Mind your mind

Mumbai is getting back on its feet after the torrential down pour. Life is slowly returning back to normalcy. We all love the normal routine and when there is disturbance we hate it. Change is something all of us hate. The mind gets into the groove and hates to do things differently. We sometimes create stress through mind blocks, paradigms.

I am sure you all would have experienced this in your life. We complain about our exisiting jobs, managers and other things at work. We feel uncomfortable and then start to look our for a dream job. In the meanwhile we trash and badmouth the current work place. After the hardwork we find the dream job and we bragg about the cool boss and perks at the new place making rest of the colleagues jealous.

When it comes to the first week at work our mind is not settled, we miss the old chair, old emails at work, hate the empty cubicle and feel paranoid about the new work place. Atleast a few times we would think about the previous job and appreciated it and feel ex-colleagues to be angels. The paranoid mind signals you to be careful with everyone around you and to be politically correct at all times. In the process of watching our words we end up being glum and reticent.

We call back our friends whom we bitched about, now to let them know how much we miss them and that we should meet outside of work. The honey moon get over and then we start to complain about the dream job and colleagues.

This is a never ending cycle which we all go through. Our mind is a dangerous, devious monkey. It instructs us to do all the wrong things at the right time and makes use lose hair and happiness.
The term happiness is very very difficult to define and is like air. Can anyone touch air? Happiness is the tangibly intangible, it is writing on flowing water. It is a mirage and often leads your mind to make the wrong choice. In a nutshell paradigms and impressions that we carry are the reason for happiness and sorrow. Absence of one is the presence of another.

Will catch you tomorrow with more philosophy........