You become what you see…

‘Show me the meaning of being lonely…’ blared his phone. It was 6 a.m. and his favorite song was his alarm tone. Time to wake up and exercise you fatso said his intellectual self. Five more minutes said his emotional self. Technology is indeed a conglomerate of intellectual selves that develop something to satisfy your emotional self. ‘SNOOZE!!!’ What a wonderful option! The very purpose of putting the alarm in place gets spoilt.

This beautiful morning, the alarm rang again… He pressed the Snooze but he couldn’t get back to sleep…
The favorite song of his was at the receiving end of his curse!

It has been a week since his doctor asked him to exercise. It has been years since his dad asked him to. But we always prefer it the harder way. Invite the problems with a red carpet and break our heads and few more parts in the process of solving it. Do we reach the solution? That is an altogether different Question with a standard answer - No!

The alarm has been ringing for a week at 6 a.m. sharp. The man who set it up the previous night is pressing the Snooze a dozen times every morning. And when its 7, all he has time for is to get ready for office – i.e. get more stresses – i.e. get more fat! Because… To him exercise is ‘PAIN’ – All caps, Bold, Italics, Underlined – 50 pt size!!

And Sleep? Is there a better pleasure on earth!!?

But he continues to wonder… How could some people wake up before the alarm, exercise with a smile and have a lovely day ahead, every day in their life.. Leave alone the strangers, whose lives are read in papers and books or those who advertise a treadmill… He was wondering about his own father. May be because the alarms didn’t have a snooze option?!

He goes over his past once… Starting from the rituals in his religion that his grandparents taught, the household chores his mother asked him to do, the sports that his father introduced him to play and the machine that he himself bought for exercising… Everything had something good for his own self. But he never realized it all these days. Hence he needed to enroll himself in a gym and do sit ups in front of a trainee!! You could have very well put ‘Thoppu Karanam’ in front of Lord Vinayaka when your grandpa asked you to! Man loves it sophisticated and making things sophisticated… So he pays and does things which he can do for free !!

As he continued his realization.. The alarm rings again.. The dozenth time.. Its 7 and he has to wake up! It’s a Sunday – a holiday and still he has a stressed up wakening process.. He has to go to the gym… What pushes him is not his will to get better health… But the 12th rule in the Terms and conditions of the gym that states that money will not be refunded for the classes missed !!

Most of us are letting our lives run like this. We know what is correct. We know what is wrong. But we stick to the wrong and are not moving to the right. Duryodhana Reincarnated !! We float with time without taking it under our control and let life decide things for us. But what we have failed to understand is…

Life is indeed a reflection of our thoughts. You perceive to be happy and you are. You perceive to be sad and you are. Whether you think you can win or you can’t, you are correct.

A small inference from Ramayana to sum it up…

Lakshmana saw Rama as a great brother… Today Ram – Laxman are quoted as eg.s for the best brothers…

Sita saw Rama as a husband to whom she has to be pure and truthful… Today women want to be a Sita to their husbands…

But the monkey saw Rama as GOD…..eventually became one… And we all worship him.

You become what you see …

Love
Ganesh R