Our Intentions Matter

I do not have such calmness as you have, even though I am quite old. I wish I was as wise. One of Bill Gates' quotes sums it up for me "Life is not fair. Get used to it." So expecting fairness, which is taught to us from childhood, is soon being pushed out of life. What is it making me? Somebody who does not trust anybody. So somebody who cannot care either? Perhaps. That is how I see me now.

Like you, Siva, I believe that life is a journey and along the way, we experience challenges and trials. It is with those setbacks that we learn to appreciate life and ourselves. For me, my life is imperfect and I am with it. Few regrets, and a lot of heartbreaks but it sure made me the strong person that I am now. And it made me all the more grateful. I also learned to value simplicity and character.

We can be hit with setback but winners don't quit. I am the cockroach that cannot be killed. In history, there is a man who loses 99 battle with his arch rival. In the last battle, he managed to defeat his enemy, forced the guy to kill himself. He ended up becoming the first emperor of Han dynasty.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Setbacks happen, but they shouldn't ruin your goals or happiness. Such is life for us all.

Everyone comes across setbacks along the way. It's how you deal with them that matters.

A lot of people might agree with you that life has no discernible destination. You seem reconciled to accepting that, but there is an element of you that I feel is giving up to what it suspects is a lost cause there too, in that it seems to me that you think that the answers will never be all forthcoming. To me, any answer is not an answer until they are our own answers, and so the hard times, and troubles, are not our troubles and hard times either, until we own them. The truth is then, I would say, that we are both participant and observer at one and the same time, and so believing this to be so, we must trust that the answers (indwelling or inbuilt) in ourselves will come out to meet us at the right time, even as our inner and outer selves get closer, by each experience of life bringing them more into alignment, but not equally so, because one is merely a shadow of the other. The God-self or soul creates the outer self, which becomes autonomously operating, until it feels for real that the real giant within life becomes life when the real life lives in you, and you stop trying to be that life instead. Life must join to life to be real to you. We must feel its oneness, of which we are merely a part, until we do so. Photo Credit: The photo used here comes from the free media site: Wikimedia Commons. Our roots go much deeper, than what we might imagine them to do so!