Hi everyone, welcome back! Last week I examined the importance of grades in our kid’s life/future and how as parents we limit our view on life when we choose to focus only on the grades our kids score and that’s what we end up teaching our kids as well. This week I would like to examine our belief about separation and understand if we really are separate human beings sharing space on planet Earth.
Belief: We are all separate human beings living individual lives.
I believe that this is the biggest misconception we have as humans which is that we are all separate beings because we ‘look’ different from each other and on top of that we also live separate lives or have different ‘journeys’ that we call life. And even though this belief is true to a certain extent; however, I strongly believe it’s now time to re-examine this belief to really understand if this belief has any truth behind it. And the reason we should re-examine this belief is because of where this human race is headed with hatred, wars, blame games, filthy politics and dirty competition! And my hope, as we re-examine this belief is that we are able to find more similarities in being human than the differences we already live with and as a result are able to create more peace within ourselves regardless of what is happening around the world because that’s really the very first step in creating a peaceful world! Each human taking responsibility for creating peace within themselves!!
Alright, let me begin by telling you a story – a story about me. One of the 7.5 billion humans living and breathing on this planet that we call home. I came into this world through another human being who I call mother, was raised with my sister by a father and a mother, went to school and college, made friends and acquaintances along the way, married my husband, work in a corporate job, brought my daughter into this world. The rest of my story has yet to be written because it’s still to happen but I know the ending of it all – the end of this life. So, just like I have a story, similarly, each and every single one of you have a story. And even though our stories are different in what we accomplish and how we accomplish it, what we face and how we face it, what we endure and how we endure it, what and who we love and how we love them, yet, the one thing that stays common is the birth and death. The fact that we come from ‘somewhere’ and then go back to that ‘somewhere’ is the common factor if you look from a very high level. However, if you pay very close attention to what humans want as they go through this process of life, how they think through the ups and downs in life, how they feel as a result of these ups and downs, you will realize we have so much more in common than just the fact that we come from the same place and go back to the same place.
So now, let’s explore our similarities and in the process view this entire human race from another perspective and let’s start from the very beginning of life. Isn’t every human conceived the same way; goes through the same process of incubation; comes to into this life the same way; learns to eat, walk, talk the same way; don’t our parents love us and want us to be happy; don’t we love our kids and want them to be happy; don’t we feel loved when someone does something nice for us; don’t we feel fear and anger when someone judges us; don’t we hate wars and love peace; don’t we all want to live a happy life; don’t we all want to touch someone’s heart and do nice things for them; don’t we all love the feeling of love; don’t we all cringe and our hearts constrict when we see injustice being done; don’t we all want to elect politicians worthy of job their job titles; don’t we all feel the pain at separation from loved ones; don’t we all feel the heart break when we fail; I can go on and on and on..but do you see my point now? Do you realize how amazingly similar we are even though we take on different journeys in life? Do you realize how amazingly similar beliefs we have regardless of our paths in life? Do you realize how amazingly similar our thinking is as a result of these beliefs? Do you realize how amazingly similar our feelings are based on the kind of thoughts we think and what happens around us? I really hope you realize this because when you do, you will then begin to understand that we are all in this together. And when you understand that we are all in this together, you will stop judging other people and yourself for things you did or didn’t do, for the way you behaved or didn’t behave, for the things you said or didn’t say! You will be more kind and compassionate towards yourself and other people. You will be more forgiving towards yourself and others. You will really understand, that because we are all human, we make mistakes sometimes and we will look past each other’s mistakes and stop pointing fingers at each other. We will stop blaming each other. We will stop fighting with each other. We will become more accepting of each other. We will create more peace inside ourselves and that peace will spread outside as positive energy! I really hope I live to see at least a little bit of that world by creating peace inside of me. What about you?
And as always, feel free to leave a comment, if you feel like leaving one. Also, would like to let you guys know that I wont be writing a new post for the next 3 weeks. So, the next post I will share will be on July 22nd and until then live life 🙂
