You might have noticed but let me still point this out to you. A child at its early stages of life is exuberant , alive & joyful. But as the child increases with age the aliveness, joyfulness & exuberance diminishes at the cost where the child had experience something that we call life.
But still if you ask me do I want to be a child again. I might say no. I would really wish to look young as I was back then. But still it would be a no. The reason been I have learned and understood life so much as compared to the child I was then. Whether it be sad memories, or ways I have hurt people in my life or let's just say the way I have hurt myself. But I also given me an insight about how much wiser, broader, empathetic and deeper I have become now.
I have become comfortable in my own skin.
As human beings we are so naïve that we run behind success, or let's say running the rat race just so we feel that we are valued. Is that a definition of a good life?. or what is the definition of success?
Let's take an example
When our body becomes pleasant we like to call it "health".
When our body becomes extremely pleasant we like to call it " pleasure ".
Similarly when our mind becomes pleasant we like to call it " peace" & extremely pleasant we call it " joy" .
Emotions become pleasant we like to call it " love" & extremely pleasant we call it "compassion".
Similarly when life energies become pleasant we call it "blissfulness" & extremely pleasant we call it "ecstasy ".
Success derives if the surroundings around us become pleasant . And only for success or let me put it this way in order to make the surroundings pleasant there is a challenge or the need for co-operation of all the forces around. If all the forces around does not fall in place no matter how much you struggle you . People will still like to call you unsuccessful.
But again it all about one's perspective in how you define yourself. Not what people around you think .
The only qualification that parents ,teachers, mentors have is they just landed here a few years earlier & they just know a few survival tricks than a child , a student or a mentee.
& you are still learning.
The indispensable quality to live a good life is courage .
There is always a compulsiveness or inability to let things go .
We all struggle with that even after knowing at some level we need to let it go but still hanging on to it even after it is haunting us.
It's never easy to change one's own ideas but change is always constant. It will always keep happening.
There is a need for a certain amount of courage to allow someone or something to trample one's ideas.
Fear is a very powerful motivator that drives to self preservation. As there is a famous saying :" If you think you are too small to make a difference, you haven't spend a night with a mosquito".
True success & a good life is all about perspective. It about how you shift your perspective. it's all about how you learn to see yourself as continuous with everyone & everything.
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