What makes us special ?
We are special. We are needed and we are on this planet for a cause. If, this is what we claim to know, how can we allow any individual to judge our worth as per his or her level of judgement?
Be it air, water, birds, animals or friends everything holds a distinct meaning to us despite what others have told us to believe in. This shows our nature to perceive things has significance regardless of what others' feel about it. Then, why do we allow others to take us for granted at times? Who are they to show us the world through their eyes ? We all agree to these questions but how many of us keep it in mind when the chips are down ? Isn't it?
We can be kept in delusion for a short span of time but not always. To see everything in black and white, we need to awake and feel why we have been made different than any other human being? And why do we usually fail to draw respect and importance for being the way we are? Many of us know how, when and why to welcome and at times simply ignore others' views about our lifestyle. But most of the time we forget : It's our life. And , we have the full right to beautify us with our own chosen things, habits and creatures.
We must learn how to avoid others. We can do it if we strongly believe in our intuition that helps us through common sense. The great spiritual leader Osho said it, not me.
Interestingly, the people who are called "Great", were those who always believed in their strengths much before others reminded them. They listened to others only to know about others' less revealed personality or thoughts. But they never started beliving in everyone's consideration of them.
Success is always possible for each one of us. We don't realise it because we await somebody to come and tell us how much capable we are in comparison to our peers. Isn't it regretful that despite not having any disability, we feel crippled in difficult situations. It is always easy to give up but it takes a real man to take on the problem and view it as opportunity to move ahead of others. We all have basic facilities to support our survival but we have to realise how to utilise it in the best manner. Remember! It is usually the middle class youngsters who reach the top, not the rich man's son or daughter. For, the ones, who face difficult situations they know how to handle them in after life too.
By being open and sharing thoughts with like-minded people we can always enhance our level of understanding.
Many a times even such things do not work. But nothing beats the time we spent in introspection (popularly as meditation) with complete silence and solitude. It is when we learn listening to our soul that we realise how much beautiful and special we are.
We look for others who are chasing some others. We don't realise that the minute we stop running after the mirage, the impossible looking aims turn around and search us with desperation.
We are more important than anybody else around. People may see where we are today but we should look at ourselves where we can be. Let there be no one take us for granted even for day. For, we are a visitor not slaves on a planet, which is overcrowded with billions of people who need extraordinary special persons like us.
We never fail but constantly improve by some degree with each experience. The moment we are born our personality begins getting affected by all those who come close to us. Irrespective of our relations with others, our personality takes shape due to the kind of individual beings and situations we come across. Isn't it something that really makes us so different or special than others?
We just need to feel our extra special being hidden in ourselves before anybody does it for us. There are hundreds of people having minimum education, abilities, looks or support, but they do rise in life. Do you know why ? It is because before anyone tells them about their latent potential , so late in life, they have already learnt it by themselves in their own mirror at home.
Indeed, it is a fascinating planet of possibilities and hope. But we have turned blind to see hope. The journey which should have been celebrating by travelling all alone with full freedom, has failed even to take a start because we are searching for somebody to join or push us. Can there be more foolishness than this ? We are all intelligent more than our academic or professional excellence. We have to just start realising all this sitting alone.
By: Sandeep Datta
Email: expressive_sandy@yahoo.co.in
