Problems in Life

There are problems in life all through.

At least that is what we perceive life on earth like.

We live life like a challenge to struggle 'for' as well as 'against' it.

Why do we do so?

What is it that gets it done out of us against our own self as such?

Or do we take problems as something coming from somewhere outside, targeting to attack us as if determined to make our life a hell?

At times we feel it is the wrath of the gods intended to punish us for our sins committed.

At others we take it as a conspiracy of the forces of nature working against us.

At still others we get indulged into the challenge thrown up to us by our fellow human beings whom we consider to be our competitors and, hence, our potential enemies.

We take life as a challenge and living as a struggle.

We want to win this war.

We want to be successful.

As fast as possible! As soon as possible!! ASAP!!!

And that is what the root cause of all the problems on earth is!

So, does it mean that we should not be successful?

No, I say we should not "want" to be successful.

But how shall we be successful unless we want to be so?

OK, then I ask another question: Are we, right now, not successful?

If you are to die right now, right at this very moment; what will you take your life to be as - a success or a failure?

Any answers?

I know, people will not out rightly reject their life as a failure, nor will they out rightly accept it as a success - they will always remain in a gray area as far as perceiving and assessing their achievements is concerned.

But they will certainly like to be more successful than they are today.

Why?

Up to which point!

Where is the end?

Nowhere till death!

We, perpetually and perennially, want to be more and more and still more successful till we are alive.

Only death parts us with the want of success.

This want of success never lets us feel fulfilled in life.

We always keep feeling lacking or missing something inside.

We develop an inferiority complex in our psyche, and live our entire life in company with this complex of ours!

Everything that comes our way feels like a challenge to us.

And that is what our whole problem on earth is.

We take almost all the things as tension in life.

And even if we do not take some of them as such first, we very soon and very efficiently turn them into tension in no time at all!

You may disagree with me saying that there are real problems also, coming to us in life, to be fought against in order to solve them efficiently.

But I say, they are only mental constructions.

Whatsoever comes to us in life, can either be taken either as tension or as no-tension.

I refuse to take tension.

I take whatever comes to me, but not as tension.

I simply take them as what they literally are.

So my headache is just an ache in my head, and not a tension unto me.

I just do not attach a tag of problems to these things that keep coming to me in life.

So, I welcome them.

For whatsoever they are!

I am ready to do whatever they want me to do; I am ready to be whatever they want me to be!

I am not in a hurry to be successful as soon as possible! ASAP!!

I simply laugh at what others take as problems on earth.

Simply because I can afford to laugh at them!

You too can!

Everyone, in fact, can!