Sudhir Mittal's Blog - Posts Tagged "life-is-beautiful"
When Life Doesn't Seem Beautiful...
But the point is, whether or not it may seem to us in that way, nevertheless life is beautiful. We happen to find it wrong, or sometimes even worse, when we put the limits to it; or say we draw the lines.
In current times, so much emphasize is being given to this term 'Life' that it is presented as nothing less than a phenomena. Wherever any of us can possibly become expressive about our experiences, we think, we call and we telltale it as 'LIFE'. We trust it's all. But do we yet understand its true gravity in full? Invariably our position in life depends upon the way we understand it. Let us see an example.
Children are usually believed to be happier than grownups. If life is supposed to be beautiful, you agree, happiness is its first prerequisite. Did you ever wonder why children go happier? Even while they are least educated, most dependents, always doing silly things, and having least consciousness about their comforts; they are all merry-go-round ever. If you examine in this way, they have sufficient reasons to become unhappy. But there is certainly something which they do, we the grownups miss at.
Do you know why it happens the way it does with us? Just go now and ask a child around you, "Is life beautiful?" You will be amazed that he will not understand your question. Even if you explain, he will not understand what the damn 'life' is; nor will he comprehend your fascination about 'beautiful'. He won't have definitions, parameters, benchmarks; but he is already doing the best out of it - That he is 'Enjoying' it; rather fullest to your envy. In that moment you can imagine yourself being an intelligent salesman working in an expensive cars' showroom. One evening an illiterate rich man arrives and puts his thumb on the most luxurious car on display. You go on and on explaining the most advance features of that car, but being illiterate he doesn't comprehend any. Secretly in your heart you ridicule your customer, but merely trusting your words, he simply signs the check and drives out with the car. Looking from behind, you almost sulk. Though it's you knowing best about the buttons in the dashboard, but it's that man who is enjoying the car as a whole.
Do you catch the point? It's not the affordability, but it is 'enjoyment'. Coming roundabout to our example, children are ones who are least bothered about the 'buttons'. If you give them a toy car, they won't ask you how much speed it runs, or how much it costs, but they will simply start enjoying it; that too, then and there only.
The fundamental reason why children are happier than grown up is that, they have very short memory and even shorter vision. Let me explain this. Even if a mother, out of rage over something, scolds her child too badly; the latter forgets the offence and becomes sweet with the former in no time. About vision, children do not worry for the next year, next week, tomorrow or even following minute. They are happy with what they have in their hands at the moment and they make best of it. I repeat, they are happy with what they have in their hands at the moment.
This is what makes the life beautiful for children. Is it possible for the grownups too? Oh! What a thing which children can do and we can't (pardon pissing in the bed).
If you don't see your life beautiful, take the 'key' from here. Be happy with what you have in your hands at the moment and make best of it. Happiness never diminishes from your pocket till you're filling others' pockets with it. The way it happens is; it always spills out.
And as far as the bigger matter of 'LIFE' is concerned, it's all your error if you don't find it beautiful. Life is ever beautiful. It can't be that a rose flower stops giving fragrance even when it is scorched in the sun. It's not you who put the fragrance into the flower, but you can certainly smell it. And believe this; it's not you who make life beautiful, for it is already beautiful ever. You can only realize it to be so. And that you must.
In current times, so much emphasize is being given to this term 'Life' that it is presented as nothing less than a phenomena. Wherever any of us can possibly become expressive about our experiences, we think, we call and we telltale it as 'LIFE'. We trust it's all. But do we yet understand its true gravity in full? Invariably our position in life depends upon the way we understand it. Let us see an example.
Children are usually believed to be happier than grownups. If life is supposed to be beautiful, you agree, happiness is its first prerequisite. Did you ever wonder why children go happier? Even while they are least educated, most dependents, always doing silly things, and having least consciousness about their comforts; they are all merry-go-round ever. If you examine in this way, they have sufficient reasons to become unhappy. But there is certainly something which they do, we the grownups miss at.
Do you know why it happens the way it does with us? Just go now and ask a child around you, "Is life beautiful?" You will be amazed that he will not understand your question. Even if you explain, he will not understand what the damn 'life' is; nor will he comprehend your fascination about 'beautiful'. He won't have definitions, parameters, benchmarks; but he is already doing the best out of it - That he is 'Enjoying' it; rather fullest to your envy. In that moment you can imagine yourself being an intelligent salesman working in an expensive cars' showroom. One evening an illiterate rich man arrives and puts his thumb on the most luxurious car on display. You go on and on explaining the most advance features of that car, but being illiterate he doesn't comprehend any. Secretly in your heart you ridicule your customer, but merely trusting your words, he simply signs the check and drives out with the car. Looking from behind, you almost sulk. Though it's you knowing best about the buttons in the dashboard, but it's that man who is enjoying the car as a whole.
Do you catch the point? It's not the affordability, but it is 'enjoyment'. Coming roundabout to our example, children are ones who are least bothered about the 'buttons'. If you give them a toy car, they won't ask you how much speed it runs, or how much it costs, but they will simply start enjoying it; that too, then and there only.
The fundamental reason why children are happier than grown up is that, they have very short memory and even shorter vision. Let me explain this. Even if a mother, out of rage over something, scolds her child too badly; the latter forgets the offence and becomes sweet with the former in no time. About vision, children do not worry for the next year, next week, tomorrow or even following minute. They are happy with what they have in their hands at the moment and they make best of it. I repeat, they are happy with what they have in their hands at the moment.
This is what makes the life beautiful for children. Is it possible for the grownups too? Oh! What a thing which children can do and we can't (pardon pissing in the bed).
If you don't see your life beautiful, take the 'key' from here. Be happy with what you have in your hands at the moment and make best of it. Happiness never diminishes from your pocket till you're filling others' pockets with it. The way it happens is; it always spills out.
And as far as the bigger matter of 'LIFE' is concerned, it's all your error if you don't find it beautiful. Life is ever beautiful. It can't be that a rose flower stops giving fragrance even when it is scorched in the sun. It's not you who put the fragrance into the flower, but you can certainly smell it. And believe this; it's not you who make life beautiful, for it is already beautiful ever. You can only realize it to be so. And that you must.
