Thinking Hearts ...: Musings: The best way to live is to wonder why!

Wonder why? thats the best way to live life!... Interested? Read on to understand why?

One day, the wind sees a man who wears a big coat walking on the beach. The wind wants to prove that he is the mightiest force of nature, so he challenges the sun.

He says to the sun, “I am mightier than you are. Let’s prove it by seeing who can blow off the man’s coat. The sun laughs and replies, “Sure, my friend, go for it.”

So the wind starts to blow strongly, trying to blow off the man’s coat. The problem is that the stronger the wind blows, the tighter the man holds on to his coat. After a while, the wind exhausts himself, gives up and says to the sun, “Well, I can’t do it, and if I can’t do it, you can’t do it either.” The sun laughs again, and says, “I don’t have to do anything. I just need to be what I am.” Then the sun quietly rises, the weather becomes so hot, the man takes off his coat.”

Most people are resistant to change; many are like the man with his coat. They wear a big thick coat of negativity, sadness, depression, and unhappiness. If you adapt the method of wind by trying to change them with force, they will hold on to their negative emotion more than ever before. If you want to help them take off and let go of their unwanted emotions, you must learn from the sun and just BE.

This force need not necessarily be that of one individual exercising it on another. I realized it could be our own mental dispositions and prejudices, ignorance which could force us to hold on to superfluous and redundant values. We are all are conditioned to live life as if its a race to be won or a battle to be fought or a guilt to be suffered or a problem to be solved. This is totally in contrast to the "Let go" attitude which emphasis that Life is a mystery to be lived and not otherwise.

If life is a mystery then the only way to recognize it is by wondering. Yes, wondering why? If we look around everything is unique and wonderful and yet as a moron we recognize that there are only 7 wonders in this world. Aren't we super stingy? Has not the wonderer in us died a long back?

I had a 5 hour transit wait time at Dubai Airport and scribbled this blog and the few lines below stressing the concept...

If only we realize that

Life isn't a battle to be won.

Life isn't a race to be run