You are the sum total of your CHOICES

       

You are the sum total of your CHOICES

The greatest gift and the greatest tragedy of human beings is that every one of us has been vested with the power to choose between any number of choices.

The gift is a real one and great one is because we can consciously accept or reject things ,ideas ,people, and what not! But the greatest tragedy is that we find it extremely difficult tot exercise this power to choose when occasion arises .Our dilemma is always Hmalet-ian one TO BE OR NOT TO BE ... TO DO OR NOT TO DO.. TO ACCEPT OR NOT AND IT CONTINUES as long as life continues. We regret our decisions too often ,and engage in blame games often trying to find out a scapegoat when things go wrong. But the fact is that we ourselves are the culprits for our own suffering.

Everybody wants to be happy but have you ever thought how you can become happy. Happiness is relative and the cause of happiness changes every moment .Just reflect a while to find out when was the last time you were happy. You may vaguely recollect some incidents in the past which made you happy ( and this can happen only if you know what is happiness , which I doubt many of us may not know ).

I know a person( who owned a two-wheeler for a long time )  thought that  buying any car ( a four-wheeler ) will make him happy. He worked hard and entered into real estate business ( he was an employee in  a small finance company).there was a boom and he entered the business on a full time business and money flowed in as he bought and sold lands .And fro his first car ( Maruti 800) he reached a BMW in less that five years . I used to meet him frequently during his Maruti days but I do not meet him in his BMW days as before . But when I met him once he casually told me that he would like to buy a ROLLS ROYCE car !! My jaws dropped not because he wanted to buy a RR but because the kind of dynamic desire a man can have .But the anticlimax is that he retraced swiftly back to a  Maruti Swift D Zire and I heard that he lost somewhere in his journey stumbled and fell.

After one year I happened to meet him in a marriage function and he tried to move away from me but could not. I asked him how he was and he drew me to corner , we sat on plastic chairs and he told me his tragic story  of losing everything due to his indulgence in luxury .I asked him whether he was happy .. he reflected for a moment and asked me back .. what do mean by happiness ? I think I was never neither I am now “ But I am not sure what happened to me and what is happening to me. Nobody asked this question to me till now” "To be frank with you I do not know". He was about to break down when somebody came up and addressed him .

I left him and walked away.

Then what happened..   read on... to be continued ....