Clear Water

As a child, we all have dreams.... We are encouraged to go after them and we have many ways of expressing those dreams.... sometimes through drawings or a poem or music.... Its only as we grow up do we realize that it isn't that simple to achieve those dreams. There are difficulties on the way. But sometimes it takes experience and not realization to shrink away from the blank of naivete.An experiencce that follows realization gives one the oppurtunity to understand the meaning of the mysterious smile that cropped up on your parents face as they patted your head after listening to your "dreams". Initially, one feels shattered.....a number of questions run through your mind...... "How can people do this?" "What am I going to do now?" "What wil everybody else think of me?" At first, the answer to these questions seems impossible....
In today's world, nobody is safe from the evil of these questions. You play host to them atleast once in your life, whatever profession you are in and it is a source of stress. You experience the same shattered feeling within you when people are not honest, complaining, unappreciative. But perhaps the worst is being the victim of rumours and tale-bearing.It leads to a feeling of complete helplessness.It is then that we see and hear the evil of it all.......... there will always be somebody waiting to pull you down.In your school or college or university, its occurence is on a very micro level but it is a taste of what is to come.....Your reaction is anticipated by one and all, and inevitably.. you don't have one. A lot of feelings swim through you..those of anger, betrayal,vengence.....
But you know what, I think it is here that most people go wrong. There is a saying from one of my favourite movies Kung fu Panda:
"Your mind is like this pool of water, when it is agitated it becomes difficult to see, but whence you allow it to settle the answer becomes clear." In the essence of it, we all need to clear our minds. Let go of all the various negative feelings that threaten to engulf it. A lot of people succumb to the weight of these feelings... I think it is imporatnt to realize that what people say can't change your individual. You are doing something because you want to and because you believe in it. If the person was a friend, then they need to relearn the bonds of friendship and after the passage of time you will actually begin to feel pity for the particular individual. Their achievements in life are measured by pulling somebody else down and not throught their own worth. It's really sad if you could actually hear what such a person thought about themselves.If somebody passes around various negative tales about you... don't get affected. Don't even try and get that person in trouble.. feel pity for them and most imporatantly, don't sour the relationship.Maintain it not for anything else, but to keep the negativity away from your life. There is a saying:
"It doesn't matter what you do, the person you are screams so loudly in my ears that i can't hear anything else."
If you are true to yourself, whatever anybody says will have a very short run.So the next time you are in such a situation, step back from it, allow the stillness to return; infact after sometime you will begin to find it funny, if you have a sense of humour.The most important thing to be true to yourself and remind yourself that your life is to be lived by you and not the million unimportant people who surround you and have an opinion on it. If they were true to you they would support you; not pull you down.It is with these thoughts and not the feelings of jealousy, revenge and anger that we should set out to achieve our dreams.......