Which one first?
Is you come first? Or Brands come first?
One of my cab met told me, he wanted
to buy some sport wears, as he wanted to go for sports or a walk.
By hearing those words, I shocked
for a minute! Where we are heading? Who is ruling us? Who is defining what life
is?
Many times I wonder by seeing ads
in TV and other Medias, they are making their brand is must to lead our life…
Is life come first? Or brands
come first?
One day if anyone go for a walk or
a jog with bare foots in a park or a field, people may create very embarrassing
movement to that person, who walks with bare foot. Assume if walk, jog, or sports really need a branded wears, and
in that case 90% of the poor population should stop their sports and physical activities.
Reason they can’t buy them and those are expensive.
Just go back to your olden (early
age) days, how you played in mud, how you played in sand, with bare foots, how
you enjoyed your days when you directly connected with mother earth, whereas
now; many of you go with covered branded wears and shoes, you go with Pedometer, Fitness tracker watch and
many other devices.
In childhood did you ever counted
steps you walk? Did you ever counted jumps you had when playing? Did you ever
counted hours you sleep? Did you ever counted glasses of water you drink?
In your childhood above counts were
not there? Whereas you are living real life, you enjoyed every movement of it. That
made you to be happy, healthy and Blissful!
What is happening now? I’m
noticing that education and knowledge is killing us? For every action you do;
there are some pre-determined steps you need to follow, who created these pre-determined
steps? These are created by someone or some company or a brand.
Like DNA, every life is different
and unique. How this pre-determined steps fit into everybody, what non-sense is
going on with the current generation.
Someone in some country sets a
rule, you need to drink 6 glass of water in a day, and this news goes global,
all so called educated idiots following it! How this is possible 6 glass of
water is same for the people who live in Sahara desert or in Antarctica. You need
to drink a water when you feel thirsty, you need to have sleep when you get
sleep, if you don’t do this, and you are going against biological and natural rules,
which directly invites many disease to you.
All these people are setting
rules to the life, with these rules. What is happening now? You are scared a
lot about your life, your scariness is a business to others, companies and brands?
If you follow any so called intelligent
or research rules, I’m sure that they will drive you mad. Let me bring one
story: (Ref: OSHO: The Philosophical Frog and the Centipede https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69ajDYBUsuo
)
A centipede is just going for a morning
walk, centipede has one hundred legs, a frog looks at it, it could not believe
his eyes, it blinks his eyes, and it looks again, hundred feet’s! How he manages?
Which one to raise first, than the second, than the third, than the fourth, one
hundred legs? If you forget the number, you will be caught into your own legs
and fall down!
Frog rushed and stopped the centipede
and asked; I should not stop you on the morning walk but very philosophical question
has arising into my mind, which I can’t solve, I’m just a frog you know? Only
you can help.
Centipede asked what the problem is.
Frog explains him, this is the problem I saw your hundred legs, I counted them,
and the problem is.. How do you manage!!!?
Centipede said, I had never
thought about it. I will try and see, how I have been managing, I never thought
about it, I really never looked down and counted the legs. It says to frog. You
are great! You are a mathematician and a philosopher.
And centipede tried and tried, he
fell immediately all his hundred legs entangled into each other, he was very
angry at the frog and said. Never again ask such questions to anybody, keep
your philosophy to yourself, you idiot I have been managing my whole life and
not only me, millions of Centipede are managing perfectly well, nobody has
fallen like me, but now I’m afraid, you have created such a question in my
mind.
If I don’t get rid of this question,
I may not be able to walk at all. Now tell me how to get rid of this question?
Frog said; I don’t know, I myself puzzled, I asked to enquire you, because you
are an experienced person, every day you go for morning walk, if you can’t
solve it. How can I? I’m just a poor frog.
Imagine what happened to
centipede afterwards? That his whole life must have become a mess. Again and
again the question would have come to him, and hundred legs am I putting right
leg in the right place?
Don’t be guided by fixed ideas,
experience the life as it comes, why don’t you go for walk or sports with barefoot, to
feel the touch of soil, earth, grass and go with normal clothing’s to feel the
breeze, air and wind. Try to live your life as natural as possible, like a
river. River never worries about its flow, it flows on rocks, it flows on sand,
it flows on trees and it flows on everything it gets in its way. It never scares
and cares.
I’m not saying you need to avoid
brands, my only concern is brands should not limit your life and your actions. Many
youngsters are crazy on brands, reasons; current parenting is recommending it. Forget
about kids doing it. So called intelligent adults buying them with loan and
credits, reason; your ego is making you to go beyond your capacity.
When you are having a coffee, it’s
not a glass matters; it may be steel, silver, gold, or any material’s container.
Only question is are you really enjoying drinking coffee?
Author: GCV (Vishnuvardhana GC)
Author Disclaimer:
I’m not a robot to be constant, consistent and complete, I’m a normal human and my blog will be contradictory like director give multiple movies have different opinions on the same subject or different subjects. I flow like a river, I really don’t look for sand, rock, trees, house, and so on. Intention is helping as many as possible before reaching the ocean. I strongly recommend to consult expert’s advice to follow and adopt any methods. The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in your quest for emotional and spiritual well-being.
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