Composites of life

The aggregate composite of life is to score well in all the individual factors that contribute to our lives.  The two most essential composites are eating and sleeping.  Without them there will be no continual energy to pursue the other composites that necessitate our well being. 

As I stepped out from my past and enter into my future, I realize the importance of food.  Yes, sounds stupid indeed?  We are what we eat.  Eventually we become what we eat.  Our eating habits are such that we eat to satisfy our tongue first and foremost.  Hence we have no discernment between quality and quantity.  Neither do we make distinction between eating and dining.

Our five senses collaborate during the course of our eating. Our eyes and ears alert us that we are going to eat.  The aromatic smell passes through our nose and we open our mouth and the short-lived taste passes our tongue. The process of chewing starts and this is how we eat.

Dining is an experience and  requires a deeper thought and understanding in how and what we choose to eat.  It means giving conscious respect and feeling proud. Why? Because we can only eat that much each time. Hence we must not waste the opportunity to nourish ourselves with quality food and find joy in dining.

If we can do this, we have begun our love journey with ourselves, to love and adore our body with quality and joyful nourishment.

When all is clear

When all is clear, there is no need to fight any longer with ourselves. Life becomes simple and truth becomes clear. All our grievances and imbalances are dictators which should not have any threshold in our lives.

Someone called me and asked me for two favors.  He ended up saying, "I need you and thank you".  This utterance resulted in three hours of my private time.  If I had not been clear in what I need to do and what I want and who I am, I would not have been able to execute the favors without calculating.

Yes it took three hours of my private time and yes, I have given more than enough and now more is asked from me.  Am I going to put a stop to it?  Am I going to rebel and protect to prevent further abuse? 

No, I am not, for when all is clear, I am steadfast and all executions simply flow. In fact, I should thank him.  For he gave me the chance to act on a decision that I made not too long ago. I have decided that I am not going to fill the already crowded mind with more clutter because of any incident that is going to take place in my professional and private life.

I am also aware that I must not let the utterance blow my mind and make me important and indispensable. Self-effacing is the gradual peeling of the many layers of our cumulative persona as a result of external influences and pressure that make us into our personality existence in the society. 

Where is our self?  At one point, we will stop and ask, who are we?   Why on earth are we on earth? Are we here to struggle and fight or are we here to just live. What does it take to just live?  Constant awareness of gratefulness and thankfulness  to be on this earth is very much undermined.  These two empowering words when internalized will overwhelm us gushingly and immediate transformation will envelope us.  We cannot be the same after the encounter.

Painting

A painting is like any human being, a unique masterpiece.  Each painting is never the same even if the subject is. The same painter never has the same mood when drawing out his brushes to paint a picture. Hence each one of us is extraordinary but why then do we feel lesser or greater than others?    

We place a value in each painting  and the value determines how we  treat it. If it has no intrinsic value we tend to discard it with no respect to the painter. This is happening in our daily lives.  We give an object an intrinsic value, and we act accordingly to its worth.  We cling on to higher prestige in exchange for respect and recognition. We choose to see the glory but fail to see the efforts behind it. In short, we want short cuts.

We are our own painter of life. We should rejoice in accepting different paintings as they are.  Because we need them when we travel our life's journey.  Their imperfections help us to observe how we can perfect ourselves.

Life is very dynamic and fragile for it is only one breath away.  We only know to relate life and death with the tangibles. The intangibles, e.g. our breath within us, we do not notice it. But it is the basis of both life and death.  How do we want to give life to our paintings, this depends on our level of appreciation and understanding of how each painting is so unique and extraordinary that even God is in awe.

Freedom

Upon reviewing how my life has developed, I came to a conclusion that each step was a knock on freedom's door.  Many steps were taken and I thought each step was closer but obviously it was not.  It was actually a necessary entrapment  paving the way for reaching out to the inner deepest want to be free! 

Who does not want to be free?  Free to do anything that the heart desires without slavery to the consent and opinions of others including ourselves? Our hearts channel our feelings but our intellect hammers them with logical convictions that imprison our inner harmony.

We came as a free being, hence freedom is our birthright, so to speak. But freedom comes with responsibility.  We avoid responsibility by walking on crutches and allowing the external force to take over our lives and wonder why life is less than wonderful.

The reality is freedom surrounding us.  If we want freedom we should not be afraid to be responsible.  It is as simple as it sounds. In fact all, is as simple as it is.  We think it is complicated because we simply like to perch ourselves at the edge and look at the "what if" for a long long time.