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We have the power to assign any meaning we want to the experience appearing before us.
The first lesson in “A Course in Miracles”, a self study course which helps in spiritual transformation, is that everything in life is neutral. The course gives an exercise which goes like-
This table does not mean anything. This chair does not mean anything. This hand does not mean anything. This foot does not mean anything. This pen does not mean anything.
Basically, the idea is to empty the mind and focus it on the present moment.
Viktor Frankl in his iconic book, “Man’s Search For Meaning” agrees with the premise that every experience is neutral. He has added another dimension to this and reminds us that we have the power to assign any meaning we want to the experience appearing before us.
His experience in Auschwitz made him realize that suffering cannot be avoided but our power lies in the fact that we have the choice as to how to respond to it.
His theory of logo therapy states that man’s basic drive is not a search for happiness but one to find a meaning in his life. He reveals how suffering can be endured if one finds a meaning for it. He hastens to add that suffering is not necessary to find meaning in life, only that ‘meaning is possible in spite of suffering’. And if we are the ones who are free to decide what that meaning will be, wouldn’t life be a wonderful exploration?
Let your exploration into the meaning of life start with this book and let it culminate into a yes to life in spite of all its trials and sorrows! And you may find out as Vickor Frankl did that Life is actually looking to you to seehow you will give it its meaning!
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As parents, we put a piece of our hearts out into this world and into the custody of the teachers at school and tuition and can only hope and pray that they treat them well.
Trigger Warning: This speaks of physical and emotional violence by teachers, caste based abuse, and contains some graphic details, and may be triggering for survivors.
When I was in Grade 10, I flunked my first preliminary examination in Mathematics. My mother was in a panic. An aunt recommended the Maths classes conducted by the Maths sir she knew personally. It was a much sought-after class, one of those classes that you signed up for when you were in the ninth grade itself back then, all those decades ago. My aunt kindly requested him to take me on in the middle of the term, despite my marks in the subject, and he did so as a favour.
Math had always been a nightmare. In retrospect, I wonder why I was always so terrified of math. I’ve concluded it is because I am a head in the cloud person and the rigor of the step by step process in math made me lose track of what needed to be done before I was halfway through. In today’s world, I would have most probably been diagnosed as attention deficit. Back then we had no such definitions, no such categorisations. Back then we were just bright sparks or dim.
Pathaan touted as SRK’s comeback has been in the news for mixed reasons. Right from the hype around SRK’s comeback and special mentions his body contours; yet I can't watch it!
The movie touted as SRK’s comeback has been in the news for mixed reasons. Right from the hype around the movie being SRK’s comeback and special mentions his body contours and even more than the female lead!
For me, it’s not about Deepika’s bikini colour or was-it-needed skin show. It’s about meaningful content that I find is missing big time. Not just this movie, but a spate of cringe-worthy narratives passed off as ‘movies’ in the recent past. I feel insulted, and not because I am a devoutly religious person or a hardcore feminist, but because I feel the content insults my intelligence.
But before everything else, I am a 90s kid who in the case of movies (and maybe more) is stuck in time as it wrapped around me then and the gamut has too hard an exterior for me to crack it open!
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