Searching for Answers

Searching for Answers

We all seem to go through the same thoughts regarding life and things in general . I am sure you have found yourself wondering all this too.

Life is indeed so strange.Each one of us seems to go through the same. We don't value what we get,long and yearn for things beyond our reach,extend ourselves, try harder reach higher and when we are there, we realize this probabaly wasn't what we were looking for. Maybe What we had was better.Perhaps that was what we actually needed.But now that is gone, lost forever and what we have received is essentially a mirage that we mistook for an oasis. and then the same elusive search starts all over again.

That is probabaly a man's fate.To run after shadows throughout his life. To catch one only to realize that there are more of them still lurking in the dark and the one he has caught is not the one he was seeking. Why does life have to be a series of regrets? There is a starking difference between what we practice and what we preach. Each one of us distributes pearls of wisdom to sort other people's lives but when it comes to making some sense out of our own lives we all are helpless. When our own troubles come calling, we realize how tough can life be and, despite our best attempts, we can not beat the one who is pulling the strings from above. Ultimately we all are slaves of situations in life and only if you are one of those exceptionally blessed people who are born to change the world can you expect to escape from them. Otherwise the majority amongst us goes round and round in this whirlpool till our spirits have energy left and when even the rarest of those strains die out ! we are left as lifeless beings to helplessly look around as the world just carries on. And then comes the realization that nothing is ever going to change even when we are not around. The world , even our own small world which we think ourselves to be so vital members of, will stay just the same with or without us and, we all take the truth is different ways.Sometimes its comforting, sometimes disturbing and sometimes so terribly upsetting.Everything about our existence is meaning less perhaps.If I am not needed , not required, why am I here in the first place ? Why am I so concerned, so bothered, so restless ? If I am always going to long for things which I don't have, if i am always going to be put in situations which I can't change or help, and if life goes on with or with out me,if my absence or presence, my acting or not acting is not going to change why do I need to try so hard ? why don't I just give up and let the situation take care of itself.Why am I trying to keep things in control when nothing is in my control at all?

And once this realization dawns on you, once you reach this stage, the stage of surrender,everything seems so easy and simple. This is what you needed to do! not do anythingthat is. Just let people and things take care of themselves. Let things happen to you rather than trying to make things happen.Just observe and not act.That way you will be outside the purview of disturbances that come. You 'll learn not to try too hard.