Times had changed. From rags to riches!
No longer did he need to worry about anything that was material.
That ticket of lottery that he had bought and won had changed his life
completely. He himself did not believe the change of fate. Best of everything!
And more! Beautiful home, most fashionable clothes, cars, and now many
friends at his disposable eager to please him, meet him and do favors . The
years went past and slowly he forgot what it was in the days when he was poor.
And what it was when he was hungry. Now fat, with few businesses, wife and
children he had difficulty sleeping.
The paradox of the situation was that when he had nothing he slept like
a log. His period of struggle, when for every meal he had to earn or there was
no food made him nostalgic now. At that time small moments of time became movement of space and divided
unto itself, an awareness of hunger and being very alive due to that hunger.
Living is a
journey. The path of not having makes one become a possible potential and more
alive. A new goal and next goal.. But when one has everything the complacency
sets in. Learning disappears and the monotonous sets in. Somehow in that
utter tension he was relaxed. And now when he could relax he could not sleep.
Sometimes at the
stage of maximum tension one comes to the verge of a jumping point; that is why
you cannot continue. If you continue further, you may just burst and die. The
optimum point has been reached, now the life energy will relax by itself.
Life brings with
it paradoxes indeed. A lover feeling the pain of separation feels attached to
the love through the pain that one who forgets the love and moves on. The
potential growth in the paradoxical situation is mostly experienced by those
who have touched the extreme of that emotion
We always aspire to have what we don't have..poor definitely and rightly aspire to become rich..But, what about rich...they also want more ...more of everything ..They want more cars, bigger house, name and fame. But, this is one way street..you can't go back...and there is no destination also.
ReplyDeleteEven Kings were not satisfied..they wanted to enlarge their empire.. King Alexander wanted to conquer the world , but met his grave on the way back...and both his hands were flung out of the coffin to show the world the futility of all this. So , best way to live life to have gratitude and feeling of abundance ., having a sense of fulfillment, contended heart...What we can ask for...It is abundance of love , affection ,
you are absolutely right Rakesh ji
ReplyDeletethat was thepoint that I was making..
that in the pursuit of happiness we never have enough
but
happiness is inward and inside