There were strong winds and rain last night and it was gloomy for the whole day. I was busy with my work the whole day but this nagging thought in me and urge me to share my experience with all of you. Life is a big routine from the moment I wake up and from wearing my stocks to driving to work including facing the massive jams from the many cars driven by the people to work due to the gloomy weather.
I told my wife this morning while wearing my stocks. Day by day, life is a routine and before she gets out of the car to her office. She told me that we should not stop working because we will get senile and useless. But , what about doing something different ? How many more years can we bear the work ? Even doing yoga three times a week becomes a torture. We used to enjoy it and now, it is getting strenuous and painful. Are we having a good life ?
It is so difficult to decide. Work or no work ? How are we going to spend our time ? Travelling ? How much can we travel ? Look at the KL Aunties shuttling from KL to Penang and Penang to KL and losing their beauty sleeps. For us, waking up in the morning with big red eyes is also a torture. The only interesting thing is the opportunity to challenge our mind during the working hours and time passes so fast. Yes, this is Tuesday and it is gone.
I remembered an old song , Life is a circle. How true ? Every routine is a small circle and every small circles make a big circle and round and round, we go. Finally, ending from where we start until we fall dead. Can we be different ? Changing our routine every day ? Our mind is set for routines and we get into the comfort of living in routines. That is the comfort zone. To move out of the circle, there are plentiful of uncertainties and uneasiness. There is a mental test which some psychologist use to test our mind sets. They painted one door black and another door white and they let a group of participants to choose. What do you think is the outcome ? Behind the white door is a pond full of shit. 99% landed with the shit in their face. Why ?
From young, all of us have been taught during school days, in books and in conversation and in advertisements , white indicates righteousness, indicates goodness and indicates safe and positive way. This consistent drumming of this message presets our mind set and that is why , we land in the pond of shit. This is also illustrate in the mouse test where the mouse is taught to ring the bell when it becomes hungry. If you feed food to the mouse when you hit the bell each time and through a period of time, this message is embedded in the mind of the mouse and they will good for food at the specific time and will even to the extend of ringing the bell for food.
Human’s mind is predictable and controllable. Like in the example of the terrorist suicide squad. They have been taught and program to think that if they kill people in the Jihad, they will go to heaven and have 74 virgin wives, they will kill at a command or signal. Why 74 virgin wives ? How can you make use of it and before you finished, you will die a faster death.
So, break away from this thinking and work against your mind set. Every thing you do is not your choice or your decision. Please be aware of this choice.
Namaste.
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