asking,But It added fuel to your worries, You keep on hiding it and became successful in making that molehill to mountain of stress. Finally you reach home and get rid of that dress.
When you think about the day, All you remember is that innocent strain,which made your day spoiled . But come on , Think once again, Is that strain spoiled your day or you yourself did ?
You could have ignored it and when your friends found that , You would have taken it light, So key thing you yourself thought that’s big thing, so it eventually turned so. Like this strain,we see many small problems in our life with magnifying glass, unknowingly we are living in the self-inflicted painful environment, thinking it as fate. Are we going to change or again going to put all blame in fate and will wait for it to change till we die !!!
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Perception
Everything that happens to you is result of your perception. The way you perceive things is different from others. That’s why when same thing happens to two persons, one see that as a hurdle, while other see that as an opportunity.
When you see that as a hurdle, your mind make it more difficult than it actually is. But the moment you see that as opportunity , your mind works on it to utilize it fully. That’s how few succeed but few fail miserably.
However hard your life is, change your perception, Let’s say , you perceive someone as very important part of your life, you just cling to them emotionally and be dependent on them every single minute but unfortunately they leave you alone, you thinks that world has come to an end. You cry, struggle to get them back in your life. Now think again, who’s fault is this? That person who left you ? Or your perception about their position in your life ?
Let’s say, you had plan to go to office early , but you missed the alarm and slept for some more time. Suddenly you woke up with sigh . You perceive this as big mistake of your’s. You scold yourself for being irresponsible and got irritated. Now you end up having irritating day. But imagine if you just change your perception and think, now you got nice sleep you will be fresh the whole day and end up finishing all the task actively .Same will became reality. So the choice is in your hand. Change the perception and see the wonder it brings.