Wednesday, October 28, 2009

You can co-create your destiny

You can co-create your destiny

Take responsibility of your life and learn from the past


Human beings are very rarely happy with what they get. More often than not, be it a spouse who simply does not understand the yearnings of your heart, success which teasingly eludes you, childhood abuse, an unexpected medical diagnosis, a lifetime of chasing bills and their payments. We often find life out of control. ‘But why me?’ is a syndrome of the victim which we perceive ourselves to be. I could have done better and been happier, if I had more understanding parents, if my marriage had worked out, if I was physically fit or more qualified. If the planets had been slightly more favourable. The list is endless!!



We remain mired in this play of “ifs” and “buts” until one day there is a turning point and one realises that one will never be happy in a thousand years if one always is going to need something external to ones self to fulfill and make one truly happy. When we become extremely determined to get out of the endless misery of discontent and powerlessness of the victim mind set, we question life’s laws and justice and search within with the torch of an honesty, which initially digs out the dirty nooks (greed, jealousy, anger, selfishness) and then also illumines the strengths.



You also discover or uncover a theme or pattern in your life. Some of us have a habit of getting attracted to those who are insincere and unfaithful. Some are accident-prone and others are ‘failure-prone’. A person with a clawing parent often ends up with a clawing spouse. Generally a person who goes for a remarriage without having allowed the lessons of the first marriage to sink in and transform, repeats the flavor in the second marriage as well. Some go job hopping and others find themselves at eternal loggerheads with authority figure – be it father or boss. Another person may have a life pattern of always encountering a person who is demanding and possessive. The tune of the theme song is so familiar, only the lyrics slightly change.

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