It feels so sad to look around people so hungry for credit and positions. They can stoop to any extent to retain their positions. They can lie blatantly and play any sort of politics to take credit. There is hardly any integrity or character. There is no value in their words or commitment. Everything and everybody is just a use case to these fellows. They pretend to be so much in control and yet behave like beggars. Like a dry hot desert, they keep seeking happiness which seldom comes like a drizzle leaving the desert more dry than before.
It is quite difficult to understand why people make not only their lives hell but also impact the people around them quite negatively. It appears that the root cause lies in ignorance. For example, if somebody has been told since childhood that sugar is a healthy food and he eats more and more sugar and suffers from diabetes. However, since he is not aware of diabetes, he keeps eating sugar and suffers from diabetes. Not only does he eat a lot of sugar but also forces his subordinates and family members to eat sugar.
In a society where life has become so easy compared to a few centuries back, we have so many more means of entertainment, we have treatment and vaccines for almost all diseases, we have painkillers that significantly reduce the pain, the departmental stores are flooded of thousands of varieties of foods, we can travel different countries of the world in minimum time, almost every type of entertainment is available at our fingertips, and yet the world is severely deprived of happiness. People are madly hunting for Gurus to become happy. Somehow a false narrative has spread like a fire in the forest that money and power make us happy.
Unfortunately, it is such a mirage that the more you follow it the more real it appears. Everybody feels that if he runs for a few more years, he will be happy. Parents keep running after the mirage for the whole of their life and by the time they reach their 40s, they feel that they have not been fulfilling their dreams and they want to fulfill their unfulfilled dreams through their kids. Kids become tools. They want to fulfill their dreams through their organizations and organizations become tools to fulfill their dreams. Slowly relatives and friends also become just tools to fulfil the dreams of people. They do not realize that in the process they not only become a hot dry desert craving for a few drops of happiness but also turn their kids into "eternal seekers" who never contended with what they have.
In the name of efficiency and targets, people are deprived of life. The "achievers" do not live their lives peacefully and make the lives of everybody around them hell. They try to hide their restlessness and frustration below the carpet of "achievements" knowing very well that all these achievements have just added to their miseries. I wish more and more people see the futility of this shallowness at an early stage of their lives rather than suffering throughout life and then dying with regrets. However, the nearest of the objects are invisible in foggy weather. Even the strongest of the headlines fail when fog is dense. I wish there were some shower of divine love that fills the hearts of these restless hungry souls with love so that they may love themselves and love others rather than running after the mirage and passing a dictate on everybody to run after that. I wish they realized that seeking brings suffering and love brings happiness. We do not need any money or power to love. We just need that inner connection.
Comments