Life Understood

The time is ripe.

It is time to pluck the fruit of existence.

Everyone goes through a stage when they transform the, "What does life want from me?", into the, " What do I want from life?"

In simple terms, we transform our confusion into a realilty.

(We could clasify this as maturity.
But for the writers' sense of pride, we won't.
We will instead classify maturity as reaching an understanding that surpasses ones own dimensions.
And classify the above stage as reaching an introspective level in self understanding.
Maturity is an outlook, while this is an inlook.
O.K. We got that straightened out, now, let's continue. Thanks. )

We are all extremely confused at one stage in our lives.
Who are we? Where do we belong? What will become of us?

We somehow direct these questions to an unknown source.

We speculate, to whom did we ask these questions?
Is it to G-d, to our parents, to our leaders?
We go through everything. Every religion, every type of music, every comedian, etc.
The list goes on...

Then suddenly we realise that we have directed these to our innermost self.

(Some people will say that this is G-d.
But we don't need to discuss this today. )

Now that we finally realise that it is to our essence we pose all our querries, we have done most of the searching for our answer.

For we have now cut off everything from the world around us, and all we are left with is ourselves.
Then we can analyse who we are.

Who are we?

Man is not a product of his circumstance.
It's debatable, I know, but for the point I want to make we will conclude thus.

The one true thing that seperates man from all other mammals is the ability to choose his reaction.
What does this mean?

Man can talk.
So what? so can a parrot? All animals have a language, you ask ?

Ahh !! Man however, can talk to his subconscious.
This means that man can analyse his actions. He can analyse what caused his actions and he can analyse what his reaction should be.
Man can think to an extremely introspective level. Talk with his soul.

This is the power of man.

Let us analyse this further.

Every one of us is a product of our nature and nurture.
Our nature in a way defines how we get nurtured.

It is in the power of every person to influence his or hers own circumstance.
For instance one child that was abused to the worst degrees can somehow rise above his victimisation. This proves the power the child has.
Yet one child may not, and the child sinks into the mire of believing that they are a vicitm of life.
A victim of circumstance.
It is obvious that coming to a level of self influence is not accesible to all, certainly to children and only exceptional people can overcome such trauma as children.

By not allowing our conscious self to be afflicted by such tremendous pain, we rise above the world.
Even though most of us were not subjected to horrors in our childhood, we do not have to wait for any trauma do understand this power that is in our potential. We can still apply the same rule to our own lives.

With this power we can start to direct our lives, instead of our lives directing us.
When we decide to take the reigns that have been placed into our own hands, then the transformation begins.

We are no longer on the verge of despair we are now on the verge of triumph!!

It takes literally, 2 seconds.
And the triumph we can experience is infinite!
We tap into a goldmine of understanding and the potential outcome is immense.
Yet as we are only human and only our potential is infinite, it is an emotional struggle to learn from our understanding.
However, at the same time, this struggle is also what characterises us as such huge individuals. Without the struggle there would be no victory

What we become is ultimately who we are.

So who are you?
Where have you struggled today?
What have you overcome?
What have you life altering changes have you made?

You know it's funny how no one likes someone who doesn't struggle. He could be the most perfect person on the outside, nothing bad. But he will be hated, and envied. It is a pity.
However everyone truly struggles, some people hide it not to seem vulnerable.
All men will always have their tests.

And that is our purpose.

The struggle will go on!
Time to embrace it.


Good luck!