During one of the numerous internet sit downs I’ve had with a close friend, he said something to me which made me reflect over my own actions. He said his ex-girlfriend had met with a minor accident; it was a case of drunken driving. She had started drinking as a result of the unexpected break-up. That night I lay in bed thinking, "Was I doing the same thing to myself?" After just a few minutes of scrutinizing my actions, the answer was a definite yes! It was a mechanism to cope up with the shock, to set free all those pent up emotions. Although he may have been the instigator, I don’t want to point fingers for driving me to the point where I am today.
I feel content reading the teachings of His Holiness in ‘The Essential’. One of his lessons made it clearer for me. If I take seventy years as my average age then I have another forty five years left and then how many more re-births before I am born a human again? The answer is indefinite. I admit I have been recovering from this emotional setback but, keeping His Holiness’s teachings in mind, I’m not going to live in my past. Wasting even a year out of the remaining forty five seems a big loss. Therefore, today I am putting an end to this chapter. I have no negativity to pass on whatsoever. This has been your decision and I respect it. Period.
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