Have you ever reached a point where you no more recognize your life to have been the same to what it previously was? All of your experiences would seem unreal and alien, disconnecting you from all that you thought you belonged to. Alienated from the world around you, from thoughts and talks that no more matter, you arrive at crossroads knowing what path not to take, and at the same time, not realizing where to head further. This stage of half baked clarity is the most elusive to the human mind, manipulating it to take a dangerous route if not aware, or motivating it to tread a journey of fulfillment and joy, when chosen rightly.
Millions of us today are standing here at these crossroads, waiting to walk along the road ahead, or maybe hitch a ride! Some are gifted enough to drive, but that's not to be judged for it could be a wholly different journey. If you have dared to step out of the program and see to yourself what's happening in the big picture around you, things may not have to appear so complicated and undecipherable. True, we cannot get all the answers to all our questions, but the reason for concern is the many clues and, sometimes, straightforwardly directed answers that often go unnoticed. This is the time when our previous understanding of the setup starts to fail under a newly formed ideology within us, strong enough to shatter the old beliefs and their influences. But the mind...! Our mind is NOT yet ready for it. It tricks us to believe otherwise, putting us in a jeopardy to not accept either belief, for it has a strongly secured protocol of doing things.
That's right! Our parenting, schooling, socializing, and other interactions from our early childhood shapes us to who we become today. Alas! Many of us might have just outgrown those bodies, but have eventually lost ourselves in the process. We fail to recognize our true essence inside. Every individual is unique just like every leaf on a tree is different. We have designed a super-industry called Society which cuts and shapes all that comes under its purview into a uniformly designed, socially acceptable standard that forms the benchmark to earn something that can be termed as social status. On average, two decades of our lifetime is involved in shaping us, pruning the unwanted(?) attributes, and finally setting us up for the showdown.
Just like every log that goes into a woodcutter machine comes back as a rectangular block of timber, we fail to recognize, sadly and repeatedly, that human beings are not like these logs of wood unable to resist. We are twisted out of our original physiological shapes to become something else that is not encoded in our genes. In simple terms, we are all reduced to an all-conforming sheeple society that looks down upon one of its own with red eyes when an attempt is made to wander off to explore what's on the other side, to be abandoned in the end. Do you see my point?
Abandon all that you thought previously was right for a moment. Deny all of those dogmas and beliefs and rules and laws for only a moment and imagine yourself untied off a hundred such strings that kept you down to the ground all these days. Only for a moment! Now. In this moment, you will feel a lightness and freedom you never would have felt before. At this moment, you are not your parents' ambition or your teacher's pet or your lover's favorite or your organization's top employee or the head of your community or who ever that you thought you were. Absorb this none-ness completely into you. Feel the freedom within! Feel the infinite possibilities for your evolution and a boggling number of self imposed roadblocks that we assume to really exist hindering our progress in the longer run. See yourself devoid of all that for that moment and become it.
Now you may come back to reality. You may resume your normal life, listen to your guardians or elders or the authority, go back to the same routine, and just be 'yourself' again. But I promise you, this second instance of assuming your defined role is not gonna be the same as the first! The brief moment of separating you from the everyday routine sparks up the dilemma we earlier discussed about, leaving you perplexed each time you bask in this mindset. And believe me, this new mindset is powerful enough to sweep you off your old ideologies and make you start to question the happenings around you - be it personal, professional, political, religious, and even spiritual.
I'm no spiritual leader to preach anyone to do anything, but as a fellow human being who is on a road that seemed equally appalling to me when I first set my foot on it, I would recommend this perspective could change your way of seeing things, or, for the worse, not. Open yourself to an experience you've never had before, for you'll never know what lies within its interiors. Be ready for a shock that could disillusion you for life if you persist, and yes, it is a risk worth taken. Good luck!
Millions of us today are standing here at these crossroads, waiting to walk along the road ahead, or maybe hitch a ride! Some are gifted enough to drive, but that's not to be judged for it could be a wholly different journey. If you have dared to step out of the program and see to yourself what's happening in the big picture around you, things may not have to appear so complicated and undecipherable. True, we cannot get all the answers to all our questions, but the reason for concern is the many clues and, sometimes, straightforwardly directed answers that often go unnoticed. This is the time when our previous understanding of the setup starts to fail under a newly formed ideology within us, strong enough to shatter the old beliefs and their influences. But the mind...! Our mind is NOT yet ready for it. It tricks us to believe otherwise, putting us in a jeopardy to not accept either belief, for it has a strongly secured protocol of doing things.
That's right! Our parenting, schooling, socializing, and other interactions from our early childhood shapes us to who we become today. Alas! Many of us might have just outgrown those bodies, but have eventually lost ourselves in the process. We fail to recognize our true essence inside. Every individual is unique just like every leaf on a tree is different. We have designed a super-industry called Society which cuts and shapes all that comes under its purview into a uniformly designed, socially acceptable standard that forms the benchmark to earn something that can be termed as social status. On average, two decades of our lifetime is involved in shaping us, pruning the unwanted(?) attributes, and finally setting us up for the showdown.
Just like every log that goes into a woodcutter machine comes back as a rectangular block of timber, we fail to recognize, sadly and repeatedly, that human beings are not like these logs of wood unable to resist. We are twisted out of our original physiological shapes to become something else that is not encoded in our genes. In simple terms, we are all reduced to an all-conforming sheeple society that looks down upon one of its own with red eyes when an attempt is made to wander off to explore what's on the other side, to be abandoned in the end. Do you see my point?
Now you may come back to reality. You may resume your normal life, listen to your guardians or elders or the authority, go back to the same routine, and just be 'yourself' again. But I promise you, this second instance of assuming your defined role is not gonna be the same as the first! The brief moment of separating you from the everyday routine sparks up the dilemma we earlier discussed about, leaving you perplexed each time you bask in this mindset. And believe me, this new mindset is powerful enough to sweep you off your old ideologies and make you start to question the happenings around you - be it personal, professional, political, religious, and even spiritual.
I'm no spiritual leader to preach anyone to do anything, but as a fellow human being who is on a road that seemed equally appalling to me when I first set my foot on it, I would recommend this perspective could change your way of seeing things, or, for the worse, not. Open yourself to an experience you've never had before, for you'll never know what lies within its interiors. Be ready for a shock that could disillusion you for life if you persist, and yes, it is a risk worth taken. Good luck!
