Posted: 10 Jul 2013 09:41 PM PDT
When any work is done as a choice, you tend to enjoy what you do, and when it is finally completed, you experience a sense of fulfilment. That which gives you fulfilment you look forward to doing it again and again and again…
On the contrary, when any work is undertaken as a compulsion, you tend to struggle doing what you do, and when it is finally completed, you experience only a sense of relief. That which gives you relief, you just want to avoid it in the future. Even if you do it again, you will only do it reluctantly.
In how many homes the morning is filled will persuasion to take bath?
People have become reluctant to cook… Haven’t precooked foods, fast foods, frozen foods and ready made foods invaded every kitchen?
People are becoming reluctant to sit and enjoy their eating… Isn’t skipping of breakfast and not finding time to have lunch becoming so common?
People are in such road rage during their commuting… Aren’t the choicest of vocabulary reserved for the road?
Adults are becoming more reluctant to go to their work than their children to their school…
How else do you explain the increase in the number of heart attacks on Monday mornings and the crowds of late goers to office?
If everything essential about life is seen as a compulsion, if everything is pursued as a struggle and if everything is completed with a sigh of relief… how can we improve the quality of our life?
“Oh, there is no difference in my actions but the quality with which I do my actions have changed.”
On the contrary, when any work is undertaken as a compulsion, you tend to struggle doing what you do, and when it is finally completed, you experience only a sense of relief. That which gives you relief, you just want to avoid it in the future. Even if you do it again, you will only do it reluctantly.
People who do everything as a choice are always fulfilled in life and
hence they thirst for more and more of life.
People who do everything as a compulsion are tired of living and
hence they even go to the extent of desiring to be relieved from this life.
People have become reluctant even to take care of their daily chores… In how many homes the morning is filled will persuasion to take bath?
People have become reluctant to cook… Haven’t precooked foods, fast foods, frozen foods and ready made foods invaded every kitchen?
People are becoming reluctant to sit and enjoy their eating… Isn’t skipping of breakfast and not finding time to have lunch becoming so common?
People are in such road rage during their commuting… Aren’t the choicest of vocabulary reserved for the road?
Adults are becoming more reluctant to go to their work than their children to their school…
How else do you explain the increase in the number of heart attacks on Monday mornings and the crowds of late goers to office?
If everything essential about life is seen as a compulsion, if everything is pursued as a struggle and if everything is completed with a sigh of relief… how can we improve the quality of our life?
Please! Let us add celebration to everything that we do.
Let us shift from the attitude of “I must do. I should do.” to “I WANT to do.”
Let every action of ours start as a choice;
be filled with enjoyment and end with fulfilment.
If we have to anyhow do, might as well, let us enjoy what we do.
The disciple asked, “Master, now that you are enlightened, what do you do?” The Master replied, “I draw water from the well and chop woods.” The disciple further enquired, “Before you got enlightened, what you used to do?” The Master replied, “I used to draw water from the well and chop woods.” The puzzled disciple questioned, “There seem to be no difference in your actions, then and now!!!” The Master said,“Oh, there is no difference in my actions but the quality with which I do my actions have changed.”
Remember, there is no way to
happiness.
Happiness is the way.
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