By: Dr. Suman Bharali
In this age of digital revolution and the uprising of information technology, we are constantly bombarded with audio-visual information which impacts our consciousness. Most of the time this information is on either side of the extreme. Either very negative or very nice to believe. These impact the minds of people. The emotion fluctuates in extremes. Some days or times during the day, the mind is full of positivity and we are happy and enthusiastic; at other times we are full of negativity, depression, and lethargy. The normal balanced being is considered boring and unproductive. We constantly want to be like someone else, who shows their best moments or uploads beautiful pictures on social media. But, most of them are showing fake happiness to hide their frustration and failures.
A person has his good times as well as bad times. Not always there is sunshine; sometimes there are wind and rains also. But we see only the best moments of different people and get upset about our own life. The same person doesn’t upload a vacation picture every day but once a while but as a daily different person uploads their picture and moment, we are constantly fed with these illusions of a perfect and beautiful life. Life is a combination of joy and sorrow, hard work and leisure, success and failure. After a long period of hard work and dedication, we succeed and happiness is attained. But we can’t stick to that always. We have to celebrate the moment and move on to carry on with other activities.
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Similarly, when there is a period of setback, failure, heartbreak, or disease we should not worry too much, we need to feel it, analyze it, find our mistakes and learn from them. We should move on, to do the next work or live life by learning from past mistakes which caused our sadness and pain. Nothing is permanent neither sorrow nor happiness. We should feel both and keep advancing constantly. We should not blame and complain about others or the situation and environment. Our life is completely our responsibility. We need to improve ourselves to make it better; nobody else can do it for us. We have to feel our pain, get over it and fight our own battles.
(The author is an MD in Ayurvedic Medicine & can be reached at bharali.suman@rediffmail.com)
