Last day of the year- Truth Bombs

 

Monday, on my Instagram-live I spoke about the need to get up, to see humanity as this beautiful cohesive world. to be aware, to be accepting to coexist.

The challenge in this all is sometimes peaceful existence is inversely proportional to cohesive coexistence. My sister says I use too many big words. Keeping it simple, it would mean, that sometimes lives simply makes it difficult to coexist.

Our lives are full of examples like these strained relationships, politics in workplaces, stereotypes in society, all make it impossible for people to coexist.

Abhay  and Samya in their blogs made a very relevant point when they spoke about gratitude and self-love.  Start with that. With an undying and underlying spirit of gratitude, and kindness towards self. Quite frankly their wisdom came as a surprise to me, I was used to preparing them to be wise Seeing their written work I realized they have been learning faster than I have been teaching them. Let us look at some of the learnings this year, which we learned without being taught.

Be aware-  Most of the times, we are not aware of who we are. We move from one experience from another on an autopilot mode. Being aware of oneself, our belief system helps in understanding our action better.

Sharing- In a world where everything is cutthroat, sharing seems an oxymoron. I like Simon Sinek’s take on the infinite game. His point being – advance a just cause, build trusting teams, Study worthy rivals, prepare for existential flexibility and demonstrate the courage to lead. We used to be taught sharing is caring and now somewhere in the scheme of things we went for the survival of the fittest.

Coexistence- This naturally brings me to the next point. It is much easier to coexist if we learn to share. Sharing is not easy. We have learned to fight for our space. Sharing doesn’t and won’t come naturally. It calls for sacrifice. So does coexistence. Coexistence calls for sacrifice. The challenge is whether we are willing to make that sacrifice now to save our future. Are we willing to discipline ourselves enough so that future generations have a place to grow up as rich and diverse as us? The only answer I get is, we owe it to them. That is my legacy.

For our generations and all to come. Let us move ahead on a road which makes this world great absolute joy.