Our perspective towards the world outside

Abstract

Dealing with people, emerging situations and temptations that arise in our mind is a life time challenge for many of us. While we have every intention not to pick up an argument or fight with people on some issues we often get trapped into this and displease others. At other times we get involved in certain situations that put us in a spot. There was no reason to take sides in an ongoing tussle between two people yet we get involved. We even take decisions and make commitments in the process on an issue in which we must have simply kept quiet. There are occasions in which we get tempted on something which brings us trouble later. It may be as simple an item as an attractive eatable on the road side hotel which leads us to indigestion and fever. A new gadget could have lured us and we would end up paying a hefty amount to buy it. A little later we find the gadget not as attractive and useful as we thought it to be. In all the above situations our mind also gets spoiled in the process and we regret about such happenings later. For many of us these events do teach us some lessons in life but only momentarily. After a few days, the resolution we took not to get caught in such events in the future goes for a toss. We end up in a similar situation again and this process goes on and on. Is life such an uncontrollable sequence of events unfolding day by day and repeating in regular intervals? In order to know what the way forward is we need to first develop an understanding of the “world outside” and the nature of our interactions with the world outside.........