If all life was a Fairy Tale , we would slog at workplace and get a Magic broom/ treasure the next day.
Ever wondered how different life could have been had there been our fairy tale where we are the happily ever after with smiles in a chariot hiding away behind the heavenly clouds. Whooosh..just in dreams.
We are all a part of a Wonderland , its just we are not The Alice of it. We get into troubles and struggle but have to be our own hero, our own sole savior. The more heroic ones, are the more famous ones today.
We all can make our fair-y world but today it all comes at a cost. At the cost of mental health and happiness Something common to all magical tales was BELIEF- an undying faith of triumph of good over evil. Of course, the tragedy is both these terms "good" & "evil" have become supremely subjective.
However the magic is self belief and it does wonders. The famous rabbit & tortoise story, we know a third person narrative of it. What was the tortoise thinking??In tortoise's head it would have been just pure intent of being better than what he can be. It would have been to challenge the expected & raise the bar. It was apparently challenging what he thought his potential was.
We can create our perfect worlds, fight all odds without being evil or unjust with anyone, if and only if we are just trying to better ourselves than our yester-self. It is very easy to choose a convenient path to fulfill short term goals, but in the long run earnest intentions and efforts always reap positive results.
Life in a fairy tale and in today's life, is still all a game of choices. In those stories there was immense selflessness in the choices made, hence the outcomes were more like a miracle. Today, none of those miracles happen because all paths taken lead to a personal gain. Thus , there is wealth but no peace, there are smiles but no happiness. In everything there is a ME which is bigger than all relationships and all associations.
Miracles did happen then and even now, we just need to be worthy of it.
However the magic is self belief and it does wonders. The famous rabbit & tortoise story, we know a third person narrative of it. What was the tortoise thinking??In tortoise's head it would have been just pure intent of being better than what he can be. It would have been to challenge the expected & raise the bar. It was apparently challenging what he thought his potential was.
We can create our perfect worlds, fight all odds without being evil or unjust with anyone, if and only if we are just trying to better ourselves than our yester-self. It is very easy to choose a convenient path to fulfill short term goals, but in the long run earnest intentions and efforts always reap positive results.
Life in a fairy tale and in today's life, is still all a game of choices. In those stories there was immense selflessness in the choices made, hence the outcomes were more like a miracle. Today, none of those miracles happen because all paths taken lead to a personal gain. Thus , there is wealth but no peace, there are smiles but no happiness. In everything there is a ME which is bigger than all relationships and all associations.
Miracles did happen then and even now, we just need to be worthy of it.
2 comments:
Is it wrong to be selfish for your own self? Haven't we lived that life of selflessness wherein our happiness depends on making people around us happy. But what does that lead to? Somewhere down the line, you loose your individuality b'coz your happiness is completely dependent on making others happy and in most cases by accepting to what others want. So where are your wishes, your dreams, your own happiness? Lost!! And that's where you loose your individuality. And trust me, with that comes frustation which keeps boiling inside you and when it bursts, it's not a happy situation.
Not being critical to your thoughts, just keeping a different perspective!
Hi. Thanks for reading through the blog entry.
The whole idea of selflessness is not for the faint hearts. It takes extreme will to give and not expect. Yes, there would be people ready to walk all over you. But being selfless has nothing to do with letting people take you for granted.
Its the inherent self-benefit that mars people from doing the best that they can. world isnt a fairy tale any more because we have more "I" than "we".
Losing yourself is also a part of actually exploring who you are. :)
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