'I'.....

Its amazing how it is so easy for us to spot whats wrong with someone else...while equally or even more difficult to understand and accept what might have gone wrong with us.....and when one fine day, truth dawns, its a HUGE and bitter pill to swallow.....

This may sound like one of those rants about self-revelation and self- realisation albeit, I believe it is one of the most stark truths in life.......and ironically we revel in the thought that nothing exists beyond us.....when one fine day, the ground beneath slips and it is understood that whatever existed, was totally beyond us......

The root cause of all problems is the individual called 'I'......someone once put it very beautifully when he said....."A for Apple..." and he drew an apple, "B for Banana..." and he drew a banana.....then came I...." I for 'I'...." ...he gave the pencil to one of his students and said...."draw 'I' ..."...the student drew a body...." but that's B for body...." he said....then the student drew a face....." but that's F for face ..." he said...." When you are not even in a position to define 'I', are you secure enough to credit this 'I' with all the happiness and all the pain that your body undergoes??" he asked......

I am on this philosophical rampage because I managed to see it today...that somewhere along life, we all tend to focus on the 'I' which is not even definable....we use this 'I' as a shield to protect our own insecurities.....the key to this is to throw open our own insecurities to ourselves....life would be much simpler then....at least we would be able to work on to overcome these insecurities ...even if not overcome, we could always make them inconsequential by moving beyond 'I' and thinking about the 'Big Picture'....

I strongly feel that it is possible to live an easier life by considering another's goodness and your own faults. It would help you focus on just your own faults and set them right....you simply would not have the time to focus on the other person's faults....

a thought, a journey waiting to begin....

Until next time.....