There are sometimes I feel this world is made up of grabbing grasping people who simply don’t see the fact that no matter how much they collect materialistic things, their real wealth is a lot different than what they are left with at the end of the day of life. In the past two years I have seen so much of deceit, treachery and dishonesty…that I begin to wonder at the values of life. Mine haven’t wavered a mite centimeter from what they were …in fact they have strengthened a lot more because of what I see anti what I stand for. I always used to marvel how people stand up in times of adversity…always marveled how people had the strength to love and do what is right even when at the brink of death. Seen through personal experience how my uncle had the gumption to give up what was his wealth…his family…tied up all the knots …settled financial issues …and said goodbye as cheerfully as he could to his loved ones. He died of lung cancer. Ironically he was a non smoker.
What is this strength, the sheer power to alter and define our lives? Always been questioning the source and despite all science and despite all explanations I still reach one conclusion-MY GOD. The supreme power the one who is in us and we are in him. One in the other till nothing more is indecipherable.
It’s so easy to forsake him and so difficult to keep in touch. Is it? I think not. The moment we have problems in life most of us run to him for help. And the moment good times return we waltz off like its no ones business. Getting back to what I was talking about. I find people such ostriches nowadays. They feel that they have become professional in manipulations and using others for ulterior ends that they are totally oblivious to the fact that no one can be made a fool of unless they choose to allow the other to do so. Isn’t that such a sad thing. I choose to let someone use me because I don’t want to oppose that person because I love that person, I care for that person. It’s sad to se someone negotiating with you negotiating for material things you would have gladly given without the scheming and negotiation. Someone said it right …love is a negotiation…life is a negotiation…Im beginning to see the veracity of that statement.
Not a very happy state of affair and typically something I abhor. To me love is journey’s ending. What I see around me is something inexplicable and cryptic…and not very well explained by me …seems to me that the human values we are born with and which our parents very lovingly nurture in our families is being gradually eroded by the nastiness of the world around us……..but the truth is that nastiness isn’t in the world around us…its inside us… and it is for us to discard to crude and ugly and nurture the goodness which also lies within us……..
I remember someone told me long ago…we are all shades of gray, some more gray and some less…but can’t we strive for white? Can’t we be simply ourselves and hope that it shall be reciprocated in honesty? Can’t we be free of malice, negotiations and treachery…of using and being used…?
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The question of whether we can be white is one which anyone can ask themselves. In my opinion, it is the fear which prevents us from being fully white. Fear of losing something, fear of being ridiculed, fear of being left out, fear of being hurt, fear of losing out on something. Even those who think that they are fully white are often not so. This is because they are often so wrong or have been misled into thinking that their way is right that they cannot see that they are not white. This is one reason for hatred of others and strong opposition of others. When such things occur, deceipt, etc follows...
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