Life is a strange experience which the vicious, the daring, and the humble have all equally failed to unravel fully. Come to think of it, there is no need to work for understanding everything.
Understanding is limited to the human phenomena of the mind, and the competencies of the mind are limited by the brain cells, nerves and more of the human body. The limitless cannot be comprehended by the definition of what is basically limited. The philosophical component of it is that one has to focus on the positive elements of life.
Focusing on the positive elements is not just a strategic choice but an insightful recognition of the facts of life.
This needs to be understood.
There are schools of thought on this planet which believe that all elements of one’s experience are a result of one’s karma at times of this life and at times of other lives of a preceding variety. Not everyone believes this because many believe that there is only one life and hence there is no antecedent. This cannot be the place to resolve this debate.
However, one thing is clear, if anything can be clear, it is that life is always a mix bag where good things happen, value neutral things happen, and bad things happen. Their ratios are unknown, and the patterns are equally difficult to decipher. What remains clear, however, is that the nice things that happen in life are interspersed, with some of the things which are not so nice. Hence, what is necessary is to realize the transience of the experiences of life. The bad things or experiences do not last and nor do good things or experiences. If one waits long enough much of it changes.
Whether this is the law of karma or not is a question which need not to be given a definitive answer here. The important thing is the realization that it is a cycle.
This is the window where positivism needs to walk in. If one is positive, it leads to better management of blood pressure, and better management of the secretion of cells and glands. This needs to be understood at a basic level beyond the standard medical jargonise.
Focusing on the positive, therefore, is a sensible approach with rich dividends, which helps constructive approach and better management of one’s energies. This is not a philosophy resulting from resigned approach, but a practical way of understanding reality.
Hence, the mind becomes the ‘controlling’ agency, and rest follows.
Unfortunately, our training, learning, and education do not adequately seem to recognize this, and indeed encourage an approach which only helps to make it appear as if randomization of randomization is a law of life. Perhaps someday, with the wisdom and the need, this randomization would have been reduced to some degree of predictability.
What is not so clear is why predictability must become the be-all and end-all of human effort? The problem is not that one wants predictability; the problem is stress points when life does not follow the path one would want.
Be that as it may, it is important to realize that thinking positively is not just a desiderata; but the only logical approach to reality. It need not be lost because the mind may be weak and the will may be in-firm. The long and short of the proposition is simply this: face life as it comes.
There is and there will also be space for action, initiative, and enterprise. Even if the immediate results of action do not come in, they would have created habits and patterns which can only do the person concerned and his energies, a lot of rejuvenation and focused positivism. This is not a small gain. But Alas, it is something which behaviour a list do not adequately talk about and very often lose it which is psuedo rationalism or plain idiosyncrasy.
It is about time that some of this was designed into training programs and orientation protocols which can be followed with their designed approach to deliver results.
