Life

Sometimes we feel trapped in our brains. The more the brain tries to find a solution, the more we feel trapped and confused. Probably the brain is too focused on what we know. We fail to realize that what we know is just the tip of the iceberg. It's quite difficult for our brain to accept the limitations of its awareness. That's probably the fundamental cause behind all the psychological problems of the world. We get stressed because we extrapolate our present circumstances to our future. We are unable to acknowledge that so many possibilities exist in almost every moment. I listened to the following video by Anita Moorjani sometime back: https://youtu.be/snV0pXF1i8U?si=DhFKi6Ex_HGPKPxm Around 35 minutes into the video, she provides an analogy of a warehouse. Suppose. we are in a warehouse with a headlight, and can watch a few compartments which we have explored so far, or we are presently exploring. We know only these possibilities. Suddenly, the lights in the warehouse is tur...

 I have been visiting many schools, juvenile homes, prisons, shelter homes, and NGOs working for the upliftment of the children, and at the same time, I am a civil servant working in the Income Tax Department, and therefore come into contact with many privileged people having almost everything that many of those children can't even dream of. Yet, I see a lot of spark in the eyes of those underprivileged children and dullness in the eyes of the privileged. What is the source of that spark and dullness? The underprivileged are in a frame of life where they are uncomfortable, and therefore, they have a strong desire to grow beyond that frame. Somebody wants to come out of prison, while somebody wants to come out of poverty. Somebody wants to get a respectable job, while somebody wants to get powers. There is a restlessness within the existing frame, and that's why almost everybody has a purpose and wants to grow. There are a few, within that frame, who have given up. They feel tha...