Happy ending is the last and universal goal in general. We have been making all kinds
of efforts to learn, grow and develop to arrive to state of happiness since
time immemorial. And all these efforts and strides are to lead the life in a fashion of happily ever after, which is all fine, because this is the purpose of this
life, a continuous betterment of essential life experience of humans. However,
When we examine deeply, we find that the living has become very comfortable and
well advanced ,credited to all the technological evolutions of last couple of
centuries, but the essential life experience has been worsening only, and that
is being substantiated by plethora of alarming trends and statistics globally.
So, what has been
going wrong for all these years? Why after being so much trained by myriads of
sources do we always meet to disappointment when it comes to the quality of life experience?
Why do we keep on postponing our happiness? How do we reach to destination of
ultimate joy?
So, let’s begin the
journey by revisiting the life cycle since childhood. We all cherish our
childhood for its innocence, blissed out joy, unconditional love, a deep sense
of freedom, profound inquisitiveness, fastest speed of experiential and
effortless learning, an honest relationship with everything and everybody and
so on. But unfortunately, all these manifestations of really valuable proposition
of life, is curbed when we grow from childhood. We curb a very organic and
beautiful manifestation of life and start giving the methods, tricks and dogged
dogmas to arrive to those real values of life as joy, love, freedom, understanding and success
through other way around. How sad this whole process is, first we curb the
effortless outflow the same traits, for that we aspire throughout our life and
then start cribbing about our fate and luck when we don’t arrive to destination
of these real values of life.
We have been just
fooling ourselves by teaching that by doing something in a certain fashion; somehow we’d arrive to the happy ending. Like they say, that get a degree first and
after that life will be all good and happy, and we get ourselves enrolled in a course to feel that happiness, and what we later realize “that happiness” is all
missing what we would had thought of three/four years back. Then after the self
created disappointment, we again give a boost to ourselves that after getting a
well paid job that happiness will come to me. And again, we feel cheated and
screwed up by life when that J.O.B seems like Juice of Blood, which is being
sucked out of me by my boss or company. So happiness is still missing, then we
start searching that happiness in weekends parties and mindless shopping
because advertisers and marketers are continuously telling that after having
all these merchandises and products, you would feel a great value within your
life, and story goes on in similar fashion, that emptiness still haunts us. And
then, suddenly somebody would advise that get married now, your better half
would definitely fulfill this emptiness, life will arrive to happy ending and
what we realize after the "marriage of this kind", I don’t need to have any say
on that.:)
That vicious cycle is still there,
that vacuum is still sucking us, marriage couldn’t fill that void, so we give a
new booster to ourselves that after having our off springs and their giggles in
our home that void will definitely be filled…and life again slaps us tightly by
saying that, these foods of thought will never fill that void. These thoughts
are not new, it has been practicing by generations, they have been suffering with
the same stupidity and void, still due to default setting and conditioning of
the mind, they have been transferring the same rubbish and suffering to coming
generations unintentionally and unknowingly.
So, now we are in a position
to figure out that, why this chase of happy ending seems unending and how come have we all been falling on the same track of similar kind of role plays which
script has already been written. Role plays is all fine, but that should be
played in complete awareness. And that awareness springs out innately from the
source itself. Life is all about a complete immersion in the moment. This complete
immersion facilitates a real connection with all these real values like love,
joy, freedom, happiness and so on which is present by default within us. We
need not do something to access them. We just need to be available for them. And this fact is well proven by the
behavioral traits of a small untrained child. Its responses are spontaneous,
effortless and with a full force of life. A child either cries or burst into
laughter, both happens with the same intensity. Whatever we learn in childhood
is very profound, very fast and has indelible imprints in our mind and this is
all because of that complete immersion in life.
So, in order to end
this seemingly unending journey, there is only one way-out. If the seed of my
varied actions and role plays is rooted within our valued proposition of life
like happiness, joy, love, freedom, peace; then I need not worry about the
offshoots of those actions. Life is not a means to get an end. The moment we
would start the efforts to shorten this gap of means and end, life
automatically would start manifesting itself beautifully. Means and end must be
embedded within each other implicitly, and then miracles are inevitable just
like an accomplished singer or dancer, for whom, she and her performance are not
separable, she and her craft are just embedded implicitly in complete harmony with the moment and then we are bound
to say..Impeccable Performance!!