NOT ANTI, NOR PRO

There is nothing more persistent in life than the life itself

I have fallen many times in my life and had to stand up again.

Regardless of what you call success and failure, life goes on.

There is nothing more persistent than life in the life itself

No matter how many times you fall, no matter how many times you rise, you have to survive the life, you have to celebrate the life.

Life is a bouquet of failures, success is an exception that we tend to highlight for our convenience and the sake of rejoicing.

Out of hundreds of seeds a tree scatters, only a few become seedlings.

Very few of them become trees to bear fruits and seeds.

Every seed is a potential tree, and this potentiality gives us zest; a hope to walk in hope of succeeding.

And yet life has a melancholy character to it. As every seed that does not get a ground to react is impotent.

Every success story is the story of rising from failures. We like such stories from rags to riches.

I am well to do right now, but I have seen acute poverty and malnutrition in life.

Those were the terrible days while suffering, but the reflection of it is blue.

We like to romanticise the ideas of failure and disparities in life.

They give meaning to the success and abundance.

We would lose interest in success if failure is taken out of the equation.

If everyone becomes successful, success will become boring.

Hence it is a beautiful thing that everybody defines success differently.

For someone making ends meet can be success. For some having a Lamborghini in the garage.

And there are few, who are yet to decide and are not able to conceive the idea of success.

That’s fine.

As it doesn’t matter.

As the progression of life is heading towards the one big failure called death.

Which will devour all the success and the palace of happiness.

And yet, we rise every time we fall, until the last fall of life.

Then does the success matter? Does failure hold any significance?

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Said so, People who try to escape this cycle of failure and success, life and death often fall prey to the trap of Spiritual Materialism.

The idea is the same. Only painted maroon.

The stone on the roadside temple is praised as god because it is painted saffron.

At the core, it is still a stone and nothing else.

Our perception makes it God. Our need to find the meaning of life outside our life makes it god. Our ignorance of investigating our thoughts makes it god.

Let the Maroon be a reminder of your thoughts, and let the saffron be the vast emptiness within.

You will be stunned to find out that you are the god who created the demigod.

You are so powerful that your mind is afraid of your power.

It bestows its faith in something else, something external; so that it can survive.

It is pretentious so that no one questions the existence of it.

Ego.

We are so blinded by the Ego mind that we forget ourselves, and give life a chance to celebrate beyond the boundaries of the mind.

We look at the success and conveniently unsee that the success is a potential failure.

We rarely see beyond the murks of success and failure.

We rarely give life a chance. Real chance.

Give it a try.

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I can throw in some thoughts about mindfulness, meditation and self-help Jargon.

But that is not the point.

I don’t want to replace something with something.

Materialism replaced with Spiritualism is Spiritual Materialism.

It is nothing more than “been there, done that”

The goal here is to drop everything, even spirituality.

Nor Anti, Nor Pro.

Give ‘not giving a try’ a try once.

The efforts and trying and the excess of involuntary participation in the meaningless activities will drop.

And so will the Ego will be dropped due to a lack of need to display the occasional success.

To be successful and content in life you need to embrace the failures of life.

As there lies the depth and understanding of succession and life itself.

You automatically start doing things when disengage from the outcome.

And doing becomes the success, not the outcome.

An urge within will take over and you will become the act you are doing.

You will no longer do the things, but will let them happen.

The doer becomes the doing.

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