Stop living a lie.....

You know something ...... life is a long temporary journey taken by all beings. The start point of this journey is birth and the end point of it is death. This is the unchangeable truth that many of us don't want to face or think about. As a result we hide behind identities, that make us feel good throughout life. Have you ever ask your self who are you ? .... or where did you come from ??

Are you really the person that they had named or are you part of something more complicated to be understood. Many will just prefer knowing themselves as the person they have been named. Well, then move back in time and analyze where did you get this identity from ....... Did it come directly from your parents ?? ... Did it come from the cinemas ?? or Did it come from your friends..... Well most will notice that they have copied the identity from one or more of the above environment factors.

Hence nothing was originally ours. So the truth is we are living a lie in this uniform called identity. Many of us wear various identity to get into the good books of others, some even go to the extend of acting smart so that others would respect or look up upon him or her .....However the truth is we can always put a mask on our faces, but if your ugly in the inside you will always be ugly. Don't keep cheating yourself, as you may not realize it now, that you are slowly defeating the purpose of your own life. In my opinion, i feel that life is a learning journey and respect should only be given to those with the knowledge and experience. Well this is the reason why our elders should always be respected. Now, this leads to a very interesting question, Should respect be earned or should it be given to the authoritative? Lets analyze ......

If someone who is younger in age but is wise enough to be correct in a certain scenario attempted wrongly by his elders, should he do the correction or should he remain silent ?? Well if he does the correction his elders will certainly feel that he is disrespectful to them, however if he doesn't do the correction the truth will be lost.

I know what many of you are thinking?? The younger can always correct anything in a polite manner and the elders will except his opinion. Well ask your self this, if the above statement is really true, well if a kid tells you your doing something wrong nicely in front of others, would you listen or even take him seriously ? You would act to listen and praise him at that time, but in the inside you would be hurt and embarrassed. Well this is the ego that destroys the truth from being spoken. It is not your fault entirely, as all beings react this way as this is the same ego that enables us to be clothed to avoid shame. Well, if i was in the similar situation, i would react just like others would, but i would consider the child's opinion to further better myself instead of just being embarrassed. As i truly believe, every one person we meet will teach us something important in life and that teaching will enable us to make our life meaningful and further achieve self realization.

Don't keep living life a lie and reasoning out every of your mistakes. Look into the mistakes and learn from it to better your self. A great saint said this, if one does his duty rightfully, he need not go searching for respect or appraisals, it will find him in time. I want to take this opportunity to thank whoever had corrected me so far in life, as it is because of you i am now slowly being able to live a meaningful life.

I hope when you write your comments, you will write about your reaction to someone younger correcting you in front of others and let me know whether respect should be earned or given due to superior ?