I am a pretty religious person, or at least i'd like to think that I am. Not because I staunchly observe the rites and rituals of it, but because religion as I know is something which we can't separate from "the others". Bear with me, I'm coming to the point soon...
We focus a lot in making our lives easy, or easier; and to do this, we tupperware everything. We have the physical tupperware, the emotional, mental, spiritual etc.
And once we think we have everything covered, we then zoom in into each of the tupperware, and look for ways to better ourselves in the said area. Most obvious examples, we improve physically by exercising and eating right, emotionally by attending self help courses, reading motivational books etc, spiritually by having faith, praying, and performing the respective requisites. Very close to the point now...
When we consciously think of ways to improve in these areas, we will slowly tend to do for the sake of doing, to just want to check off the things we've done, so that we will see ourselves as having accomplised something, and feel good about it.
But this does not prepare ourselves one bit to the things that matters. We think they do, after all we ARE tending to the things that are important to us. Remember that the things that should scare us is not what's in front of us. These we can actually handle rather simply (another topic for another time). It's the thing that hit us out of nowhere, that just make our knees weak, hearts pumping, adrenaline rushing. These, not many are prepared.
to be continued...
We focus a lot in making our lives easy, or easier; and to do this, we tupperware everything. We have the physical tupperware, the emotional, mental, spiritual etc.
And once we think we have everything covered, we then zoom in into each of the tupperware, and look for ways to better ourselves in the said area. Most obvious examples, we improve physically by exercising and eating right, emotionally by attending self help courses, reading motivational books etc, spiritually by having faith, praying, and performing the respective requisites. Very close to the point now...
When we consciously think of ways to improve in these areas, we will slowly tend to do for the sake of doing, to just want to check off the things we've done, so that we will see ourselves as having accomplised something, and feel good about it.
But this does not prepare ourselves one bit to the things that matters. We think they do, after all we ARE tending to the things that are important to us. Remember that the things that should scare us is not what's in front of us. These we can actually handle rather simply (another topic for another time). It's the thing that hit us out of nowhere, that just make our knees weak, hearts pumping, adrenaline rushing. These, not many are prepared.
to be continued...
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