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Saturday, June 23, 2012

Humility and Gratitude


Of late, I am running into serious trouble.....
I am made to look at the very basics, once again (or is it 'yet-again'...not quite sure... which way it suits aptly!)...
Hardly have I recovered out of the trauma due to that 'lament Vs 'ability to see other's point of view'....
and now this 'somebody' hovering above my mind (most of the time), asks me .. “Can Humility and sense-of-Gratitude” reside in a person exclusively also? (either ways, Only humility, no gratitude, or.... only gratitude, no humility?)
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'What is your problem.... exactly?' I tried to put the ball in back into the other's court....
'Oh!... not about any exactitude.... just trying to see, if there could be a short-cut.... somebody finds 'humility' too hurting, painful, too-large-a-pill to swallow, why not the other one ?... vice-versa..... anyway, forget it... don't try to feign humility about 'I don't know'....' was the subtle 'dig'
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For quite some time, I had been blabbering a lot of abstract concepts, and it is all snowballing back into me ('towards' me... was what I like to look at it , seeking consolation!).... Very wrong to 'assume' that we can afford to play with abstract-concepts.... later on interpret it either way, to suit our way... Didn't work! Karma theory :)
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I have a forum... now!
(And lesser the response, better the safety.... I can postpone... eating my own words!)
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But, ..... I was reminded of somebody who told me.... years ago.... every breath that we inhale, we owe it to those greenery around.... and they await humbly, for our exhalation, which is so precious for their life! (My joy of 'that time' ..... was obviously short lived.... what I dreamt was, even doing nothing.... even as an idly-sitting parasite, .... I was 'contributing' to life on this planet, just exhaling regularly, after every inhalation! Even breathing became a joy (that started off the whole problem... that joy inside..... it asked for more.... 'yeh dil maange more!')

psn (23rd June, 2012)

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