Ugadi - The festival that celebrates the balance between Sweet and Bitter of life in welcoming a new year .
Our perception towards life is the same as our perception towards Jaggery and Neem - A liitle more Jaggery , a little less Neem … I need a little more sweet and a little less bitter ..
The whole purpose of celebrating the festival is to re inforce the lesson that too much sweet causes a tummy ache , and one can only know the value of sweetness when she has tasted bitter .
So we all come together in a spirit of celebration , and welcome yet another cycle of a mixture of sweet and bitter experiences . This is all very good - all the welcoming , and hoping for nicer things …
What sucks is that we do not account for the bitterness that has accumulated within us over the years . Every year that passes by brings with it a share of bitter experiences , and the effect that it causes in our lives do not magically vanish with the beginning of a new year . It has to be dealt with , and no matter how many more "sweet" experiences we get , the layer of bitterness covering us does not allow us to experience fully .
And we live in a hallucination , hoping to coat ourselves with sugary incidents , sugary experiences .. And wait for the bitterness to vanish ..
We do not live in a culture where forgiving is not encouraged .. Most of the movies that become famous have an element of vengeance in them .. What is selling as reality shows these days is nothing more than the dark side of human nature brought to the fore , where one simply does not forgive a mistake ..
Fighting back is good when you are standing up for something , but to not fight even while having an issue is one of the worst things possible .
When you fight, at least , there the issue is being tackled .. One human being having an issue with another human being is atleast fighting it out and trying to move towards closure .. But simply holding on to a feeling of grudge towards another human being , simply nursing a deep feeling of jealousy towards another human being , and secretly hoping that they fall -really it just sucks that we absorb so much bitterness and don’t let it out in any way ..
I probably might not have made much sense when you combine the article as a whole , but that is exactly how life works :)
A little bit of sense here and there , mostly nonsense - and on the whole a complete platter with all the flavours for those who want to taste fully . The whole point is , one must learn to clean her palette once in a while :)
You cannot taste sweet if you have layers of bitterness all over you .. Let go , forgive , and embrace the new experience as it comes . The bittersweet saga is never ending - simple statistics can point that out !
Ending with a conclusion is boring . So here I end with a question - Probability forecasts that the coming year shows a random pattern of happiness and sadness . How equipped are you to deal with the never ending cycle ?
-Deepika
No comments:
Post a Comment