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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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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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