I have a question….

Friends, i have a question. It is not something i want answer for, it is not a question that needs an answer. In fact, this question has it’s power unless you do not answer it, but it has power if you mull over it, roll it between the chop-sticks of your brain unless you know what the answer should be. Itn is a life-tansforming question, but you have to live in the question, keep it with you always. Don’t try to ignore it, if you can answer it you are going in right direction, but if you have to cook something up to answer it, you may need to re-focus and re-consider the path you are taking.
Do you know that this is the only life you are going to get? Even if you believe in the law of re-incarnation, the only life that you are going to be aware of? If you believe in god, this life is the best gift he had to offer to you, and if you do not, this life is the most precious thing you possess, the means to achieve everything you want. It is the only thing that you have that truly belongs to you in real sense. It is something that only you are accountable for, you want it or not. I am sure that till now i have not raised any question that might leave you stumped, or made any point that anyone else cannot arrive after five minutes of serious thinking.
Now i want to ask you, if you are aware of value of life, if you know that what moments of life you have spent are not going to come back to you no matter wat you do, and if you are aware of the fact that only you are ultimately going to be the person who gains or suffers from whatever happens in his life, why is it that you waste your life worrying over things? Did not understand me…. Answer the following then… What logic do you follow when you allow yourself to be disturbed by what someone said to you at work? What makes you deprive yourself of a good night’s sleep over a fight you had with someone? What makes you go into fits of depression, loneliness, worthlessness, etc. whenever you face an unwanted, yet unavoidable circumstance in your life? Have you realised that the hour you spent going berserk at what your husband said could have been well utilised in something productive? All i want to tell you is that you have a choice for every moment you live, every breath that you take, every thought that comes to you(yes they do not keep cropping up on their own, as many people would have you believe, you will get to know how to avoid them as well, keep reading my articles), it is upto you that whether you are ready to realise this fact or not.
I will give you an example. Visualize that you are in a very bad mood, feel the anger, hatred, revulsion seeping through you body. Easy, isn’t it? Now, smile!! Don’t ask me why, don’t look at me for reasons, and please don’t exhale in exasperation. Smile without any reason. You will feel yourself losing track of your negative thoughts. Now try to think of smething good. It does not need to be related to your current problem. It could be a treasured childhood memory, or something you would like to do that you think would make you happy (No need to tell me, keep it personal). Now keep thinking of these thoughts for five minutes. I can guarantee you that after this you will be in a considerably better mental state and you will be able to tackle the problem more effectively. You may even get to take a whole new approach which you may have neglected hitherto.
What i want to tell you is that it is your choice that makes your life. You can choose to make whatever you want of the moment you are in, and life is nothing but a succession of moments at your disposal. I would like to end the discussion with a beautiful thought i happened to come across a few days back… “What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: ‘This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more’ … Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: ‘You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.”