What is reality? Could there be an alternate one?
If you think I have lost it, kindly FO. If you think it
might be interesting, read on.
The simplest definition I can think of is ‘what is.’
We spend so much of our life trying to change our reality
into something we think we would find more favorable.
How does one change his/her reality?
By taking different actions? By thinking different thoughts?
Huh?
You see, where does it all start? Our lives are a reflection
of our thoughts in many ways. We do what I think and then we bear the
consequences of our actions. If the consequences are favorable, we think we
deserve credit for our actions or if the consequences are adverse, we think that
we deserve blame for making incorrect choices.
However, considering the question:
‘Where do our intentions, desires flow from?’
We make choices. These are conscious choices, which seem to
flow from what we want. However, why the hell do we want what we want?
Why does someone want to be an engineer? Why someone else
does wants to be a painter?
I do not think, no, I am convinced that we do not own our
wants and desires, our intentions, like we do not own our circumstances. We own
nothing. We are puppets in the hands of the invisible piper who is playing a
tune to which we are all dancing.
Abraham Lincoln said, during one of his addresses to the
American nation, ‘The Almighty has His own purposes.’
Our thoughts, our wants an
d desires and choices are planted
in our mind and we seem to think that we made them. Since we do not own our
choices, we do not own our reality.
Albert Einstein’s invisible piper or Abraham Lincoln’s
almighty, does.
Enjoy your reality; there could not have been an alternate
one.
